Dezeen Debate features doughnut-shaped weather balloon praised as "sheer genius"

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Architecture firm Line + Studio introduced a doughnut-shaped meteorological balloon and a woven timber tunnel to rural Zhejiang.

Commenters debated the project, with one calling it "sheer genius". Another thought it was "fun, smart, and quite an interesting feature as a landscaping architectural statement".

Other stories in this week's newsletter that fired up the comments section included RCR Arquitectes' plans for an "unusually narrow" skyscraper in Dubai, earplugs made out of mycelium by product company Gob and the Museum of Shakespeare in London, designed by Perkins&Will.

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