This week on Dezeen, architecture firm Foster + Partners unveiled designs for two new hotels for Saudi Arabia's tourism scheme The Red Sea Project.
Set to be built on an island in the Red Sea, Ummahat AlShaykh Hotel 12 will be a ring-shaped hotel with cabins built on stilts out over the water. Foster + Partners head of studio Gerard Evenden said the plan was to have a "light touch, non-damaging approach" to the island project.
For the appropriately named Southern Dunes hotel, the practice has planned a cluster of 40 villas in a remote desert landscape sheltered by overhanging timber and fabric roofs.
The Red Sea Project plans to build tourist attractions on an archipelago of 90 undeveloped islands off the west coast of Saudi Arabia. Resourceful students "firing pots in barbecues and doing fashion shoots in bedrooms" during lockdown
As the coronavirus continues to affect everyone's daily life, Dezeen and the Bath School of Design conducted a survey to record the impact of the pandemic on students.
One in four design students reported that their wellbeing has suffered, although the survey also revealed tales of originality and resourcefulness as the young designers adapted by using barbeques to fire clay pots and using their bedrooms as photoshoot sets.
In an opinion piece for Dezeen, Bath School of Design head Kerry Curtis wrote that "design students are solutions-driven. They are looking to resolve design problems."
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