"How are designers still making this mistake?"
In this week's comments update, readers are divided over Katy Perry's decision to remove allegedly "racist" designs from her shoe line. More
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![Freddy Mamani's New Andean Architecture in El Alto, Bolivia]()
"Adventurous architecture often gets thrown out the window"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating Freddy Mamani's decision to inject colour and personality into Bolivian city El Alto. More
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"This is everything that is wrong with design"
In this week's comments update, readers are questioning Nikolas and Lukas Bentel's decision to design vision-impairing Squiggle Glasses. More
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"Not everyone's cup of tea"
In this week's comments update, readers are reacting to images of the newly completed Exploratorium museum in China. More
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![Abandoned Turkish chateaus – Burj Al Babas luxury housing development in central Turkey]()
"A nightmarish blight on a beautiful landscape"
In this week's comments update, readers are uncomplimentary about an abandoned housing development in central Turkey that features hundreds of identical chateaux. More
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"Let sex toys be sex toys, shame free"
In this week's comments update, readers are accusing the Consumer Electronics Show organisers of sexism. More
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![Hoxton Press by David Chipperfield Architects and Karakusevic Carson Architects]()
"Praise the lord for David Chipperfield"
In this week's comments update, readers can't decide whether the Hoxton Press towers, by Karakusevic Carson Architects and David Chipperfield Architects, look new or retro. More
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Dezeen's top 10 controversial stories of 2018
This year had its fair share of provocative stories, from a proposal for a gigantic space blanket to an installation that saw Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye sunk in a Danish fjord. For our review of the year, digital editor Karen Anderson looks at the 10 that were the most polarising. More
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"Damn you scientists for messing with nature"
In this week's comments update, readers are infuriated by plans for an experiment to dim the sun. More
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"Love that Denise Scott Brown makes an appearance"
In this week's comments update, readers question whether illustrations of a country home designed by Charles Holland Architects have more style than substance. More
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"While I'm eating, my 3D printer will be printing my barf bag"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating the need for faux-meat foods, following the unveiling of a 3D-printed vegan steak. More
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"Looks like a haunted house"
In this week's comments update, readers are critical of a reflective tower designed by Frank Gehry and Büro Ole Scheeren's pixelated skyscraper. More
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![The Tulip by Foster + Partners]()
"But will it vibrate?"
In this week's comments update, readers are in agreement that Foster + Partners' design for London's new tallest building, The Tulip, resembles a body part. More
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"Relax, it's not a toilet"
In this week's comments update, readers are debating over the placement of the toilet in Le Corbusier's Paris apartment. More
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![La Marseillaise skyscraper by Jean Nouvel]()
"Looks like a bad 1960s tower block dressed in a gaudy Hawaiian shirt"
In this week's comments update, readers are finding it hard to see the beauty in a red, white and blue tower block designed by architect Jean Nouvel. More
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"One of the most beautiful houses I have seen in years"
In this week's comments update, readers can't agree whether Peter Zumthor's Secular Retreat is worthy of praise. More
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"What an ungainly neighbour for the elegant Mies building"
In this week's comments update, readers are convinced that Herzog & de Meuron has designed its Museum of the 20th Century badly on purpose, to emphasise the beauty of the neighbouring Neue Nationalgalerie. More
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"Wonderful stuff"
In this week's comments update, readers are pleased to hear first hand what it is like to live in BIG's affordable housing development in Copenhagen. More
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"Guess this is all just unnecessary PR hype"
In this week's comments update, readers are confused about the shape of a prototype Hyperloop capsule, and blown away by plans for the Wuxi Show Theatre in China. More
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"Amin, it's ugly demolish it"
In this week's comments update, readers can't agree on whether architect Amin Taha's Dezeen Award-shortlisted housing block is beautiful, or ugly and should be demolished. More
