Shipping containers in architecture are a trendy meme right now. But this architect’s studio is a step above your average box home.

American Airlines’ filing for bankruptcy protection last week provoked surprisingly little reaction from the media or regular travelers.

One Lujiazui /Promo image Glass makes a glitzy building and is so easy for the architect and the developer, just pick a system out of a catalogue and get a subcontractor to do it and you are done. It is fast and modern looking and provides great views

by Jess Zimmerman. Architect Matthew Fromboluti designed this inverted skyscraper to make use of abandoned open-pit mining operations in Bisbee, Ariz

Photo: B. Alter The marathon of talks about every aspect of gardens lasted for two days.

by Christopher Mims. Architect David Hertz paid $35,000 for a jumbo jet at a scrap dealer that specializes in old airplanes. Then he had to get permission from 17 different government agencies to turn it into a house — including the FAA, which needed to determine that pilots flying over it wouldn't mistake it for an airplane crash site.

Images credit Peter Kunz Architectur A wealthy Italian client once told me to put a ceramic tiled floor with radiant heat under his Ferrari. He said “a Ferrari is like a woman, you have to give her a nice place to live and keep her warm.” I have no doubt that there are quite a few people who treat their cars better than their architects or their wives; perhaps some of them keep their Porsches in Architect Peter Kunz’s Garage studio in Herdern. …

by Tim De Chant.

My favourite entry in the Architect Barbie Dream House competition didn’t win, but hey, it is a people’s choice award, so it is hard to criticize the jurors. That didn’t stop Globe and Mail architectural critic Lisa Rochon, who asks “Oh, Barbie. You knuckle brain! What were you thinking!?..

? Here’s a teeny-tiny urban domicile that makes the 150-square-foot Hong Kong apartment that I featured last week look palatial in comparison: Architect/dancer Luke Clark Tyler’s 78-square-foot home/workspace in Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood.