Dezeen Debate features the "last thing Istanbul's historic waterfront needs"

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British studio Foster + Partners has unveiled Golden Horn Plaza, a waterfront retail development in Istanbul featuring a cantilevered, flying saucer-shaped restaurant.

Readers discussed the project, with one commenting, "Foster + Partners breathing new life into Istanbul's waterfront does not wake me up", and another adding, "In other words, gentrification and social cleansing. This is the last thing Istanbul's historic waterfront needs".

Other stories in this week's newsletter that sparked debate include plans for the world's longest suspension bridge in Italy, a water harvesting system created by a Northumbria University graduate and sandcastles "mimicking the flat, lifeless buildings all too common in our towns" as part of Heatherwick's Humanise campaign.

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