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This week, readers are discussing Herzog & de Meuron's design for a Swiss bank and Audi's minimalist all-electric concept car.

 

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Peter Besley shelters Brisbane home with walls of perforated brickwork

"If anyone doesn't have love for this, you're dead inside"

Readers are inspired by a circular winery with radiating vaults in Mexico's Valle de Guadalupe, designed by Rojkind Arquitectos and AMASA Estudio.

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Herzog & de Meuron completes One Roof headquarters for Swiss bank on Lake Geneva

"Sophisticated modern design with grand execution"

Commenters are divided over Herzog & de Meuron's design for Swiss private bank Lombard Odier's Geneva headquarters, created to evoke a sense of transparency.

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Audi reveals minimalist concept car ahead of IAA in Munich

"I hope this stays as a concept, forever"

Automotive brand Audi has unveiled an all-electric concept car with a minimalist aesthetic to reflect its new design ethos, and readers are praising the vehicle's simplicity.

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Photos reveal Heatherwick's Humanise Wall under construction in Seoul

"Ironically the massive scale and crude execution of it is rather dehumanising"

Commenters are underwhelmed by the 90-metre-long twisted wall designed by Heatherwick Studio as the centrepiece of the upcoming Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, revealed in photos.

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Tanuvi Hegde designs Reflect chair to encourage fidgeting

"There is nothing graceful or delicate about the design of this chair"

Readers are responding to a chair designed by architect and designer Tanuvi Hegde, which is intended to reduce stress by allowing users to interact with a metal ball embedded in its wooden frame.

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Cracker Barrel scraps new logo after outrage at redesign

Incredible, detail heaven! Love thats it's made from recycled metal"

Commenters are loving Unknown Works' Salt Salon in Borough Market, with its galvanised steel sound wall and sheet-metal furniture creating a "bold yet refined" space.

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Vuild to crown Fukushima football stadium with rippled timber roof

"Best stadium design I have seen in a very long time"

Readers are praising a "well thought-out small stadium" designed by Japanese architecture studio Vuild, an all-wooden venue set to be the new home of Fukushima United FC in Fukushima, Japan.

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Carmody Groarke reveals "joyful and low-carbon" children's pavilion alongside Dulwich Picture Gallery

"I had high hopes for this. The result is quite underwhelming and drab"

Architecture studio Carmody Groarke has added the timber ArtPlay Pavilion to the gardens of John Soane's Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London. Commenters are critical.

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Co-living building by LOHA adds "much-needed density" to West Los Angeles

"I feel like this forced neighbour interaction is really awkward"

Readers think Barrington 1503, a residential project by California studio LOHA with living units arranged around a central courtyard, is "more suitable for dorm life than actual adult living".

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