This week on Dezeen, we unveiled a family home in Mumbai with rooms spread across 12 floors, courtesy of Indian studio Spasm Design.
To make the house stand out among the surrounding grey buildings, Spasm Design wrapped the home in terracotta panels and created cutouts to reveal balconies and terraces.
We followed up the story with a roundup of recently completed Indian houses with unusual designs, including a house made from more than 6,000 discarded toys and a home with living spaces that snake around trees and rocks.
Also this week, British engineer Tom Greenhill proposed painting the outside of windows with yoghurt to help cool homes during the UK’s increasingly intense heatwaves.
According to Greenhill, applying yoghurt with a roller creates an effect reminiscent of fritted glass that reflects light, offering a low-cost, low-energy solution for people who don’t have access to more elaborate cooling measures.
UK studio Zaha Hadid Architects revealed images of a twisting exoskeleton frame for the Central Bank of Iraq skyscraper, which is nearing completion in Baghdad.
Although still under construction, the 170-metre-tall reinforced concrete structure is now the tallest building in the city and the second tallest in the country.
In other architecture news, studios Oualalou + Choi and Populous unveiled their design for the world’s largest football stadium, which is being built in Morocco for the 2030 World Cup.
The Grand Stade Hassan II stadium is set to have a capacity of 115,000 and will be topped with a giant tented roof.
Meanwhile, incoming RIBA president and Weston Williamson + Partners co-founder Chris Williamson defended his studio’s work on the controversial Neom mega project in Saudi Arabia, which has been criticised on environmental and human rights grounds.
“We all form our own beliefs, our own version of truth and that should be respected,” he argued in a statement written for UK publication Architects’ Journal.
Popular projects this week included a family home in California designed by a married architect couple, a renovated terraced house in London and the concrete-framed D-Day Museum in Normandy.
Our latest lookbooks featured bathrooms with statement bathtubs and living rooms decorated with statement rugs.
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