In this week's comments update, readers are debating the winner of the People's Choice category at the Designs of the Year awards and sharing their views on other top stories.
This year's winner of the People's Choice category at the Designs of the Year awards is Brick Arches ? makeshift roadblocks from Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests.
The roadblocks are ordinary bricks stacked ankle-high in clusters of three, set up on roads to stop vehicles moving forward.
When struck by a wheel, the top brick falls away and the remaining two bricks form a buttress that prevents the wheel from moving.
According to Design Museum curator Maria McLintock, the design won because the roadblocks could be made by anyone anywhere.
"It is one thing peacefully protesting, but another actively destroying the city" Readers are divided. "This is horrible," said Sam Jian. "The bricks are from the public roadway, public property used by everyone. These rioters are destroying public property. It is one thing peacefully protesting, but another actively destroying the city."
Heywood Floyd continued: "The ability for protestors to build their own roadblocks can only be praised when the protestors' political ideologies are in alignment with those of the people issuing the praise. Once the common interests diverge, all you are left with is domestic terrorism. Imagine the insurrectionists at the US Capitol using this concept. Slippery slope..."
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