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Whistling Wind Island by Akb Architects

Dezeen Debate features a "restraint of expression and fine execution"

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a cluster of shingle-clad buildings in Canada. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now.

Architecture studio Akb Architects designed a cluster of silvered cedar buildings on Whistling Wind Island, a remote archipelago in Ontario, Canada, serving as a summer home for a kite surfer.

Commenters debated the project, with one praising it as a "masterful restraint of expression and fine execution," while another described the site as "magical for anyone whose soul seeks poetry".

Audeum museum in Seoul by Kengo Kuma and Associates
Kengo Kuma shrouds Seoul museum in cascading aluminium pipes

Other stories in this week's newsletter that fired up the comments section included a museum in Seoul by Kengo Kuma and Associates, Populous plans for a new stadium in Rome and Urb's plans to convert a 64-kilometre-long arterial road in Dubai into the "world's greenest highway".

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