Two high-profile project cancellations made the headlines this week as Thomas Heatherwick's New York Philharmonic concert hall overhaul and Atelier van Lieshout's controversial sculpture at Musée du Louvre were both dropped.
In Paris, the Louvre cancelled a display of Atelier van Lieshout's provocative Domestikator sculpture, causing Joep van Lieshout to call the museum "totally crazy".
The 12-metre high installation, which resembles a man penetrating a four-legged animal, was due to be displayed in the Jardin des Tuileries. Lieshout believes is was cancelled due to fears about offending visitors.
Heatherwick's overhaul of New York Philharmonic concert hall scrapped
Meanwhile in New York, Thomas Heatherwick's $500 million renewal of the Geffen Hall at the Lincoln Center was scrapped ? becoming the designer's third project to be cancelled in as many months. Foster + Partner's Bloomberg headquarters is the "world?s most sustainable office"
Foster + Partners was in the news for more positive reasons this week, as its newly completed Bloomberg headquarters in London was rated as the "world's most sustainable office" by BREEAM assessors.
The Norman Foster-led studio also unveiled plans for what will be Budapest's tallest building. The 28-storey skyscraper is expected to rise above the Hungarian Parliament Building and Saint Stephen's Basilica, which are both 96 metres high.
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