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This week, readers are discussing Dutch studio MVRDV's Bihailou Art Village in Shenzhen, China and a 20-storey 934 Central Street data centre in Kansas City, USA.

 

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MVRDV designs colourful stacked volumes for Shenzhen cultural complex

"Outdated already"

Commenters are disappointed by designs for Dutch studio MVRDV's Bihailou Art Village, a cultural development in Shenzhen, China, set to comprise a stack of colourful volumes.

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SOM designs "vertical data center" for Downtown Kansas City

"Man, it's getting weird out there."

International architecture studio SOM has released designs of the 20-storey 934 Central Street data centre in Kansas City, USA. Readers are perplexed.

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Olson Kundig crowns Sky View house with retractable roof

"What a wonderful place to live!"

Readers discuss a house by US studio Olson Kundig Architects in the mountains of Idaho with large spans of concrete, steel and glass, topped with a retractable roof.

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Tan France launches debut furniture collection with Castlery

"Some may like it..."

Media personality and former Queer Eye host Tan France has released an 18-piece homeware collection with Singapore brand Castlery, which marks his first foray into furniture design. Commenters weigh in. 

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MAD scatters boulder-like galleries across green-roofed museum in Shenzhen

"Why would a museum need to look like a generic glass box skyscraper?"

Commenters are discussing the Shenzhen Bay Culture Square by Architecture studio MAD in China, a design museum formed of stone-like volumes perched atop an undulating green roof.

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Why stadium design is getting more outlandish

"Tastefully modest, I like it"

Readers enjoyed the interiors of the Ómós guesthouse outside Abbeyleix, Ireland, which was converted from a ruin into a welcoming space by Asca Studio and Relief Gallery.

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Kuryłowicz + Architects designs Antarctic research station as "home at the end of the world"

"Does it walk?"

Commenters are amused by the photos revealed of the timber Arctowski Station nearing completion on King George Island in Antarctica by Architecture studio Kuryłowicz + Architects.

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Two colours of brick give Quebec apartment building "painterly dimension"

"Very striking elevations"

Commenters are split over Twin Peaks House by Canadian practice Leckie Studio, which features an asymmetrical roof and silvery wood cladding that helps the building "recede among the trees".

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SBP and Snøhetta cantilever bridge between rock faces in Upstate New York

"Delicate and sensible"

New York studios Schlaich Bergermann Partner and Snøhetta have replaced an ageing bridge in Upstate New York with a steel half-arch span that is mounted on one side of a gorge and cantilevers across to the other side. Readers discuss.

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