This week on Dezeen, we unveiled Japanese studio Sou Fujimoto Architects’ giant wooden ring encircling Expo 2025 Osaka.
Named The Grand Ring, the 61,035-square-metre structure was confirmed by Guinness World Records to be the largest wooden architectural structure in the world.
Also this week, aerial photos revealed that concrete work is progressing on The Line in Saudi Arabia, a megacity planned to comprise two parallel 500-metre-high skyscrapers stretching 170 kilometres long.
The megacity is the most high-profile project being developed as part of the Neom development, which has been widely criticised on human rights and sustainability grounds.
In other architecture news, construction is underway on the 1072 West Peachtree skyscraper in Atlanta, US, designed by local studio TVS.
According to its developer, Rockefeller Group, the 60-storey skyscraper will be Atlanta’s tallest residential building when it is completed.
Time magazine included Selldorf Architects founder Annabelle Selldorf and MAD founder Ma Yansong on its Time 100 list of most influential people for 2025.
Joining the architects on the annual Time 100 list were world leaders Donald Trump and Keir Starmer, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and tennis player Serena Williams.
At the Auto Shanghai motor show, German carmaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled its Vision V concept car, which was designed to redefine vans as luxury VIP shuttles.
The van features two fully reclining seats, a retractable 65-inch screen with integrated gaming controllers and a fold-out table that doubles as a chessboard.
Earth Day took place on Tuesday this week, and to mark the occasion, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz wrote about the downfalls of focusing on energy transitions and shifting habits from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
“The global history of energy is not a story of substitution, but of accumulation,” he wrote. “There has never been a true ‘transition’ away from coal, oil, or even wood.”
Projects that caught readers’ attention this weekend included a concrete home in India with a wavy roof, a house made from adobe walls that overlooks the Himalayas, and a renovated London home finished in rough concrete and red steel.
Our latest lookbooks featured dining rooms furnished with cantilevered chairs and living rooms where wood-clad ceilings add warmth.
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