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This week, readers are debating the winner of this year's RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building and US president Donald Trump's proposal for a classical-style triumphal arch in Washington DC.

 

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RIBA Stirling Prize 2025

"I wish social housing would be this level of architectural quality all over Europe"

Readers are reacting to the Appleby Blue Almshouse social housing complex in London by Witherford Watson Mann Architects, which has won this year's RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building.

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Trump doubles down on classical capital with "Arc de Trump" proposal

"I am pleased to see that a distinguished structure is planned for our Capitol"

A classical-style triumphal arch proposed by Donald Trump, potentially to be installed in Washington DC, for America's 250th birthday in 2026, is sparking heated debate among commenters.

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"The St George's cross speaks of the power of design to transform public space"

"It isn't a design issue. It's a social one"

The proliferation of St George's flags across England raises questions about design's capacity to influence political forces in today's world, writes Catharine Rossi. Readers share their thoughts.

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RMIT researchers reimagine rammed earth by encasing it in cardboard tubes

"I would like to see final use of those cylinders"

Researchers at RMIT in Australia have developed a building material that encases rammed earth in cardboard formwork, eliminating the need for cement, but the imitation doesn’t convince commenters.

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Denver pizza restaurant transformed into modular gallery by 11 x 17

"Not sure if there was too much or too little thinking here"

Architecture studio 11 x 17 converted a restaurant in a mixed-use building in Denver, Colorado, into a gallery for the Architectural League of New York, leaving readers puzzled by the space.

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Kelly Wearstler launches collectible design gallery Side Hustle

"What's not to like?"

Commenters are discussing Waterhouse, a "delightful" woodland home clad in wooden shingles in Quebec by Canadian studios Oyama and Julia Manaças Architecte.

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BIG completes mass-timber "village of 29 pavilions" at Johns Hopkins

"It's quite novel but it's not architecture"

Danish architecture studio BIG and New York studio Rockwell Group have completed a "overly complicated" student centre at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, USA.

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Studio Dera converts disused swimming pool into flexible teaching space

"Spatially very interesting adaptive re-use, materially much less so"

Commenters are inspired by Studio Dera's transformation of a disused swimming pool into The Pool, a light-filled, multifunctional teaching space at Waltham Forest College in London.

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"Understated nostalgia" defines Montreal sandwich shop by MRDK

"I love me a good diner. We need more of them"

A "comforting and familiar" sandwich shop in Montreal, featuring bright yellow upholstery and Formica by MRDK, has readers hooked.

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