Starchitects, Bridges, Drought: What’s Ruining Our Cities This Week

Starchitects, Bridges, Drought: What's Ruining Our Cities This Week

Starchitects don’t build ’em like they used to—and now one’s getting sued for it. Chris Christie remains in troubled waters over a bridge. And if you thought the Polar Vortex was bad, how about the looming Emergency Drought? It’s all this week in What’s Ruining Our Cities.

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Anyone can take a tour of this waste treatment plant in Valencia, Spain, to check out its automatize

Anyone can take a tour of this waste treatment plant in Valencia, Spain, to check out its automatized trash-sorting systems. The Israeli architects who designed the 759,600-square-foot system describe it as a public observatory, a place to "contemplate" contemporary life. After all, some archaeologists claim that sorting garbage is "the ultimate zen experience of our society." [Architizer]

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