Santiago Calatrava's stunning Liège-Guillemins TGV station opened last month in Belgium. As energy and oil uncertainty and high carbon emissions make train travel more appealing, high-speed railways are being planned from Southern California to Saudi Arabia. Here are eight more high-speed rail stations coming soon.READ»
Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, is going to be redesigned, and a proposed master plan just leaked to YouTube.
Because of the extreme sensitivity of the project, details about the redesign have been sparse. Nonetheless, it ...READ»
This week, Lord Norman Foster arrived in Italy to launch his first super-yacht design, the $24 million Ocean Emerald. And, if you made some extra dough shorting bank stocks or simply need a cozy headquarters as you plot world ...READ»
Will a stunted economy leave us with stunted cities? Reduced building heights have become an unfortunate reality for a faltering construction industry, as architects are seeing their projects slashed in half, some ...READ»
Yesterday, Norman Foster, the architect behind such instantly-recognizable buildings as "The Gherkin" in London, and the Hearst Tower in New York, got burned by news that a tower his firm is building in Vegas would be halved, due to ...READ»
