"Buildings like this are masterpieces of architecture"
In this week's comments update, readers gave kudos to a whisky distillery cut into the hills of the Scottish countryside by British architecture firm Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.
Pour another one: Readers were full of praise for the £140 million Macallan Distillery in Scotland, which features a wavy timber roof made up of 380,000 individual components.
"Beautiful architecture, emotionally worth a visit," outlined Paolo Zardo.
"So glad to see something new from RSH+P," added The Huey, who had been looking forward to seeing new work from the studio.
"Not a fan of whisky, but a big fan of this!" admitted an impressed Joe_3
However, Sir John V didn't see what the fuss was about: "Despite the comments, this is yet more evidence that Roger's old firm is losing its distinctiveness: this one is 'It-could-be-Renzo-Piano'." Ha suggested there was some bias at work: "I am shocked to read so many good comments on this project. It's like British architects are isolated from the rest."
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What do you make of the Macallan Distillery" Join the discussion ?
Autopilot: Readers reacted in a humorous fashion to research by Carlo Ratti for MIT, which concluded that autonomous vehicles guided by algorithms could improve transport efficiency by cutting the number of taxis on roads by half.
"What if we replaced the inhabitants of the city with robots" I bet we could get those taxi numbers down even lower!" mocked...
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