"Slap it on the corner of a credit card"
In this week's comments update, readers question whether Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv's redesign of the US Open Tennis Championship logo was aimed at the wrong industry. More
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"How nice, buildings that don't cast shadows!"
In this week's comments update, readers ridicule Herzog & de Meuron's renderings of two "horizontal skyscrapers" on stilts by the Moscow River. More
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"In French we have a word for this – grotesque"
Readers question whether Philippe Starck has lost his touch, following plans for a "phantasmagoric" hotel with a house on its roof, in this week's comments update. More
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"We've come a long way but architecture is still a boys' club"
Readers react to architect Richard Meier's decision to temporarily step down from his firm, following sexual harassment allegations, in this special comments update. More
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"Doshi certainly has the career that deserves a Pritzker"
Readers debate the selection of Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi for the Pritzker Prize 2018, in this weeks comments update. More
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"An iconic film deserves iconic architecture"
In this week's comments update, readers voice their thoughts about the influence of Zaha Hadid on the afrofuturist architecture in new Marvel movie Black Panther. More
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"Turning the homeless into political tools for an agenda dehumanises them"
In this week's comments update, readers are divided over a tool that allows homeless people to earn money by posing controversial questions to passersby. More
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"I hate seeing bad design get attention because it's shocking"
Readers were left shocked and annoyed by the Seeding Finger, a conceptual artificial insemination tool modelled on a hand with an extra-long digit, in this week's comments update. More
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"It's like Nike deciding to drop the swoosh"
Readers are divided over Lufthansa's decision to switch its 100-year-old logo from yellow to blue, in this week's comments update. More
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"People's fundamental humanity and dignity should not be up for debate"
This week's comments update is led by a debate between readers over the significance of sexual identity within the workplace, after an LGBT+ survey revealed that the number of British architects that are "out" at work has fallen. More
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"The language of this will have to change in order to be successful"
Readers aren't happy about the use of the phrase "parasitic pods" to describe a housing concept for homeless people, in this week's comments update. More
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"Housing isn't an architectural problem, it's a policy problem"
Readers debate global housing issues in this week's comments update, in response to a proposal by James Law Cybertecture for stackable micro homes in Hong Kong. More
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"It's like someone blew bubbles in the windows of a postmodern tower"
British designer Thomas Heatherwick suffers criticism for his latest project, a pair of New Towers with bulging windows, in this week's comments update. More
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"This era of architecture will not be remembered fondly"
Readers debate the effects of capitalism on London's ever-changing skyline in this week's roundup of comments from our readers. More
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"We can't afford to house the homeless but we can afford robots to punish them"
Readers reflect on the use of a security robot to deter homeless people away from a San Francisco building, and the resulting backlash that resulted in its removal from the street, in this weeks comments update. More
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"What a bad year for skyscrapers"
In this week's comments update, readers debate our pick of the top 10 skyscrapers of 2017, and what it says about the future of tall-building design. More
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"I'd love to buy this home someday just to demolish it"
An oast house-inspired dwelling in Kent chosen by the Royal Institute of British Architects as the winner of 2017's House of the Year competition came under fire in this week's comments update. More
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"Nice to see a new contender for the Carbuncle Cup"
In this week's comments update, news that a 228-metre-high skyscraper with Matisse-inspired facade patterns will be built in London's Croydon is met with heavy criticism. More
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"No woman who works in this industry is surprised"
In this week's comments update, we recap the sexism row sparked after a survey by Dezeen discovered that only three of the world's 100 biggest architecture firms are led by women. More
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"It's like walking through some bizarre toy village"
In this week's comments update, an opinion piece arguing against the homogenisation of shop signs on a northeast London high street started a debate among readers around aspirational politics and gentrification. More
