This week on Dezeen, the Maldives revealed its plans to create the “world’s first true floating island city” with 5,000 homes that will rise with the sea. Designed in response to the threat of rising sea levels caused by climate change, the Maldives Floating City will be composed of a series of structures that float
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Elon Musk’s infrastructure firm The Boring Company has opened the first of around 55 stations that are set to be constructed as part of a tunnel network underneath Las Vegas, which will see passengers carried across the city in a fleet of Teslas. The newly opened stop, located at the Resorts World Las Vegas hotel complex,
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Architects and academics including Amin Taha, Vicky Richardson, Peter Murray and Piers Gough have criticised UCL for releasing a report into the toxic culture at the Bartlett School of Architecture in an open letter. The signatories accuse University College London (UCL), which the Bartlett is a part of, of acting “to preserve its reputation” by conducting
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British studio Adjaye Associates has been appointed to create the architectural design for the redevelopment of Liverpool’s International Slavery Museum and Maritime Museum, with Ralph Appelbaum Associates chosen to lead the exhibition design. The £57 million revamp will turn the museum’s existing Dr Martin Luther King Jr building into a new entrance to the International
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Technology company Google is reportedly in negotiations to buy the Helmut Jahn-designed James R Thompson Center in Chicago. Google is planning to purchase the 17-storey postmodern building in central Chicago as an office space for its growing team based in the city, according to Real estate publication CoStar Group. Although the technology company has not
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UK architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has rebranded as simply RSHP following the death of its founder Richard Rogers late last year. From today, the London-based studio will drop the surnames of partners from its branding and be known only by the letters RSHP. It comes after Rogers, who co-founded the practice in
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In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Kanye West’s redesign of fast-food chain McDonald’s packaging and other top stories. The packaging that West designed in collaboration with industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa, was printed onto a brown, translucent-looking sheet, giving it a muted look that starkly contrasts the fast-food chain’s normally bright colours. “Lots of
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UK studio Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has reportedly been hired to investigate turning its seminal Lloyd’s building in London into a hotel for owners Ping An. The studio, which designed the Grade I-listed building in the early 1980s as the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, has been hired by the building’s owner to assess
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The Maldives has partnered with architecture studio Waterstudio to create a brain-shaped floating city that will house 20,000 people in a lagoon near the country’s capital. Called Maldives Floating City, the development will contain 5,000 low-rise floating homes floating within a 200-hectare lagoon in the Indian Ocean. As sea levels rise, so too will the city,
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Japanese art collective TeamLab has revealed the design for its TeamLab Phenomena Abu Dhabi gallery, which will be a permanent venue for its digital art on Saadiyat Island. Conceived by TeamLab as a “home for infinite curiosity”, the building will host immersive artworks designed by the Japanese collective. As the latest cultural venue to be built
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