This week on Dezeen, Michael Green Architecture unveiled plans for a 55-storey skyscraper in Milwaukee, which would become the world’s tallest mass-timber building if completed.
Set to be built alongside the Marcus Center in central Milwaukee, the multi-tower scheme will include a 55-storey skyscraper made principally from mass-timber elements, which would make it the tallest engineered-wood building in the world if completed.
An air-conditioning “debacle” is taking place at the athletes’ villageWhile the Olympic Games takes place in Paris, we continued our Olympic Impact series with an opinion piece focused on the air conditioning row in the athletes’ village.
“The Paris Olympic Village air-conditioning debacle is a perfect illustration of the barriers to climate action,” wrote Smith Mordak.
In a feature published as part of the series, we spoke to experts who said that the “destructive” Olympics should be shrunk to save carbon.
We also spoke to the designer of the Paris Olympic cauldron, Mathieu Lehanneur.
The French designer told us that his “flying” Olympic cauldron may become a permanent Parisian landmark.
In more sports news, the first images were revealed of the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, which was designed by international firm AECOM as the home of the LA Clippers NBA team.
According to the studio, the stadium is topped with a roof informed by a basketball “passing through a net”. The arena will be one of the venues to host events at the Olympics in 2028.
We also rounded up eight contemporary houses in Hawaii that are designed in response to the island environment.
Large overhanging roof eaves and homes with multiple volumes are featured on the list.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a Mexican house arranged around interior courtyards, 6 Columns house in London and a “living laboratory” in Natural History Museum gardens.
Our latest lookbooks featured offbeat red-and-green home interiors and wooden kitchens.
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