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The 10 most hotly debated design and architecture stories of 2024
- Dezeen has rounded up the year's most hotly debated design and architecture stories. Two ongoing stories dominated the debate this year: plans for America's tallest tower in Oklahoma and the Neom news coming out of Saudi Arabia. Jaguar’s rebranding and the latest from Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign also made it to the list. Other stories that made the cut include Neri Oxman's skyscraper, actor Chris Pratt tearing down a Craig Ellwood-designed mid-century home in LA, Studio Libeskind's social housing project and climate issues arising from the Paris 2024 Olympics.
- Plans for a supertall skyscraper in Oklahoma went on to secure full funding and receive approval for "unlimited height", making it set to be the tallest building in the US when complete.
- Architecture firm Studio Libeskind's The Atrium at Sumner Houses project, an afforable housing block with 190 apartments for seniors in Brooklyn, New York, sparked debate amongst readers.
- Dezeen's regular opinion writer Smith Mordak drew focus onto climate issues arising from the Paris 2024 Olympics and the temperature of the athletes' accommodation.
- Thomas Heatherwick again was the talk of the town as we covered 11 Heatherwick stories in 2024 that garnered more than 600 comments between them.
- The most talked-about rebrand of the year was that of Jaguar, which generated hundreds of comments across our coverage, with concerns mostly about the "awful mixture of upper and lower case letters".
- In February, aerial photos revealed work progressing on The Line megacity, being developed by Neom in Saudi Arabia. The project scaled-back plans, as Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund hadn't approved Neom's budget.
- Another opinion piece that sparked the ire of the majority of commenters came from Dezeen contributor Catherine Slessor, who wrote a signature tirade about architecture's famous figures working well into their old age.
- More than 50 readers took the to comment section to debate plans from design studio Oxman for a system called "ecological programming" to optimise green architecture.
- Actor Chris Pratt had torn down a home by mid-century architect Craig Ellwood in LA.
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