The star architect, best known for his Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain, is a hot property.

FORBES: Build Your Own Bilbao

From Graves' Impala, one can see another Davis-backed building by a star architect, Robert Stern , dean of Yale's architecture school.

FORBES: The Glamour Factor

Designed by star architect Norman Foster and located on the northern shore of Victoria Harbor near the International Commerce Centre, it will include major performance venues, a flagship museum for contemporary visual art, a sizable park, rehearsal and studio areas, as well as dedicated spaces for recitals and shows when finally complete.

BBC: Cantonese opera pop-up whets Hong Kong��s appetite for art

From the museums, Al Corniche runs all the way to the glamorous Sheraton Doha Resort and the Manhattan-like skyscrapers that surround the jaw-dropping Burj Qatar, designed by French star-architect Jean Nouvel.

BBC: Going global in Doha

Add to the mix published reports that General David Petraeus - one of America's most prominent military officers as the four-star commander of Central Command and a leading architect of the Iraq surge - sees the lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian "peace process" as a threat to American servicemen and women in his area of responsibility.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: One more time