In this week's comments update, readers are irritated by Burberry's design for a reflective pop-up store in South Korea and discussing other top stories.
British fashion brand Burberry has installed a pop-up store that reflects a surrounding mountain range on Jeju Island, South Korea, for its latest outerwear clothing collection.
The Imagined Landscapes Jeju installation is made from plywood, timber and a reflective polycarbonate mirror material.
"Out of touch in pretty much every way possible"
Commenters are annoyed. "Oh, the poor birds!" said Stefanos S. "Why are architects allowed to design reflective buildings" The design is great but the reflecting material is plain wrong."
Apsco Radiales agreed: "I can even get over the shape, the design, the location, but why in God's name are you building such a highly reflective building that will destroy thousands of birds"" "Tomorrow's trash today!" continued Alexis Harrison. "Hopefully, South Korea has plenty of landfill space for all that non-circular polycarbonate and plywood once this gets discarded after a pitifully short life pleasuring a select few."
"Out of touch in pretty much every way possible," concluded Steve Leo.
Dezeen has asked Burberry if the building poses a risk for birds but hasn't yet had a response.
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