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The Break Bakers Build Team USA has won the top prize at the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, a grueling Olympic-style competition held in Paris every three years.

Both the earthquake and the tsunami damaged buildings and killed people in Indonesia's Aceh province. Many houses are chest-deep in mud. NPR's Melissa Block talks to reporter Paul Dillon.

NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on some low-cost but high-tech and efficient building structures proposed to house refugees displaced by the Indian Ocean tsunami.

NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports on the battle over architectural landmarks in Russia's former imperial capital of St. Petersburg. Many of the buildings are deteriorating, and the government is considering selling some of them.

Now that it's emerging from bankruptcy in record time, what's next for GM? Getting out of bankruptcy is one thing — building and selling millions of cars that consumers want may be a bigger challenge.

An earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra badly damaged buildings along the coast, killing several people and triggering tsunami warnings for much of the Indian Ocean region.

When Purdue professor Daniel Aldrich and his family evacuated New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina destroyed their home, they took only the essentials. Although they applied for federal aid, Aldrich says it was his his social networks that came through for his family when they needed help most.

The bittersweet tune is about a man leaving the Michigan town to find the true meaning of America. Now, the lyrics to the 1968 song have been appearing on vacant buildings around Saginaw, a city that fell apart after General Motors closed its factories in the area.

The new Walt Disney Concert Hall, with its swooping lines of stainless steel, is giving Los Angeles' dull downtown a starkly different look. NPR's Susan Stamberg takes a hard-hat tour with the hall's designer, world-famous architect Frank Gehry. See a photo gallery of the project.

Workers added a steel column this afternoon, making the skyscrapere 21 feet taller than the observation deck at the Empire State Building. That's a symbolic return to the sky for a site destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.