This week, the Chicago Bears football team’s stadium design by American company Manica Architecture was unveiled on Dezeen. The stadium will have a glass-curtain wall at the entry and a translucent roof. The stadium, which is planned to be built in Chicago near Lake Michigan, will serve as a multipurpose recreational campus in addition to serving as a venue for athletic events and concerts.
Preservationists attacked it because of its location, which is next to a protected shoreline. Manica anticipates starting construction on the stadium in the summer of 2025, with a 2028 opening date.
In other skyscraper news, the Miami-based auto manufacturer Aston Martin has finished construction on a 66-story tower with a cantilevered pool near the top and a curving, flat design that alludes to boat sails. Situated near the mouth of the Miami River, the British automotive manufacturer and architecture company Bodus Mian Anger (BMA) collaborated to develop the brand’s first residential skyscraper. SOM architecture team has created a 51-story skyscraper in Miami that features a “exposed structure” that is characterised by two large terraces.
This week, renovation initiatives were also well-liked. The Voysey House office in Chiswick, London, was rebuilt and restored by dMFK Architects. CFA Voysey, the architect, originally intended the Grade II-listed building as a wallpaper factory. Its magnificent exterior has been meticulously restored to its ‘former splendour’. Black Rock, the first and only skyscraper designed by Finnish architect Eero Saarinen in New York, underwent renovations to “meet the expectations of today” by Vocon Architects and MdeAS Architects.
Ben Pentreath created the house development that Prince William is “continuing his father’s work” on. The project, which is scheduled to be built in South East Faversham, UK, will have at least 875 affordable dwellings and be structured around “ancient footpaths and landscape patterns”. It will be the Duchy of Cornwall’s third significant housing development on its territory and the first under Prince William’s direction since he was become Prince of Wales.
Max Fraser, the editorial director of Dezeen, questioned whether Milan design week has become a victim of its own success this week in design news. The wait time “felt particularly acute this year” , Fraser stated, prompting worries that “design is increasingly moving away from providing solutions for the needs of regular people and is instead churning out a disproportionate amount of decorative objects for the wealthy”.
This week, we gathered the top five houses of April, which included a slender house in Japan, an intentionally incomplete house in Canada, and a solitary cottage in the Outer Hebrides. Two other homes that received a lot of attention last month were a suburban London estate and a dual-purpose vacation house on the Finnish coast.