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This week on Dezeen, we kicked off our mid-century modern design series with an overview of the movement, which is showing no signs of abating after more than 70 years.

In the first of a series of profiles of mid-century modern designer, we looked back at the career of Finnish-American architect and industrial designer Eero Saarinen, whose creations were adopted as the optimistic symbols of a new post-war age.

We also spoke to author Cara Greenberg, whose book popularised the term mid-century modern series. She told us that the style is “never going away”.

This week also saw us announce the shortlists for Dezeen Awards 2024. The 82-strong architecture shortlist included buildings by Schemata Architects, Urbanus, Studio Gang, MVRDV (pictured) and Grimshaw.

We also announced the interiors, design and sustainability shortlists as well as the Designers of the Year shortlist, which included Fala Atelier, Holloway Li and FOG Architecture.

In New York, Selldorf Architects completed a pair of porcelain-clad skyscrapers on the waterfront of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighbourhood.

Named One Domino Square, the development comprises 55-storey and 39-storey residential skyscrapers located between the Williamsburg Bridge and the recently opened Domino Sugar Refinery.

In design news, PepsiCo unveiled a rebrand of its Mountain Dew soft drink, which placed the mountain back at the core of the identity.

Alongside a rejuvenated colour palette, mountains were incorporated into the logo and packaging, while the word mountain was reintroduced to the logo.

In an opinion piece this week, we focused on the visionary architect at the centre of Francis Ford Coppola’s bizarre epic movie Megalopolis.

“This is a film about architecture,” wrote Will Wiles. “And when a film as cumbersome with meaning and fatally earnest as Megalopolis uses architecture to make its point, what is it saying?”

Following the publication of a house with a wooden slatted floor in the upper-storey living room last month, we rounded up a series of houses with gloriously impractical features from the Dezeen archive.

The homes feature transparent walls, unorthodox plans and giant staircases (pictured above).

Popular projects featured on Dezeen this week included a Cornish courtyard home by Hugh Strange Architects, Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s “big cube” in Paddington and an aluminium-clad extension to a hotel in Singapore.

This week’s lookbook featured eight soothing cabin interiors to retreat to this autumn.

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