Walking to the office is not a good idea when it's blistering hot out.

Reed Kroloff gives us a new lens for judging new architecture is it modern, or is it romantic? Look for glorious images from two leading practices and a blistering critique of the 9 11 planning process.

BERKELEY Earlier this year, Robert Simons of Harvard Business School fired off a blistering indictment of American businesses and business schools. American companies, he charged, have become softheaded, unfocused, and uncompetitive, in part because business schools are persuading them to embrace a long list of gauzy, feel good values, such as social responsibility, environmental sustainability, and inclusiveness.

Those of us who live with wet weather tend to curse it, but if we faced week after week of blistering sun with no prospect of clouds in sight, we would be in real trouble. Nearly a billion people on the planet manage their lives with serious water shortages, and their circumstances are only likely to worsen with climate change and rapid urbanization.