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Dezeen Mail issue 317 features this week’s best stories and discussions
Ikea’s tongue-in-cheek response to Kanye West’s request to collaborate with the Swedish furniture giant, the latest news from our Brexit design summit and Rio’s Olympic architecture (pictured) feature in this week’s issue of Dezeen Mail.
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Toshiko Mori expands Marcel Breuer-designed residence with glazed addition
New York architect Toshiko Mori has renovated and extended a building originally designed by famed Modernist architect Marcel Breuer as a personal residence, connecting two structures with a glass-enclosed staircase (+ slideshow). (more…)
“We are all responsible for the state of architectural education in the UK”
Opinion: shocking new statistics about the mental health of architecture students in the UK should be a wake-up call for both architects and educators, says Robert Mull. (more…)
Sou Fujimoto, Kengo Kuma and more propose future houses in House Vision exhibition
Japanese architects including Sou Fujimoto, Atelier Bow-Wow, Kengo Kuma and Shigeru Ban have all designed houses of the future for a Tokyo exhibition (+ movie). (more…)
Replacement housing revealed for London’s doomed Robin Hood Gardens
Haworth Tompkins and Metropolitan Workshop have revealed their designs for housing that will replace London’s historic Robin Hood Gardens estate by Brutalist architects Alison and Peter Smithson. (more…)
Official Rio 2016 Olympics posters unveiled
Bartlett head calls for new models of education to protect future UK architects
The head of one of the world’s top architecture schools has called for an overhaul of architecture education and accreditation in the UK following new statistics about the high rate of mental health issues among students. (more…)
Ed Carpenter’s best-selling Pigeon Light was an unexpected icon
Most Loved: in our next exclusive movie, designer Ed Carpenter reflects on how the pigeon-shaped lamp he presented at his graduation show in 2001 became a bestseller in museums and design shops around the world. (more…)
Four-metre-wide house built in Tokyo by Atelier HAKO Architects
Atelier HAKO Architects has squeezed a three-storey house onto a four-metre-wide site in Tokyo, suggesting that skinny houses are still the rage in Japan (+ slideshow). (more…)