This week on Dezeen, we explored 15 of the most interesting venues that will host the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028, including the recently opened Intuit Dome.
Among the venues on the list are the recently completed SoFi Stadium and Intuit Dome, as well as the LA84 Foundation/John C Argue Swim Stadium, which was built to host the swimming events for the 1932 Summer Olympics.
The article marked the end of our Olympic Impact series, which examined the carbon-reduction measures taken by the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and explored whether sustainable major sporting events are possible.
In other stadium news, this week global architecture studio Populous released images of its Aramco Stadium, which will seat 47,000 people.
The stadium, which has a spiralling form intended to evoke waves, is being developed to meet the requirements for the 2034 FIFA World Cup in Saudi Arabia and will be located in Al Khobar.
Malaysia’s prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has said the country, which has numerous well-known skyscrapers, will no longer be prioritising them.
“I have emphasised the need to focus on projects that serve and respect the people,” Ibrahim said. “There are already many skyscrapers, if the private sector wants to build them please do. But, the government does not make this a priority anymore.”
Swedish tech company Teenage Engineering released the “world’s first medieval electronic instrument” this week. The beat machine lets users create their own medieval-style music by combining samples of lutes, hurdy-gurdies and “rowdy peasants”.
In other design news, designer Kacper Motyka has developed Chairie, an adaptable piece of furniture designed to enhance sexual experiences. It comprises three cylindrical pillows that can move up and down to let the furniture change into various forms.
We rounded up seven narrow townhouses in New York, many of which are considered “infill” – buildings built on previously empty sites thought too small for residential development.
As these can be half the width of normal plots, the architects in the story worked within the spatial constraints to create innovative skinny homes that make the most of their narrow sites.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a stilted “micro-chalet” in a Canadian wood, an off-grid house on an Australian farm and a metal-clad holiday home in Montana.
Our latest lookbooks featured living rooms dominated by giant sofas and cleverly organised homes divided by storage solutions.
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