News Junkie

Foster’s green light in Moscow and sad news from LA

So, yesterday News Junkie was wondering what to give Norman Foster for his birthday and got some entertaining responses (some not suitable for publishing). But now the city of Moscow has trumped us all by coughing up the funds for Foster’s stalled Zaryadye project.

It’s a sad day in LA as the Museum of Contemporary Culture sheds in architecture curator. And the Italians stage one of the most visually arresting protests News Junkie has seen thus far, placing a toilet and lots of toilet paper outside Richard Meier’s Ara Pacis museum.

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An attack on Italy’s lack of earthquake proof architecture and zero energy housing in Malaysia

It’s been a bumper day for international news from Italy, to Russia to Poland

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