Friday, September 5:

• Beijing public transit commuters can now pay fares with empty bottles: Beijingers can insert a recyclable bottle and receive equivalent rebates in train fares or mobile phone credits.
• Community Bus Stops Transform Brazil: Thousands of Brazil's bus stops are unmarked, leading fed-up residents to install their own signage under the Que Ônibus Passa Aqui? (Which Bus Stops Here?) program, one of the world's biggest community projects.
• Town Becomes a Beer Ad, but Residents Don’t Feel Like a Party: Crested Butte, Colorado, population 1,500, was outfitted for a three-day party to publicize Bud Light, with 1,000 partiers vetted and shipped in by Anheuser-Busch. The town's Mayor agreed to host the party to the tune of $500,000, in part to help boost the town's mostly tourist economy during the difficult "shoulder" season between summer and winter.
• Gehry's Revised Eisenhower Memorial Loses Two Controversial Tapestries, But Concerns Remain: Nitpicking continues over the Memorial, in lieu of previous considerations to ditch the design entirely and snags in its approval process.
• Italy’s planned Holocaust museum moving to EUR, Mussolini’s expo site: Initially in 2005, the Museo della Shoah was going to be built on the grounds of Mussolini's former residence in Rome.

Thursday, September 4:

• NCARB revises "Intern Architect" title for architects pursuing licensure: While no changes have been made yet, NCARB's  "Future Title Task Force" will reconsider the official titles architects can call themselves throughout their careers.
• Foster + Partners and FR-EE collaboration to design new Mexico City International Airport: Collaborators on the project (which also include Netherlands Airport Consultants, NACO) have claimed that it will be one of the world's largest and most sustainable airports.
• Continued Delays For Housing at Atlantic Yards: The modular, mixed-use high-rise in the controversial neighborhood of Pacific Park (previously Atlantic Yards) was meant to be finished this July, but is only about a third complete, supposedly due to complications in the modular units' construction.
• Frank Gehry’s Design for the WTC Performing Arts Center Gets Dumped by Officials: The decade-old design's nixing came in the midst of more politics surrounding Gehry's Eisenhower memorial. The search for a new architect is currently underway.

Wednesday, September 3:

• Architecture vs. Housing: The Case of Sugar Hill: Built primarily for low-income or formerly homeless residents, the almost gloomy building stands in stark relief to the design of its surroundings, but also to prevailing attitudes that place social-housing out of the realm of architecture.
• Russia's Shukhov Tower is saved following a 91% smartphone vote in favor of keeping it: The iconic radio tower had previously been named a protected landmark by Moscow, after its initially proposed demolition prompted protests by prominent architects and a vote by Muscovites in general.
• National League of Cities creates advisory network to help cities deal with sharing economy businesses: It's the refrain heard throughout the tech-industry, that innovation often outpaces regulation, and it takes a while for laws to catch up with new technologies. Cities are trying to pick up the pace, by creating a model for dealing with current and new "sharing economy" businesses that overlap with city policy.

Tuesday, September 2:

• Olympic Infrastructure Displaces Brazilian Families: More than half of the families in Brazil's Vila União favela will be displaced to make way for TransOlímpica, the bus rapid transit system being built for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This is one instance of various predicted disruptions to Rio's atmosphere by Olympic developments.

Monday, September 1:

• Apple Campus 2 construction: house i-something is building: Photos of the "spaceship" campus' design were first unveiled about a year ago, and are now becoming reality in Cupertino.