The FXFOWLE-designed Museum of the Built Environment — which “aims to explore the role that social, economic, and environmental forces have played in the region’s constructed landscape, both historically and in recent times” – has begun construction in Riyadh. [via Architectural Record]

London’s 2012 transformation continues, as Cecil Balmond and Anish Kapoor near the half-way mark on the construction of their 300+ foot Olympic Tower. BD Online has a cool time-lapse sequence. [via BD Online]

Cooper-Hewitt has revealed the winners of their annual design awards – NY-based Architecture Research Office has won the architectural design category. [via Bustler]

A pre-Tsunami German plan to phase out the nation’s reliance on nuclear power has been accelerated amid concerns over a disaster-preparedness, with the target date for a complete nuclear shut-down now set for 2022. [via NYT]

by Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

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