Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, which builds sustainable homes for those in need, has completed its first Frank Gehry–designed home in New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward. The LEED-certified house responds to vernacular architecture in the neighborhood.

The font used on a new Obama campaign signage is said to be inspired by Cuban propaganda posters—a “Communist typeface conspiracy theory in the making”! But Alexandra Lange sees less controversial influences, like hand-drawn fruit crate typography of the 1940s.

With the help of a design firm and licensed LEGO artist Sean Kenney, one Chelsea family has incorporated 20,000 of the colorful building blocks into the structure of their apartment.

Vienna’s experimental architectural group Haus-Rucker Co. (1967-1992)—subject of a new show at WORK London—created projects from two-person space capsules to parasitic structures. It’s “critique of architecture and architecture as critique at its best.”

British art dealer Kenny Schacter has commissioned architect Zaha Hadid to build him a custom boat. Preliminary images for the black, 8-meter-long Z Boat reveal “a fragmented, angular vessel sprung from a Christopher Nolan movie.”

Four years after the Beijing Olympics, the Ai Weiwei–designed “Birds Nest” stadium is “looking tired and empty.” The $480 million facility requires $11 million per year in upkeep and hosts money-making experiments, from Segway tours to indoor skiing.

Anthony Burrill, whose koan-like letterpress posters are part of Graphic Design: Now In Production (on view now at Cooper-Hewitt), has a new show in London based on workshops he led in São Paulo. Title: How to say the most with least.