Danielle Bowling . Articles Scyon Axon The brief for Ghersi Road, in the NSW Central Coast beachside town of Wamberal, was to design a stylish, low maintenance, low cost house with views over the ocean for an 'empty-nest' couple. Rant on Las Vegas' latest casino resort an "absurd simulacrum of another city", the failure of modern architecture and Lord Norman Foster delivers disappointing design for Yale. Open tenders The Moe Rail Precinct Revitalisation Project and the Tennant Creek Swimming Pool are among today's tenders. Global round up Light shines on Shanghai's solar powered pavilion, UK architects remain pessimistic and Chicago's carbon reduction plans get underway. Rant on Millennium arts projects result in "dark, vandalised" buildings, "poor planning" in Ireland and LA Live is "sorely lacking". Global round up New Office for Urban Development and Environment in Germany, British Airways flights go carbon neutral and open-air theatre causes controversy in Malta.