by Ian Rowley – December 19, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com
Considering the environment for auto sales in Honda’s (HMC) two largest markets, Japan and North America, company chief Takeo Fukui looked remarkably relaxed as he delivered his outlook for the year ahead in Tokyo Dec. 19. It didn’t take long to understand why. During the address [...]

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by Reena Jana – December 13, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com
The building boom in the capital of the United Arab Emirates rivals that of Dubai. But Abu Dhabi hopes to distinguish itself with ambitious green architecture.
In recent weeks, the rivalry between neighboring United Arab Emirates Dubai and Abu Dhabi has been heating up on a world stage—most [...]

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by David Cohn – December 12, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

A civil judge in Bilbao, Spain, has ruled against Santiago Calatrava in his suit challenging Arata Isozaki’s addition to his 1997 footbridge over the Nervión River. The addition was built without Calatrava’s knowledge and opened last February. In the first test of Spain’s [...]

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August 17, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

The skyscraper has had more comebacks than Cher. From its humble, naive beginnings in Chicago after the fire of 1871; its idealistic representation in early European Modernism; its apex as the glam symbol of American corporate eminence; its bimbo phase in Postmodernism; its more recent dalliance with [...]

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by Dianna Dilworth – August 17, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Japanese architect Shigeru Ban, known for his cardboard houses, has just installed his latest endeavor in the paper-building world—a temporary bridge over the Gardon River, in the south of France. The 7.5-ton structure is made of 281 of Shigeru’s trademark cardboard tubes, each [...]

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by Barbara J. Saffir – August 6, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Burrowed 50 feet into a hillside near Washington, D.C., this former Federal Reserve Bank once held billions in cash. BAR Architects and SmithGroup have overseen its transformation into the new National Audio-Visual Conservation Center for the Library of Congress.
The nonprofit Packard Humanities [...]

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by Dianna Dilworth – August 1, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Foster + Partners is designing the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city in Abu Dhabi. Named Masdar City, which means “the source,” the 1,483-acre project will include commercial and manufacturing space dedicated to developing ecofriendly products, housing, a university, and the headquarters for Future [...]

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by Jenna M. McKnight – July 18, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com

Harlem has seen a flurry of residential and retail developments in recent years. Now the northern Manhattan neighborhood is slated to get its first major office building in three decades—a striking glass tower designed by Swanke Hayden Connell Architects (SHCA). Named [...]

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by Jessie Scanlon – June 12, 2007 via BusinessWeek.Com
Innovation often arises out of crossing disciplines and combining technologies. That’s the focus of our look at ten cutting-edge designers
The Frisbee. The escalator. Reinforced concrete. These very different inventions share one thing in common: They weren’t invented exactly—each was borrowed from an unrelated field. The flying toy [...]

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