This week on Dezeen, Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana at Art Basel Miami Beach was removed from display and Foster + Partners launched its sustainability manifesto.
A banana taped to a wall by Italian artist Cattelan, named Comedian, was removed from its display at Art Basel Miami Beach after "several uncontrollable crowd movements", which included another artist eating it.
In its place, the white wall onto which it was taped has been marked with red-lipstick graffiti that reads "Epstien (sic) didn't kill himself" ? vandalism believed to have formed part of an art performance.
It is the second art scandal that Cattelan has been embroiled in this year, after his solid gold $5 million toilet was stolen from an exhibition at Blenheim Palace. Foster + Partners launches sustainability manifesto
This week also saw Foster + Partners introduce an eight-page sustainability manifesto that outlines its methodology for designing buildings.
The document says the studio will go beyond current environmental certification schemes, stating that these standards will not reduce carbon emissions enough to meet the Paris climate agreement.
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