Frank Gehry unveiled plans for a development of five buildings along Los Angeles' Sunset Strip this week, adding to the architect's list of projects in his home city – which is experiencing a surge of high-profile architecture projects.
Gehry was recently revealed as the designer of a masterplan for the LA River. Over the past two years he has proposed a mixed-use complex across the road from his downtown Walt Disney Concert Hall and a tower for Santa Monica, where his self-designed 1978 home is located.
LA is also poised to gain a residential block modelled on a hilltop village by MAD, while the eagerly anticipated Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed Broad museum – also beside Gehry's concert hall – is set to open next month.
Elsewhere this week, John Pawson unveiled plans to convert a historic building in Jaffa into a hotel, while a youth hostel in London's Brutalist Barbican Estate is set to become luxury apartments.
Foster + Partners announced plans to redesign charging stations for electric vehicles, and Transport for London invited designers to update the city's hireable "Boris Bikes".
Zaha Hadid Architect's Tokyo 2020 Olympics stadium remained in the news, as the firm launched a campaign to reinstate the scrapped design.
A team at MIT developed a new technique for 3D-printing molten glass and an installation of 100,000 white balloons opened at Covent Garden market.
Dezeen revealed that Charles Holland is working on a second house for Alain de Botton's Living Architecture project, and we published exclusive interviews with the founder of Burning Man festival, Larry Harvey, and Architecture for Humanity co-founder Cameron Sinclair.
Our summer series on Postmodernism continued with articles about Charles Moore's colourful Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, Martine Bedin's Super Lamp that wheels along like a dog on a leash, and Terry Farrell's brazen TV-am studios in London.
Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a submerged concrete studio for a painter, a Tel Aviv house comprising three white boxes, and a roundup of our favourite Ikea designs and hacks.
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