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In 1988, Boston architect Antonio DiMambro proposed a flood-control structure from Deer Island to Long Island to close the mouth of Boston Harbor and protect Boston from storm surges and extreme high tides, allowing navigation and normal tidal flow through a series of gates. It could be done. It could be necessary.

Just like inner-city drug kingpins and high-seas pirates, architects also often find themselves eyeball to eyeball in deadly cutthroat fights. This time around, the Broken Bottle award goes to two firms trying to revamp the mouth of Copenhagen's harbor with a crazy bridge-building. One team wants to make two towers with a pedestrian walkway between

William Kristol, one of the principal architects of the neo conservative movement, has an astonishing ability to be wrong about pretty much everything he opens his mouth about. In a fairly challenging interview with the BBC's Stephen Sackur, Kristol makes another mind boggling assertion that the U.S can finance it's foreign policy adventures 'fine'

New Orleans resident Brad Pitt has put his money where his mouth is, spending $5 million of his own money to commission ten prominent architects to design low cost housing for the devastated lower 9th ward.

In 2050, there will be 3 billion more humans on earth than there are now. And 80% will live in cities. What does that mean? Basically, there will be more mouths to feed and less space to grow food. That's why architects are planning vertical farms tucked into the textured walls of skyscrapers.