This isn t about design, this is about politics says commenter
In this week s comments update, readers are debating UK prime minister Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds 11 Downing Street flat makeover and sharing their views on other top stories.
Johnson sparked controversy recently when, in addition to re-wallpapering, he replaced the John Lewis furniture chosen by his predecessor Theresa May for the prime ministerial home.
In an opinion piece for Dezeen, Michelle Ogundehin asked, Why is the world so enraged by the refurbishment of Boris Johnson s flat? £850 for a roll of wallpaper is disproportionate
Readers responded. The kerfuffle isn t about the design, said Aidan Walker. Apart from Carrie s ill-judged snobbery about John Lewis. It s about who paid for it, No. 10 s obfuscations, unseemly backtracking, and Boris being held over a barrel by the Tory grandees who stumped up the cash. This isn t design, this is politics.
The whole thing feels quite magical says commenter
In this week s comments update, readers are enchanted by a pop-up synagogue in Ukraine and sharing their views on other top stories.
Manuel Herz Architects has created the Babyn Yar Synagogue in Ukraine to mark the 80th anniversary of a massacre that took place during the Holocaust.
The synagogue was built near Kyiv at the site of the Babyn Yar massacre, where around 34,000 Jews from the city were killed by the Nazi party in 1941.
The structure consists of two large walls that can be manually opened and closed like a pop-up book.
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Kohn Pedersen Fox plans to build three skyscrapers, linked by vertical planters, at 70 Gracechurch Street in the City of London.
The complex will play host to a mixture of retail spaces as well as a viewing platform.
It is intended as a new voice for London s Eastern Cluster – a group of skyscrapers that also includes KPF s Scalpel tower, alongside RSH+P s Leadenhall Building and Rafael Viñoly s Walkie Talkie. We don t need anymore of these sorts of buildings
Readers aren t sold. Does London really need anymore of these dreadful tall buildings? asked Nigel William Wakeham. Surely when more and more people are working at home we do not need anymore of these sort of buildings.
In this week s comments update, readers are discussing BIG s mixed-use development in Harlem, New York, and sharing their views on other top stories.
Architecture firm BIG has built The Smile in New York s Harlem neighbourhood to house a nursing school and 223 residential apartments.
Situated at East 126th Street the development is named for its curved, stainless-steel facade, which the studio designed to recall the textured surface of the moon . Does that building actually lean back from the street?
Readers are torn. Facade looks great in the photos, said Z-Dog, on one hand.
Troels Steenholdt Heiredal disagreed: Does that building actually lean back from the street as if it is physically embarrassed by its traditional neighbours? Nothing says Harlem like a rooftop pool from where you can look down on the neighbourhood.