Maybe it's just because tabloid journalism and gossip has been forcefully thrust down our collective throats for the past million decades that, when we run across one of these Brad Pitt-as-architect stories, we feel like we have to talk like idiots. So here goes: as if it weren't already hot enough in Dubai, Brad Pitt is about to turn up the thermometer a notch when he arrives in the city to help consult on the designs for an American-themed hotel with Graft, the firm he worked with on his Pink Houses project with when things were getting steamy down in New Orleans. Ahem. Alright, that's about enough. We feel dirty and need a shower. While we go do that, here's a bit:

"Acting is my career, architecture is my passion," Pitt said in the statement. As "my first major construction project," the Dubai hotel will feature "environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment."

Detailed plans for the hotel and resort will be made public in the next few months, [development company] Zabeel said. The developer didn't give the project's exact location or say how much it would cost to build.