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Every year more than hundred mosques are to be built all over Europe. This leads to controversies and misunderstandings. In Euro Islam Architecture: New Mosques in the West, Christian Welzbacher writes about the consequences of this development for architecture and society. Welzbacher speaks about the subject of his book in this video.

Architecture student Magnus Larsson details his bold plan to transform the harsh Sahara desert using bacteria and a surprising construction material: the sand itself.

One day in this hot, late summer of 2009, a collective of artists dressed up as city workers painted a continuous red line on the streets of my neighborhood that demarcates a territory of at least two square kilometres. They called it RedRedLand. But hey, my house was just outside of this territory! I felt somewhat excluded.