"Where are the Hadid signature curves?"
In this week's comments update, readers are critical of Zaha Hadid Architects' recently revealed designs for a housing development. More
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"The target population will never use these"
In this week's comments update, readers agree with residents of Paris, who expressed outrage over the installation of minimal, open-air urinals in the city centre. More
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"Hauntingly beautiful"
In this week's comments update, readers discuss whether a proposal for a memorial to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire is appropriate. More
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"Priscilla, Queen of the Desert wore it better"
In this week's comments update, readers are concerned for the planet, and festival goers at Burning Man. More
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"If I buy eight, am I also responsible for feeding them?"
In this week's comments update, readers aren't sure how to respond to furniture formed from a naked body. More
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"My stool has been biodegradable since birth"
In this week's comment update, seats designed by Zaha Hadid Architects and Oksana Bondar divide readers' opinions. More
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"I'd love to see an army of balloons in the US"
In this week's comments update, an interview with Trump Baby blimp designer Matt Bonner caused a stir. More
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"Jenga on the mind?"
In this week's comments update, plans for a pair of skyscrapers caused a debate on the merits of the stacked-box aesthetic. More
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"This is bait to make architects angry"
In this week's comments update, readers are riled up by Christo comparing the creation of his work to building a skyscraper. More
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"This should be definitely rebuilt, regardless of the cost"
In this week's comments update, readers rallied against the suggestion that the Glasgow School of Art should not be rebuilt following a major fire. More
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"This is closer to pollution than art"
A floating sculpture made from thousands of colourful barrels, by artist Christo, sparked a debate over public artworks in this week's comments update. More
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"Where has the ambition gone?"
In this week's comments update, readers are split over the "woven tapestry" design of this year's Serpentine Pavilion by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo. More
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"Artists should just stick to art"
In this week's comments update, readers debated whether artists should delve into architecture, following the completion of Olafur Eliasson's first building. More
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"Buildings like this are masterpieces of architecture"
In this week's comments update, readers gave kudos to a whisky distillery cut into the hills of the Scottish countryside by British architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. More
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"Can the chimney blow smoke rings?"
In this week's comments update readers debated whether BIG's tiny cabin in Upstate New York could incorporate any of the more quirky features of the practice's recent projects. More
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"What's next? Bjarke Ingels will launch a rap album?"
In this week's comments updated readers discussed whether American rapper and designer Kanye West's plan to move into architecture would be a catalyst for change in the industry, or just a marketing ploy. More
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"A narcissist using essays as adverts to win corporate clients"
In this week's comments update, readers were united in their objection to Patrik Schumacher's suggestion that deregulated capitalism was the solution to the global housing crisis. More
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"They are compensating for something"
A near-complete bullet-shaped skyscraper by Kohn Pedersen Fox in Shenzhen generated a debate between readers over phallic architecture in this week's comments update. More
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"These kinds of proposals are almost the fake news of our industry"
In this week's comments update, a concept for a collapsable tower to be used in disaster zones starts a debate about unrealistic architectural ideas. More
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"This will be incredible. Kuma is a material master"
Readers could not hold back their excitement after plans were unveiled by Kengo Kuma and Associates for an aquatics centre framed by black pyramids in Copenhagen, in this week's comments update. More
