Quoted: His early themes of Sunday leisure and local tourism gave way to enormous industrial plants, apartment buildings, hotels, office buildings, and warehouses. Family outings and hiking trips were replaced by the Olympics, a cross-country marathon involving hundreds of skiers, the German parliament, the trading floors of international stock exchanges, alluring displays of brand-name goods, and midnight techno music raves attended by casts of thousands. Gursky’s world of the 1990s is big, high-tech, fast-paced, expensive, and global. Within it, the anonymous individual is but one among many.

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I visited Arcosanti a couple of years ago. It's an interesting place to say the least :-). The article includes a slideshow.

Quoted: Paolo Soleri, a former student of Frank Lloyd Wright, began construction of this ecologically harmonious community in 1970. With its radical conservation techniques and a brilliantly scrunched-together layout, Arcosanti was intended to reinvent not just the city, but also man's relationship to the planet: picture a 60s vision of a Mars colony, but with a cutting-edge, eco-friendly design. ...Through a carefully managed density, the impact is minimal, and the idea of community is reimagined.

Now being built as part of a new capital city in the Northernmost Emirate of the UAE.

Quoted: Sheik Saud and Rakeen of Ras Al-Khaimah has appointed the Norwegian architecture firm Snohetta the prestigious task of creating an iconic gateway building for the new capital city of Ras Al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. The approx. 300,000 m2 complex will contain a Congress Center, Exhibition Halls, Shopping Center, 5+ Star Hotel, 5 Star Hotel, and a 4 Star Hotel.

Quoted: A plan by Russia’s state energy company for towers along the Neva River has drawn protests from critics who say the project will overshadow the old city.

This is an old article but it includes a slideshow of the proposed designs. The winning design is the giant "flame".

Quoted: The architect in charge of efforts to complete Antonio Gaudí’s unfinished masterwork La Sagrada Familia says the building is threatened by a planned train tunnel.

Quoted: Wrapped in a luxurious skin of colorful cast-glass panels, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision is the most gorgeous work to date by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk.