Friday, August 29:

• MIT's MindRider helmet draws mental maps as you bike: The prototype is currently being used to create a mental-map and guidebook for NYC, and an upcoming Kickstarter campaign will attempt to fund the project for commercial sale.

• In Beirut, a grassroots push for more grass: Lebanon's fifteen-year civil war made much of Beirut's green space inaccessible or dysfunctional. The Beirut Green Project is trying to bring at least a modicum of green space back to the city's residents.

Thursday, August 28:

• Norwegian artists plan to open art academy in North Korea: Nothing's final yet, but the school is committed to its disbelief in sanctions or boycotts on art.
• Alvar Aalto gets a close look from Google's Cultural Institute: Google's cameras go inside the famous Finnish architects studio, as well as a selection of his works, for a curated photo-exhibition.

Wednesday, August 27:

• China considering drastic ban on coal: Chinese news outlets claim that work is underway to ban coal in Beijing by 2020, but plans are still smoggy at this point, and some fear such a drastic measure could in fact exacerbate global warming.
• After 11 Years of Controversy, Atlantic Yards Becomes Pacific Park Brooklyn: The name change for the controversial "mega-development" comes after protests and bad press galore plagued the project's construction since 2003.
• Paris and its Suburbs Will Join to Become the Métropole du Grand Paris: The Parisian government hopes the merger will help assuage social issues in the suburbs, as well as ease access to urban infrastructure.
• Spiralling Tensions at Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture School: The architecture school is at odds with their overseers, the board of directors for the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, for a decision that will lose the school's accreditation by 2017.

Tuesday, August 26:

• At Long Last, You Can Spend the Night in Ikea's Fake Homes: Airbnb partnered with an IKEA outside of Sydney, Australia, to offer up one-night stays in a few of its model interiors.
• Park City Rejects Bjarke Ingels' Kimball Art Center Designs - Again!: Concerned with BIG's failure to incorporate the "Old Town" guidelines, city hall rejected the plans for a second time.
• Hearing begins for "modernist" North Carolina home threatened with demolition: Construction was stalled when a neighbor complained that it's style wouldn't fit in with the historic neighborhood (see above). Deliberations are now underway as to whether the house must change its aesthetic, or be destroyed.
• Recently-Discovered Underwater Methane Leaks Contribute to Global Warming: The leak is located off of North America's eastern coast, at a depth where ice and methane gas can combine to form a substance 20x more harmful than CO2.

Monday, August 25:

• Scientists Propose Using Lasers to Fight Global Warming: Two separate proposals at a geoengineering conference proposed using lasers to dispel or mitigate the existence of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere.
• Help Preserve Frank Lloyd Wright's Spring House: Nonprofit group Spring House Institute is hoping to acquire the house through a crowdsourcing campaign.
• Solar energy that doesn't block the view: Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a transparent solar concentrator, that can be used to collect solar energy while laying invisibly on top of windows.
• Martin Filler issues a retraction regarding his "mistake" in his critique of Zaha Hadid: Previously, Filler had criticized Hadid for her indifference to inhumane working conditions on the building site of her Al Wakrah stadium in Qatar. His retraction comes in light of the fact that the conditions he cited predate Hadid's stadium, which had not began construction at the time of his criticism.