The company has vowed to donate one per cent of every home solid to the Cosmic Foundation Initiative, which is "dedicated to providing affordable housing and clean energy to children who were displaced by war".
Yes, some of his experiments – the B of Bang, the Garden Bridge, Vessel – have run into trouble: a structural engineering mistake, a political football and a high-profile urban ornament that sadly attracted more than its share of darkness and tragedy; but better surely to push the envelope and risk failure than take the tried and tested – the boring – route.
"By prioritising comfort and functionality, these carefully chosen pieces added the perfect finishing touch to our client's commercial space, catering to the modern needs of businesses in workstations and breakout areas," said JEB Group.
According to the FT, this included "interviewing colleagues, family members and friends who were confided in by the women, as well as reviewing contemporaneous emails, documents and text messages."
The couple found another midcentury home built in 1962 in the Granada Hills neighbourhood of Los Angeles, which they set about remodelling in "an eclectic hacienda style with Mexican and Scandinavian influences".
Citing reforms that were introduced in 2010 and further developed in 2017, Johnson continued, "we have a curriculum at the moment [...] that is completely outdated in terms of its excessive emphasis on a very narrow range of academic subjects."
Dezeen's editor Tom Ravenscroft spoke to human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and ALQST, which said that architecture studios "can't ignore" abuses connected to Neom anymore and must "urgently reflect" on their involvement in the project.
