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Dezeen Debate features Rishi Sunak's "regressive" plans to stop 15-minute cities

Deezen

Dezeen Debate Dezeen Debate is sent every Thursday and features a selection of the best reader comments and most talked-about stories.

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Thomas Hacker’s tree of influence

Portland Architecture

Hacker even got to work on two of Kahn’s masterpieces, the Kimble Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the capital building in Dacca, Bangladesh. This post was originally published in the Portland Tribune's Business Tribune section. I’ve used many times this analogy of a jazz band,” Hacker said in a 2015 interview. Advertisements

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"Why can't we have nice things like this in the US?" says commenter

Deezen

Chuck Anziulewicz caused a small storm in the comments section with the question: "Why can't we have nice things like this in the United States?" "Fantastic," declared Betty Rubble. "[It] It] begs for pedestrians to run their fingers along those delicious, crisp edges."

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

Last year’s winner Marina Otero joined Germane Barnes , Aleksandra Jaeschke , and Cooking Sections co-founder Daniel Fernández Pascual as the latest in a line of talented young recipients of the award. He is a TED Global Fellow; member, Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE); and received A.B.

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Two Louis Kahn Books

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Still, the bulk of the book's half-dozen sections — with such titles as "Rediscovering an Architecture of Mass and Structure" and "Inspired Compositions in the Poetics of Action" — consist of case studies devoted to Kahn's masterpieces from the 1960s and 70s: the Salk, the Kimball, the Yale Center for British Art, etc.

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Interesting Ways of Building a House From Around The World

Architecture Ideas

Bamboo and stilt housing was and is still common in parts of Asia like China, Thailand, Myanmar, and Bangladesh. Let us know in the comment section. This type of housing is, however, nowadays associated with poverty, as more and more Africans adopt the westernized form of housing, using stones and cement. Bamboo and Stilts: Asia.

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Book Briefs #35 Revisited

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

It features one hundred buildings with brief descriptive texts, images, site plans, and selected floor plans and sections. African Modernism investigates the close relationship between architecture and nation-building in Ghana, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, and Zambia. Their photographs document the buildings in their present state.

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