* WHAT…Southeast winds 15 to 25 mph with gusts 35 to 45 mph.

* WHERE…A portion of southwest California.

* WHEN…Until 3 PM PST this afternoon.

* IMPACTS…Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution.

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* WHAT…Southeast winds 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph
expected.

* WHERE…Interstate 5 Corridor and Northern Ventura County
Mountains.

* WHEN…Until 7 AM PST this morning.

* IMPACTS…Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects. Tree
limbs could be blown down and a few power outages may result.
Winds this strong can make driving difficult, especially for high
profile vehicles. Use extra caution.

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By Oscar Holland, CNN

(CNN) — For American architecture, 2025 may be remembered for the deaths of icons Frank Gehry, Robert A. M. Stern and Ricardo Scofidio, a mastermind of New York’s High Line. More likely, however, it will go down as a year dominated by Donald Trump — his preference for classicism and disdain for brutalism; his controversial demolition of the White House’s East Wing; his clashes with the designer of the ballroom replacing it; and his administration’s move to exclude architecture from its list of “professional” degrees.

Much of this has brought the presidency into direct conflict with the industry’s largest professional body, the American Institute of Architects (AIA). It perhaps came as no surprise that, amid the threat of national navel-gazing, the organization announced that it is awarding this year’s prestigious AIA Gold Medal to a non-American, Japan’s Shigeru Ban, for the first time this decade.

Globally, there has been lots to celebrate. China’s Liu Jiakun won the Pritzker Prize, the “Nobel of architecture,” for his understated academic and cultural buildings. A social housing development in London and a humble concrete church in Spain’s Canary Islands meanwhile beat out flashier competition to win two of the profession’s other biggest prizes.

But 2026 may be shaped by bigger, blockbuster buildings. Among them are long-awaited museums, record-breaking skyscrapers and a soaring Catholic basilica almost 150 years in the making. Here are 11 of architecture projects — in the US and beyond — set to become the year’s most talked-about:

Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

Some 144 years after it broke ground, the world’s longest-running construction project is nearing completion. Well, in a sense.

Work on Sagrada Familia’s sculptures, decorative detailing and proposed main staircase will likely stretch into the 2030s. But this year should see the 564-foot-tall Tower of Jesus of Christ, the basilica’s 18th and final spire (the 17 shorter ones are dedicated to the 12 apostles, four Evangelists and the Virgin Mary), finished in time for the centenary of architect Antoni Gaudí’s death in June.

Gaudí only lived to see the first tower completed. The sheer complexity and decorative intricacy of his design, a surreal marriage of Gothic, Art Nouveau and nature-inspired forms, is partly behind the mind-boggling construction timeline. But funding shortfalls, bureaucratic hurdles and the Covid-19 pandemic all contributed, too.

Perhaps the greatest challenge was the destruction of Gaudí’s drawings and plaster models in 1936, when his workshop was set on fire amid the Spanish Civil War. Whether he would have approved of the church’s final form — which is the best estimation of his plans by subsequent generations of architects — will never be known. Though he probably wouldn’t have minded the wait. “My client is in no hurry,” Gaudí famously once said. He was, of course, referring to God.

Juan Montesló

Palm Springs, Calif. (KUNA) – Con la llegada del año nuevo, Agua Caliente Casinos se preparó para recibir a miles de visitantes en una noche llena de celebración.

Mientras que en la sede de Palm Springs, los asistentes podrán disfrutar del tradicional espectáculo de fuegos artificiales, el casino de Cathedral City ofrecerá un show de drones, donde más de 500 van a estar en el aire, convirtiéndose en el primer y más grande show de drones de Año Nuevo en el Valle de Coachella.

Lo que para algunos es importante celebrar el año nuevo con la quema de fuegos artificiales, grupos sensibles y con problemas respiratorios, difieren en emplearlos, el efecto negativo que producen los fuegos artificiales en la salud de quienes padecen problemas respiratorios es colosal.

“En los últimos ocho años que llevamos a cabo el monitoreo, las horas más contaminadas de la  ciudad son las noches del 24, la mañana del 25 de diciembre, el 31 de diciembre y la mañana del primero de enero”, comentó Alberto Mexia, director de la asociación civil REDSPIRA, encargada de monitorear la calidad del aire.

Según datos de Riverside University Health System, el Valle de Coachella presento durante su último estudio un total de 424 visitas mensuales a emergencias medicas, relacionadas con la mala calidad del aire.

“Hay una discusión eterna entre los que están a favor de la pirotecnia y los que estamos pues no a favor”, expreso Mexia.

Manténgase al tanto de las novedades en telemundo15.com

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By Martin Goillandeau, James Legge, Sandi Sidhu, Laura Sharman, CNN

(CNN) — Several people have been killed and others injured in a fire at a new year’s party at an Alpine ski resort in southern Switzerland, a police spokesperson said Thursday.

Gaetan Lathion, spokesperson for police in the canton of Valais, said the “fire broke out around 1:30 a.m. at Le Constellation lounge bar in Crans-Montana.” He said about 100 people were inside the venue at the time.

“There are several injuries and several fatalities.”

Large crews from the emergency services immediately responded and rushed to the scene. Rescue efforts are still ongoing and the area has been closed off with a no-fly zone in place over Crans-Montana, police said.

Officers confirmed the fire started inside the lounge bar but said the cause remains unknown. They did not give an exact figure for those killed and injured in the fire, which struck in an area known for high-end holiday resorts.

A press conference will be held with police and the regional public prosecutor at around 10 a.m. (4 a.m. ET).

One of Switzerland’s most exclusive locales, Crans-Montana is famed for its year-round sunshine, which it owes to its position on a south-facing plateau in the Rhone Valley.

The area – 1,500 meters above sea level – offers sweeping Alpine vistas stretching from the Matterhorn to Mont Blanc, one of Europe’s highest peaks.

Tourists are drawn by its understated glamor, with high-end shopping and fine dining as well as extensive ski slopes and a lively apres-ski scene.

With a small population of around 15,000, the area is said to have a close-knit community as well as being a low-key place for celebrities to go skiing, golfing and dining.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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