The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a mass-timber tenement-style housing development by Scottish studio Fraser/Livingstone. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
Designed by the studio as a contemporary addition to the historic site, the building is Scotland's first developer-led, mass-timber housing development in Edinburgh.
Named Simon Square, it consists of six flats and replaces an old builder's yard on a site closely bordered by 19th-century stone tenements, in Edinburgh's Southside.
Readers had a mixed reaction. One described it as "out of character with its context" while another thought "it sits well" and a third agreed saying it's "sensitive to its period surroundings".
Other stories in this week's newsletter that fired up the comments section include a "PoMo" nursery in the Czech Republic designed by Architektura, UK member of parliament Nick Fletcher's "nonsense" criticism of 15-minute cities and "scary" chatbot ChatGPT's warning to architects about the threat of AI.
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