This week we launched our Olympic Impact series on Dezeen

This week on Dezeen, we present Olympic Impact, our latest editorial series which examines whether the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games can serve as a model for sustainable major sporting events.

The series, which will examine the carbon-reduction measures taken by the games, was explained by Dezeen editor Nat Barker.

As part of Olympic Impact, we published Dezeen’s guide to the architecture of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which showcases the most architecturally remarkable venues. The main theme was renovation and reuse.

We also spoke with Populous France President François Clément, who has been involved in the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games since helping the city’s bid in 2016, about reusing existing buildings.

In design news, British industrial designer Kenneth Grange, co-founder of design studio Pentagram, died this week at the age of 95.

Described as having a career “unparalleled in its breadth and longevity”, Grange designed Royal Mail letter boxes, London’s black cabs and many UK “firsts”, including the first parking meters in 1958 and British Rail’s Inter-City 125 train in 1977.

Dubai has unveiled plans for the Green Spine, a project that will see architecture studio Urb transform a 64-kilometre-long artery of the city into “the world’s greenest highway”.

The Green Spine project is intended to be Dubai’s answer to New York’s High Line and will feature pedestrian walkways and a solar-powered tram system.

In architectural news, this week the concepts of two future football stadiums were unveiled.

Morocco’s 115,000-seat Grand Stade Hassan II, designed by Populous and architecture studio Oualalou + Choi for the 2030 World Cup, is set to become the world’s largest football stadium.

Populous also plans to design a stadium “inspired by classical Roman architecture” for Italian football club AS Roma. The curved stadium is expected to seat around 65,000 people and become the permanent home of the club, which has shared the Stadio Olimpico with rivals Lazio since 1953.

Our previous editorial series, North American Design 2024, concluded this week with a look at the design scene in Vancouver, Canada.

The series ran for two months and explored the most innovative independent furniture and product design studios working in cities across Canada, Mexico and the United States in 2024.

Popular projects on Dezeen this week included architect Philip Johnson’s restoration of the Brick House, an ADU balanced on the side of a Californian mountain and a sprawling holiday home on a Japanese mountain by Snøhetta.

Our last lookbook featured contemporary kitchens illuminated by skylights.

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