Dezeen Agenda US features plans for a fire memorial in Los Angeles

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In this US edition of our Dezeen Agenda newsletter, we reported on videos of an electric flying car in California, a world-record-setting self-driving Maserati racing car, and a mission to the moon with the BIG-designed hard drive launched aboard a SpaceX rocket.

The newsletter also featured plans for a mass-timber building at Boston University by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Students at Virginia Tech worked with designer Ben Pennell on an experimental house with an exoskeleton structure, while a Florida International University study in Houston concluded that derecho winds can cause more damage to skyscrapers than hurricanes.

Snøhetta was also included in our American coverage with the studio renovating a Miami warehouse for the second location of the Museum of Sex.

Meanwhile, following the devastating wildfires in LA, local architects proposed plans to preserve a century-old facade as a memorial in the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood.

The latest newsletter also reported on Trump's signing of an executive order calling for an increase in the volume and speed of domestic timber production, designs for a series of 3D-printed houses in Texas and the expansion of San Antonio airport.

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