Dezeen Debate features a plant-covered hotel by Philippe Starck

The latest edition of Dezeen Debate features a plant-covered hotel in Paris by Philippe Starck. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now!

Designer Philippe Starck, French-Brazilian studio Triptyque and landscape studio Coloco designed a Parisian hotel with a steel exoskeleton framework and a vertical garden across its facade.

Spanning 8,000-square-metres, the hotel's exterior was planted with trailing plants to "bring nature back to the city".

However, reader's aren't sold. One commenter said: "Bye-bye to architecture, hello to arboriculture".

Other stories in this week's newsletter include a sculptural residential complex for a changing neighbourhood, a report exposing a "toxic learning and teaching culture" at the Bartlett and Thomas Heatherwick's most controversial projects.

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