ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07: In this photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron talk during a bilateral meeting at 10 Downing Street on November 7

[Getty Images] - LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 07: British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are reflected in a mirror as they speak to the press ahead of a bilateral meeting at 10 Downing Street on November 7, in London

[MinnPost.com] - BERLIN, Germany — When Barack Obama traveled to the eastern city of Dresden with Angela Merkel in 2009, they stopped at the Frauenkirche, or Church of Our Lady. Leveled by Allied bombing raids in 1945, the towering landmark was painstakingly rebuilt

[AOL Energy] - Germany's renewables boom and Chancellora bunch of crazies (and assholes, to a certain extent), but I actually wish Peter Thiel luck and success in his creating man-made, floating independent nation states. Then all these libertarians can go read Atlas Shrugged in their own country and leave us the F alone.

While this article on Gaudi over at the Atlantic starts out with some typical BS about 'trends' in architecture in the 21st century (I don't think Gehry and the like are really 'trending', at least not as built projects), it is a nice little write up on Gaudi that reminds us he was ill.

AIA Consensus Construction Forecast is predicting continued declines in spending for non-residential and commercial projects through the end of the year, with a possible modest recovery in 2012. Super -