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Do we really need architects? An eyeful of the Shanghai 2010 Mexico Pavillion and more

Park vs. parking: A Miami Beach Commission vote could sabotage an architect’s vision

Costs row brewing over Frank Gehry’s designs for the New World Symphony, as Miami Beach City Commission votes to cancel Gehry’s contract for design of park space. 

Stimulus, coming to a street near you

A $1.1 billion infrastructure spending budget has been announced for New York as part of the federal stimulus bill prompting mayor Bloomberg to launch an online site showing which projects are due to benefit. A number of other “shovel watch” sites have sprung up covering various areas of the US.

World Bank predicts poverty for Russia

Russia now not expected to recover quickly as originally predicted and economy expected to shrink by 4.5% 

Winning designs for the Shanghai 2010 Mexico Pavillion

The website is in Spanish, but the images are interesting. First place was given to SLOT, Mónica Orozco, Moritz Melchert, Juan Carlos Vidal, Israel Álvarez, Mariana Tello, and Édgar Ramírez, from Mexico City.

Do we really need architects?

Just one of the various articles discussing the growing trend for websites offering off-the-rack blueprints. A subject that really gets the bloggers going in the US at the moment.

And finally…

A rather odd looking building by Japanese firm Shuhei Endo.

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