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Antenna Spat May Cost WTC Site 'Highest Tower' Title

Kevin Spak — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:07:40 CDT

The owners of the One World Trade Center tower are feuding with the tower's architects over the 408-foot antenna that will protrude from its roof, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Port Authority and developer Douglas Durst want to dispense with an ornamental white shell that was originally supposed to...

The 13 Most Worthless Majors

Matt Cantor — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:57:22 CDT

Hey, college students: If your life plans include getting an actual job, you may want to avoid the stars of the Daily Beast 's "most useless" majors list. Majors are ranked in terms of employment, taking into account unemployment rates among recent and experienced grads, earnings, and likely job growth...

Architecture Majors Can't Find Jobs

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:28:16 CST

Students majoring in the liberal arts or architecture may want to rethink their degree choices in light of the job market. Recent college grads armed with those academic credentials experienced higher rates of unemployment, a new study out of Georgetown's Center on Education and the Workforce shows. From the Washington...

Architects Apologize for Design Echoing 9/11

Mark Russell — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:00:00 CST

A Dutch architecture firm is apologizing for the design of a new luxury high-rise it announced last week, after people complained it was reminiscent of the exploding World Trade Center on 9/11, reports Reuters . Called The Cloud, the development in Seoul, South Korea, called for two white high-rises of 54...

Irish Bank Sues to Foreclose on Chicago Spire

Nick McMaster — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:32:01 CDT

It's supposed to be one of America's iconic skyscrapers, but Chicago's problem-plagued Spire is a step closer to being Irish-owned today after a lender filed to take possession of the under-construction project, the AP reports. Anglo Irish Bank has filed a $77 million foreclosure lawsuit against Irish developer Garrett Kelleher,...

Vegas Hotel 'Death Ray' Burns Tourists

Rob Quinn — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:55:55 CDT

Guests have been getting scorched by a phenomenon that staff at Las Vegas' new Vdara hotel have nicknamed "the death ray." The glass skyscraper magnifies the sun's rays into a shifting hot spot around the hotel's pool area strong enough to burn skin, singe hair, and melt plastic cups, ABC...

Rhino City Planned in Sudan

Rob Quinn — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:58:34 CDT

South Sudan is expected to become the world's newest independent country after a referendum next year, and planners are working to give it an eye-catching capital. Officials unveiled a $10 billion plan yesterday to rebuild the city of Juba in the shape of a rhino, and rebuild the region's second-largest...

London Plans 'Rival Eiffel' for Olympics

Rob Quinn — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:20:00 CDT

London is building a tower for the 2012 Olympics that officials hope will become as iconic as the one Gustave Eiffel built for the 1889 World's Fair. The 400-foot-tall structure of coiled metal, designed by artist Anish Kapoor, will tower over the Olympic site in East London. The spiral "is...

Gehry Gambles Big in Las Vegas

Caroline Miller — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:23:47 CDT

Designing a building that outdoes the already delirious Las Vegas skyline is no easy trick, but Frank Gehry is the man for it. Gehry tells the AP he wanted the nearly complete swirling stainless steel structure he built for the Cleveland Clinic's brain center to stand out from what he...