Week's top news: A sauna in the sky, a museum fit for a president and Heatherwick hits back at Garden Bridge critics
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Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from Elon Musk’s latest big idea to Peter Zumthor’s extension for Fondation Beyeler in Basel.
Monday
• The committee hoping to bring the Olympic Games to Los Angeles in 2024 has released new renderings of Valley Sports Park – the district that would host several events at the tournament if the city’s bid is successful. Read here.
Tuesday
• Danish architecture studio C.F. Møller have won a commission to design a landmark skyscraper for the city of Västerå, Sweden, featuring a panoramic garden wrapped around the 15th floor. Read here.
• “Endless political wrangling” is responsible for the likely abandonment of London’s Garden Bridge project, its designer Thomas Heatherwick has claimed. Read here.
• US design studios AvroKO and Meyer Davis have won prestigious prizes at the 2017 James Beard Foundation Restaurant Design Awards. Read here.
Wednesday
• Jeanne Gang, the award-winning founder of Studio Gang, talks to CLAD in an exclusive interview, and reveals new details about the American Museum of Natural History. Read here.
• Sports architecture practice Populous have completed the redevelopment of the Warner Stand at the world famous Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. Read here.
• There are more opportunities for leisure architects and designers working in China and Hong Kong than ever before, according to the creative director of Design Shanghai. Read here.
• David Chipperfield has overcome stiff competition to win the high-profile design competition to create a 1,000-capacity concert hall in Edinburgh. Read here.
• Thirty years after it first opened, Center Parcs has unveiled a Forest Spa up in the trees. Read here.
Thursday
• Barack and Michelle Obama, the former president and first lady of the United States, have unveiled the design of the planned Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. Read here.
• Elon Musk has begun work on yet another city-shaping concept: a network of underground of tunnels that will ease congestion in gridlocked cities. Read here.
• International consulting firm Linser Hospitality has been engaged to develop the extensive health and wellness programming for the Kemeri Park project in Jurmula, Latvia. Read here.
• A team led by landscape architecture studio Grant Associates with WilkinsonEyre has won an international competition to design a 41 hectare Friendship Park in northern China’s first and largest ‘eco city’. Read here.
Friday
• Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has presented his designs for the extension of Renzo Piano’s Fondation Beyeler in Basel. Read here.
• Architecture studio Snøhetta have completed something rather more intimate: a new range of ready-made mobile cabins. Read here.
• Inge Moore and her team at Muza Lab has completed the redesign of the Kanuhura in the Maldives. Read here.
• Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced a new breakthrough in the architectural applications of 3D printing, with the design of a system that can produce the basic structure of an entire building. Read here.
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