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iFive: WikiLeaks on China-Google, U.S. Weak Spots Exposed, AOL-Yahoo Merger, Federal Femtocells, Apple's New Campus

Welcome to Monday morning. Drink up your coffee, and digest the early innovation news for breakfast:READ»

Why Can't the World's Best Architects Build Better Web Sites?

I'd love to write about your latest architectural masterpiece, I really would. If only your Web site wasn't such an information architecture disaster.READ»

Norman Foster on the Big Screen

Filmmakers Norberto López-Amado and Carlos Carcas release their documentary on the British architect.READ»

The Star-Studded Design of Vegas' $8.5 Billion CityCenter

This week will see the opening of Vegas' $8.5 billion CityCenter, the most massive collaboration of famous architects in recent memory.READ»

Calatrava's New Train Station and 8 More High-Speed Rail Hubs on the Horizon

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»

Another Small Step for Man: Spaceport America Breaks Ground

Tomorrow, America's first port for leisure space flight begins construction, with Virgin Galactic as its anchor tenant.READ»

Norman Foster's Plan to Save the Children: Build a School for Sierra Leone

Lord Foster designs a low-cost school for charity.READ»

The 10 Most Creative People in Architecture

Which architects have the most unusual, influential visions for the field?READ»

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Not a Hoax: Mecca Redesign Leaked [video]

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»

Norman Foster Fixes the Economy With $24 Million Super Yacht

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»

Why Starchitect Skyscrapers like Frank Gehry's Beekman Are Getting Chopped

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»

Norman Foster's No Good, Rotten, Very Bad Week

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»