This week on Dezeen, we introduced Olympic Impact, our latest editorial series that investigates whether the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games can be the blueprint for sustainable major sporting events.
The series, which will examine the carbon-reducting measures taken by the games, was explained by Dezeen features editor Nat Barker.
As part of Olympic Impact, we published Dezeen’s guide to the architecture of the Paris 2024 Olympics, profiling the most architecturally notable venues of the games. The major theme has been renovation and reuse.
We also spoke to Populous’ France president François Clément, who has been involved with the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games since he assisted the city’s bid in 2016, about the reuse of existing buildings.
In design news, British industrial designer Kenneth Grange, who co-founded design studio Pentagram, passed away this week aged 95.
Described as having had a career that was “unparalleled in its breadth and longevity,” Grange designed Royal Mail postboxes, London black cabs and many UK “firsts”, including the first parking metres in 1958 and British Rail’s Inter-City 125 train in 1977.
Dubai unveiled plans for the Green Spine, a project that will see architecture studio Urb converting a 64-kilometre-long arterial road in the city into the “world’s greenest highway”.
The Green Spine project is intended to be Dubai’s answer to New York City’s High Line and will have pedestrianised walkways and a solar-powered tram system.
In architecture news, this week saw concepts for two upcoming football stadiums revealed.
The 115,000-seat Grand Stade Hassan II stadium in Morocco, designed by Populous and architecture studio Oualalou + Choi for the 2030 World Cup, is set to become the world’s largest football stadium.
While Populous is also set to design a stadium “inspired by classical Roman architecture” for Italian football club AS Roma. The curved stadium is expected to seat around 65,000 people and to become the permanent home for the club, which has shared the Stadio Olimpico with rival club Lazio since 1953.
Our previous editorial series, North American Design 2024, came to an end this week with a look at the design scene in Vancouver, Canada.
The series ran for two months and explored the most innovative independent furniture and product design studios working in cities across Canada, Mexico and the United States in 2024.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included the restoration of architect Philip Johnson’s Brick House, an ADU balanced on a Californian mountainside and a sweeping holiday home on a Japanese mountain by Snøhetta.
Our latest lookbook featured contemporary kitchens brightened by skylights.
This week on Dezeen
This week on Dezeen is our regular roundup of the week’s top news stories. Subscribe to our newsletters to be sure you don’t miss anything.
