“The architect behind New York’s Freedom Tower - built on the former site of the World Trade Centre - has announced that it is to construct what promises to be the world’s greenest office building,” the Telegraph reports.
Located in Gennevilliers, an outlying district of Paris, the proposed building titled “Energy Plus” will be the first [...]

According to the Telegraph, “A businessman in the desert Arab Emirate of Dubai has launched plans to faithfully reconstruct the French city of Lyon, right down to its cafés, cinemas and schools.” The 500 million euro megalopolis dubbed Lyons-Dubai will even “house a hotel school run by the institute of feted Lyon chef Paul Bocuse [...]

With the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing rapidly approaching, the Chinese government has recruited several bloggers and linguists to help ensure that the English portions of the city’s signs are properly translated and free of error.
Recently, the F-word has been popping up on many signs leaving government officials bewildered and expats amused. According to LAEM, [...]

Will energy harvested from the movement of pedestrians in high foot-traffic locales be the next big trend in renewable energy? Karl Sundholm, of the Swedish state-held property administration company Jernhuset, seems to think so.
He plans on using the body heat generated from the approximate 250,000 people that pass through Stockholm Central Station (the largest train [...]

The footwear obsessed folks over at Sneaker Freaker compiled Best of The Best 2007, a comprehensive analysis of the years coolest kicks. Although Adidas, Puma, New Balance and smaller more boutique brands like Visvim and Clae have had a solid year, Nike remains the most dominant player in the game.
Click here to read what some [...]

In The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City, author Elizabeth Currid articulates how the New York economy (one of the largest regional economies in the world) is propelled by the artists, writers, fashion designers and musicians that live there, equally as much as those in the white-collar/financial sectors. Since culture [...]