This week on Dezeen, automotive brand General Motors and developer Bedrock released their proposal to tear down two skyscrapers surrounding Detroit’s tallest building.
The plan calls for the removal of two of the five skyscrapers designed by American architect John Portman and the redevelopment of the remaining three, which include the tallest skyscraper in Detroit and all of Michigan.
Called the Detroit Marriott, the 222-metre-tall tower will be kept and renovated.
As the year draws to an end, we began our review of 2024. Roundups published this week included the 10 biggest building announcements of the year, the top 10 home interiors and the top houses of 2024.
The Dezeen team also picked their favourite design projects of the year, which included grow-at-home furniture and a device to prevent cancer patients from losing their hair.
Car brand Jaguar unveiled its electric concept car, Type 00, this week. The car divided opinion online, with descriptions ranging from a “design triumph” to an “ugly, clunky behemoth”.
Dezeen’s co-CEO Wai Shin Li got to see the Type 00 in real life at its launch during Miami art week and captured the car in a set of exclusive photos.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) named Six Columns – the self-designed home of architect Will Burges and his studio 31/44 Architects in London – its RIBA House of the Year for 2024.
The house, which is located on a tight wedge-shaped site in Crystal Palace, was lauded for its adaptable design intended to accommodate the changing needs of Burges and his family over time.
Colour specialist Pantone revealed its colour of the year, the “unpretentious” chocolatey-brown hue Mocha Mousse.
According to Pantone, the colour symbolises a “reframing of anything that could possibly be a trigger into something more positive, and this whole idea of little treat culture.”
The restored interiors of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris were revealed on Monday, days before the renovated cathedral reopened.
The event marked a major milestone in the restoration of the gothic cathedral, which was severely damaged in a huge fire in 2019.
In US news, American architecture studio Arquitectonica has completed the 48-storey Five Park skyscraper in Miami Beach – the tallest skyscraper in the area at 158 metres.
In North Dakota, Norwegian studio Snøhetta began construction on the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Construction photos and renders show a green roof that appears to merge with the landscape.
Popular projects featured on Dezeen this week included a metro station in Saudi Arabia by Zaha Hadid Architects, an unconventional house with an armadillo-like roof and a lakeside retreat in Austin clad in weathering steel.
This week’s lookbook featured snowy all-white interiors.
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