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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a mass-timber building by Studio Gang in San Francisco. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.
The addition at the California College of the Arts San Francisco campus consists of three mass-timber buildings featuring an exposed, black-toned bracing system and a large, elevated board-marked concrete terrace.
Commenters debated the project, some calling it “possibly Studio Gang’s best work”, while others decried it as “a remarkably inelegant solution”. What do you think? Join the debate in the Dezeen comments section ›
Other stories in this week’s newsletter that Dezeen readers were quick to comment on was the latest news from Neom in Saudi Arabia as they named The Line architects and Alex Chinneck’s distorted street furniture, which was designed to bring “surrealism into the public realm”.
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