– Will the Empire State Building Turn Green?: Its owner, Malkin Holdings, is spending $20 million in the hope of making the building use40 percent less energy. [Guardian] 

– It's Not Easy Being Green: Vanity Fair's significant architecture poll sees lots of senior-citizen architects voting for themselves, but too few voters defending greener buildings. [LAT]

– Ding, Dong, Art Inspector: The indefatigable SarahThornton pays a visit to the Mexico City studio of the great Belgian artist FrancisAlÿs, finding much that is intriguing. [Economist] 

– Plane Dumb: Artist Jan De Cock got a stern talking to from federal security agents after offhandedly making a joke to an air attendant about killing the pilot. [NYP] 

– You Can Never Go Home Again: The Toronto home of Ephraim Goldberg, better known in later years as architect Frank Gehry, is set to be demolished. [Curbed]

– RIBA Elects Angela Brady: The British architect is only the second woman to lead the esteemed organization. She is its 74th president. [ArtDaily]

– Art Restored to Mexico: Authorities in the country have reclaimed 144 looted religious artifacts, one of the most extensive historical examples of the restitution of cultural property. [ArtDaily]