This week on Dezeen, a renovation of an Alvar Aalto-designed library won Finland's most important architecture prize and Snøhetta unveiled a new £100-million arts school for Bergen.
The Finlandia Prize for Architecture 2017 was awarded to JKMM and Arkkitehdit NRT Oy for their overhaul of the Aalto University campus library, which was originally designed by the Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto.
Snøhetta makes every interior surface a canvas in new £100-million arts school in Bergen
And students began moving into Snøhetta's new £100-million arts school in Bergen, Norway, which features unfinished interiors that invite pupils to personalise.
Foster + Partners begins work on Canada's tallest skyscraper
In other architecture news, OMA's New York branch was chosen to expand SANAA's New Museum in Manhattan and Foster + Partners began work on Canada's tallest skyscraper. In the UK, Labour MP Emma Dent Coad questioned "shared space" streets after a taxi drove into museum-goers on London's Exhibition Road, and Diller Scofidio + Renfro won a contest to design a concert hall to replace the old Museum of London building.
Ex-Google engineer establishes new religion with ambition to develop an AI god
An ex-Google engineer announced plans to create a religion that worships an AI god and we reported on eBay's "subconscious shopping experience".
We also featured Google's new camera this week, which uses artificial intelligence to learn when to take...