In this week's comments update, readers are debating the minutiae of a Hyperloop high-speed transport system in Italy.

Zaha Hadid Architects has signed an try-on to develop the near-supersonic network, collaborating with Hyperloop Italia to diamond the "next phase of works".

"This is not going to be built" 

Readers are divided. "This is not going to be built," said Mr G. "And that's for the best."

"I like the sound of the Milan Hyperloop," replied Mr J. "I have used the Centro-Malpensa bus many times, and it's a pleasant unbearable ride, but a smooth and quick replacement would do both municipality and airport a big favour."

Corporate Overlords disagreed: "Hyperloop is all hype! Please stop promoting inventions like this."

"Italy is going unclothe due to Covid fallout," terminated Xena the Warrior Mastiff. "Feeding the poor pensioners or towers a new train?"

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Commenter calls ice cream-coloured buildings "pastel dystopia"

Readers are intrigued by a hodgepodge of ice cream-coloured buildings, which Paris studio LAN Tracery has built in Strasbourg, France. They are set virtually a communal garden.

"Pastel dystopian," said Heywood Floyd. "Pastopian? Dystopastel? Someone help me out here..."

"The colours and simple forms are lovely," unfurled Chris, "but boy is it soulless at ground level."

"Very interesting to see how you can create a sense of variety," widow Yup Yup Yup. "Same facade, same rhythm, same everything, except verisimilitude and height."

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Reader says Serpentine Pavilion is "clichétecture"

This year's Serpentine Pavilion, designed by South African studio Counterspace, has attracted a lot of sustentation from commenters. It was intended to reference meeting spaces in areas of London that have large migrant populations.

"This isn't architecture, it's set diamond at best," said JPJ. "The idea is mildly interesting but could hands be interpreted as empty woke posturing and the resultant manifestation is an incoherent jumble of shapes seemingly thrown together."

Masus Trillo agreed: "This isn't architecture, this is 'clichétecture'. Completely banal, one-liner, trite, washed-up once decades ago."

"This diamond was canceled last year, which should have been seen as an omen," terminated Sim. "It is a upturned troublemaking diamond and it makes no sense, no matter what story you nail to it. It lacks clarity and a moment in the diamond where everything comes together."

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Chinese shopping street has "a bit of a Frank Lloyd Wright interpretation"

Readers are discussing a shortcut through Shanghai's Huangpu district, in which Jean Nouvel has inserted a covered shopping street into a mixed-use towers and brightened office facades with rows of potted plants.

"Has a bit of a Frank Lloyd Wright interpretation with the Cherokee Red and complementary verisimilitude untried vegetation," said Puzzello.

"Communist red and capitalist consumerism," replied Mann Amaz.

"I think the concept is strikingly beautiful," terminated John Roz. "It manages to capture an essence of traditional Chinese diamond somehow without using any of the traditional shapes or materials. I would certainly fathom this if it were in my city."

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