In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the outcome of Tate Modern's supreme court privacy case and debating Formafatel's pair of rammed-earth villas in Costa Rica.
The supreme court last week ruled that residents of the luxury Neo Bankside flats on the south bank of the Thames live as though they are "on display in a zoo" because of Tate Modern's Herzog & de Meuron-designed viewing platform.
Neo Bankside residents brought the winning case to the supreme court following its dismissal from both the high court in 2019 and the court of appeals in 2022.
Neo Bankside residents have won their privacy case against Tate Modern
"What an anti-urban ruling"
Dezeen readers were largely unimpressed by the judgement, with commenter Prado Sellinder calling it "anti-urban". "Don't live in a glass tower in the city centre if you don't want anyone to see you," they argued. "What precedent does this set across the city" Or does this ruling only apply to the ultra-wealthy""
Commenter Think, meanwhile, proposed an unconventional solution to the highly publicised dispute. "An enterprising resident should have just rented out an apartment as a shooting location for adult entertainment," they wrote. "Suspect a screen would have gone up at the Tate pretty quick."
Of the few commenters who sided with the supreme court, Jonno55 thought the fault lay with "the planners and designers who didn't fores...