{"id":264801,"date":"2025-11-01T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264801\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T11:06:11","slug":"this-week-we-reported-on-the-grand-egyptian-museums-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264801\/","title":{"rendered":"This week we reported on the Grand Egyptian Museum’s completion"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week on Dezeen<\/a>, we reported on the news that the long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum has reached completion in\u00a0Giza<\/a> by Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects.<\/p>\n

The completion comes more than three decades after plans for the project were announced. The building, which is the “largest museum in the world dedicated to a single civilisation”, has a total floor area of 81,000 square meters.<\/p>\n

It is home to more than 100,000 pharaonic antiquities, many of which have never been made public before.<\/p>\n

\"Gare<\/a>Santiago Calatrava has arranged a Belgian station around a “monumental bridge”<\/a><\/p>\n

This week we also shared photos of architect Santiago Calatrava’s Gare de Mons station<\/a>, which has opened in Belgium. The sculptural building, which Calatrava described as a “monumental bridge”, is made of glass and steel and organised around a raised gallery volume that stretches 165 metres across the site.<\/p>\n

The station is located along the international Paris to Brussels train line in Mons and traverses a series of 350-metre-long platforms and bus stops that extend outwards from the gallery’s underside.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Robbie Williams ventured into furniture design with The Introvert Chair<\/a><\/p>\n

Artist Robbie Williams made his first foray into furniture design this week with the Introvert Chair<\/a>, which he designed for Dutch furniture brand Moooi. It features a gently curved shape and is wrapped in a tactile blend of virgin wool, alpaca and cotton.<\/p>\n

“In a world that rarely slows down, we often crave a place of respite, and this chair is just that,” Williams said.<\/p>\n

\"Royal<\/a>We asked if people really prefer traditional architecture<\/a><\/p>\n

The traditional-versus-modernist style debate has resurfaced with US president Donald Trump’s championing of classical architecture.<\/p>\n

Dezeen’s architecture editor Lizzie Crook spoke to architects and critics for a feature on the subject this week, in which she asked, do people really prefer traditional architecture?<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Project<\/a>Nike revealed a motor-assisted running device<\/a><\/p>\n

Sportswear brand Nike unveiled early concept designs of its battery-powered Project Amplify anklet<\/a>. The product was created by Nike together with robotics company Dephy.<\/p>\n

It adheres to a person’s lower leg to give them a motorised “boost” while running or walking.<\/p>\n

\"Albanian<\/a>“We want love stories between architects and Albania” said prime minister Edi Rama<\/a><\/p>\n

Albania’s prime minister Edi Rama explained why he is paying so much attention to architecture in an exclusive interview with Dezeen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I think that for a country like Albania, good architecture is an uplifting presence \u2013 it’s a source of extra energy for the society and for the way we envisage our future,” he explained, adding that he believes the country will have its own star architect in 10 years.<\/p>\n

\"Three<\/a>Nick Willson Architects organised a rural Sussex home around a steel-framed cloister<\/a><\/p>\n

Popular projects on Dezeen this week included a Sussex home organised around a steel-framed cloister<\/a>, a sculptural bookstore in China<\/a> and a Pune clubhouse with perforated brick walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Our latest lookbook featured double-height living rooms<\/a>, while our latest roundup showcased closed-off homes concealed behind windowless walls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This week on Dezeen<\/p>\n

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