This week on Dezeen, American studio Manica Architecture unveiled the design for the Chicago Bears football team’s stadium, which features a translucent roof and glass curtain wall at the entrance.
The stadium, which will be located along Chicago’s Lake Michigan, will serve as a multi-purpose recreational campus and also host concerts and other sporting events.
It was criticized by preservationists because of its location on a protected waterfront. Manica plans to break ground on the stadium in the summer of 2025 and open in 2028.
In skyscraper news, car brand Aston Martin has completed a 66-story skyscraper in Miami. The skyscraper has a cantilevered pool near the top and a curved, flat shape inspired by a ship’s sail.
The brand’s first residential skyscraper was designed in collaboration between the British automaker and architecture studio Bodas Mian Anger (BMA) and will be located next to the mouth of the Miami River.
Also in Miami, architecture studio SOM designed a skyscraper with a 51-story “exposed structure” defined by two expansive terraces.
Renovation projects also proved popular this week. In London, dMFK Architects restored and renovated his Voysey House office in Chiswick.
Originally designed by architects CFA Voysey as a wallpaper factory, the Grade II listed building has an impressive façade that has been carefully restored to its ‘former glory’.
In New York, Finnish architect Eero Saarinen’s first and only skyscraper, Black Rock, was renovated by Vokon Architects and MdeAS Architects to “meet today’s expectations.”
Prince William is ‘continuing his father’s work’ with a housing development designed by Ben Pentrees.
The project, located in south-east Faversham, England, will be organized around “ancient paths and landscape patterns” and will include at least 875 affordable homes.
This is the Duchy of Cornwall’s third major housing development on its land, and the first to be led by Prince William since becoming Prince of Wales.
In this week’s Design News, Dezeen editorial director Max Fraser questioned whether Milan Design Week had become a victim of its own success.
Mr Fraser said the queues had been “felt particularly acute this year”, adding that “design has moved further and further away from providing solutions that meet the needs of ordinary people, and has instead created a disproportionate amount of products for the wealthy. “They are mass producing decorative items,” he said.
This week we have compiled the top 5 homes for April. These include a scrawny house in Japan, a deliberately unfinished house in Canada, and a lonely cottage in the Outer Hebrides.
Other most-read homes last month were a holiday home on the outskirts of London and a dual-function holiday home on the coast of Finland.
This week’s popular projects include a former abattoir turned art gallery with rotating walls, the renovation of a Victorian home in London, and a diagonal office by Norwegian studio Snøhetta.
The latest lookbook features eight creative rooms.
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