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• Dezeen Agenda features plans for Brisbane Olympic Stadium

  08-01-2026 20:00 via dezeen.com
  The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features designs for Brisbane Olympic Stadium. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now.
  Australian studios Cox Architecture and Hassell have unveiled the design for a stadium in Brisbane for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
  LG unveiled a humanoid AI-powered robot at CES
  This week's newsletter also included LG's debut of an AI-powered home robot, a repairable electric car concept by a team of Dutch students and a Samsung speaker disguise
  
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• HW Studio designs concrete house that "withdraws discreetly" in Mexico

  08-01-2026 19:00 via dezeen.com
  Mexican architecture practice HW Studio has created a concrete house on the Pacific coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, with a semi-elliptical wall that frames multiple levels of contemplative courtyards.The Morelia, Mexico-based studio completed the 472 square metre (5,080 square feet) Casa Tao in 2025. It was designed through conversations with the clients about their humble upbringings and the importance of shade in the coastal regions.
  Casa Tao is a concrete house on the Pacific coast of Puert
  
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• Sandow Companies acquires Architonic and Azure

  08-01-2026 16:06 via dezeen.com
  Media brand Sandow Companies has acquired Canadian magazine Azure and product directory Architonic.
  Sandow Companies announced the acquisition of Architonic today, while it added formerly independent Canadian architecture and design publication Azure to its portfolio at the end of last year.
  The acquisitions of Architonic and Azure expand Sandow Companies' portfolio of built environment publications, which include architecture magazine Metropolis, architecture website Architizer, interior public
  
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• OFIS Arhitekti reconstructs historic post-war home in Slovenia

  08-01-2026 12:30 via dezeen.com
  Slovenian studio OFIS Arhitekti has completed House Under the Poplars, the reconstruction and extension of a historic post-war home in Ljubljana.
  The original house was designed as part of a self-built housing development called Naselje Murgle, constructed between 1965 and 1982. Planned by architects France and Marta Ivanšek, it is considered one of Slovenia's most important post-war developments.
  OFIS Arhitekti has reconstructed and extended a post-war home in Ljubljana
  With many of the
  
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• Demolished buildings 16 years older in US than in Europe, report finds

  08-01-2026 12:00 via dezeen.com
  Researchers have found that buildings demolished during the 21st century in European cities had a shorter lifespan than those in US cities.
  A report titled Lifetimes of demolished buildings in US and European cities, published in the peer-reviewed Buildings & Cities journal, compared the ages of around 15,000 buildings demolished in nine US cities and four European cities.
  Written by Juliana Berglund-Brown, Isaac Dobie, Jordiana Hewitt, Catherine de Wolf and John Ochsendorf, the report found
  
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• SoBA designs colourful sports park informed by local opera costumes

  08-01-2026 07:00 via dezeen.com
  Architecture studio SoBA Architects has designed the Huachiao Vibrant Sports Park in China, whose shape was informed by the flowing "water sleeves" used in the costumes for Kunqu operas.
  Located in Suzhou's Kunshan district, the 6,000-square-metre sports park comprises two basketball courts, a skatepark, table tennis tables, a pavilion and a children's playground.
  The sports park is located in Suzhou's Kunshan district
  Its design draws inspiration from the so-called water sleeves used in Kunqu o
  
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