Weekly Round-up: Newsmakers in the world of design and architecture

What the design world is talking about this week:

• This European city will take over from Rio de Janeiro as the UNESCO World Capital of Architecture in 2023

• What does urban density actually mean?
• Bjarke Ingels has designed the new Audemars Piguet museum in the Swiss Jura Mountains

• Why Torontonians are happy to see the Sidewalk Labs project shelved.

• Entry deadline to Iconic Awards 2020 ends on May 22
• Tie, moling, underpinning and batter – 45 everyday terms that are technical in the architectural lexicon

 

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