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Dezeen's Weekly Roundup: Stone High-Rise, Folding iPhone, and 9/11 Memorial

Dezeen's weekly news roundup highlights innovative architecture, new technology, and significant cultural events.

A 10-storey building in London, Petra Heights, features a stone exoskeleton, described as a world first by designers Groupwork and Webb Yates. Additionally, Richard and Su Rogers' 22 Parkside house in London was gifted to the nation.

Apple launched its first folding smartphone, the iPhone Duo, marking a significant design change since the iPhone's 2007 debut and featuring the largest screen of any iPhone.

In New York, a drone show by Drift and Shigeru Ban recreated the Twin Towers using 2,977 drones to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The article also reviewed rebuilding efforts in Lower Manhattan.

With the NFL season starting, designs for four new or revamped stadiums were revealed for Washington DC, Kansas City, Charlotte, and Jacksonville.

Popular projects on Dezeen included a monolithic house, a timber home in Slovakia, and a canal boat bathhouse.

The Dezeen Weekly podcast discussed Dyson's first electric toothbrush and other key design and architecture stories from the past week.

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