This week on Dezeen, a design by Brazilian artist Lalalli Senna was revealed for the Senna Tower supertall skyscraper, which is set to be the tallest building in Brazil.
Planned for the city of Balneário Camboriú, the 500-metre-tall building will feature a facade that curves towards the base to form terraces populated with pools and landscaping.
The project developer, FG Empreendimetos, claims Senna Tower will be the tallest residential tower in the world.
Also this week, Dezeen reported live from London Design Festival. Our Monday coverage featured a pop-up shop showcasing British-Nigerian designer Yinka Ilori’s latest collection and an exhibition of sculptural chairs by five UK-based makers.
On Tuesday, Dezeen launched an exhibition in collaboration with ASUS called Design You Can Feel, which showcased furniture, lighting and installation design exploring themes of materials, craftsmanship and AI.
In other design news, Chinese tech giant Huawei released a triple-folding phone that opens into a 10.2-inch tablet.
Named Mate XT Ultimate Design, the smartphone has a flexible OLED touchscreen that hinges in two directions. It was described by the brand as “the first-ever commercial triple foldable phone”.
The Royal Institute of British Architects revealed the 2024 shortlist for the annual Neave Brown Award for Housing, which celebrates the UK’s best new affordable homes.
The four selected projects were the North Gate Social Housing development in Glasgow and three projects in London, including a stepped brick terrace, a revamped 1960s housing complex and a neighbourhood of 235 socially rented homes.
Glasgow’s North Gate Social Housing was also announced this week as one of the shortlisted projects for RIAS’s 2024 Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland award.
Alongside the housing project in the five-strong shortlist were the University of Aberdeen Science and Teaching Hub and renovations of Glasgow’s Burrell Collection, the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh and a group of 19th-century farm buildings in Aberdeenshire.
In an exclusive interview, architecture photographer Hélène Binet told Dezeen that architects are less interested in photographers capturing artistic interpretations of their buildings.
With 40 years of experience photographing both recent and historical projects, she said that most contemporary architecture photography has become repetitive.
Popular projects featured on Dezeen this week included a London home extension and renovation, a waterfront house on a British Columbian island and a secluded hotel retreat in the Swiss village of Adelboden.
This week’s lookbooks featured contemporary conversation pits and living rooms decorated in autumnal shades of red and orange.
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