This week the tallest skyscraper in the US secured full funding

This week on Dezeen, we revealed that the Legends Tower in Oklahoma – a 581-metre-high skyscraper set to be the tallest in the US – has secured the full funding needed for its construction.

According to reporting in local news outlet The Oklahoman, the supertall skyscraper is fully funded as of early March.

Designed for Oklahoma City, it is planned to be the tallest in the USA and would form the centre of the Boardwalk at Bricktown development. If built, it would be the fifth-tallest skyscraper in the world.

In other skyscraper news, California architecture studio Marmol Radziner completed The Beaudry, a black skyscraper that is now the tallest residential building in the state.

The 212-metre-high tower has a columned base reminiscent of mid-century American skyscrapers and contains 785 residential units.

In an opinion piece this week, we focused on another pair of California skyscrapers – the abandoned Oceanwide Plaza towers. Author Shane Reiner-Roth argued that the graffiti that now covers them is a physical manifestation of increasing tensions over the wealth disparities that blight downtown Los Angeles.

This week also saw a video showing the progress on The Line, a mega city that will stretch 170 kilometres across Saudi Arabia as part of Neom.

The video shows the site being cleared and prepared for the foundations and piling. The city is planned to consist of a pair of parallel skyscrapers that will each be 500 metres high, with this first phase set to be completed by 2030.

As part of our Social Housing Revival series, which continued this week, we took a closer look at two social housing blocks – the Bourne Estate in central London by Matthew Lloyd Architects and Caserne de Reilly in Paris where  a 19th-century barracks was transformed into affordable homes.

We also showcased photographer Thaddeus Zupančič's book London Estates from which he picked the 10 most influential examples of modernist council housing built in the UK capital in the post-war period.

In architecture news this week, the world's largest museum was captured ahead of its opening in Egypt. Called Grand Egyptian Museum, the 90,000-square-metre building was designed by Dublin studio Heneghan Peng Architects and will house more than 100,000 pharaonic artefacts from Ancient Egypt.

Also revealed were British studio Zaha Hadid Architects' plans for the Al Khuwair waterfront development in Muscat, Oman, which will include canal walkways and have a design "emphasising climate resilience".

In design, Fashion brand Coperni unveiled Air Swipe, a bag made out of 99 per cent air. Made from NASA-produced silica aerogel the lightweight bag was unveiled at Coperni's F/W 2024 runway show during Paris Fashion Week.

Its creator Ioannis Michaloudis told Dezeen: "it can withstand three times the speed of a bullet. And that's why [NASA] has selected the material to catch stardust."

Popular projects this week include an American coastal house designed to blend in with its forest setting, a Swedish retreat informed by Japanese temples and an Indian arts space with a flowing concrete form.

Our latest lookbooks featured living spaces with swings and interiors with aesthetic lamps.

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