Merry modernist Christmas

Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece of modern design, Fallingwater, realized as a gingerbread house.

(via Serious Eats).

Very few good lairs left these days

Some wonderful coverage in the blogosphere about Bannerman's Island, an honest-to-god castle (with moats and towers and everything) built on an island in the Hudson River by a 19th century arms merchant.

Man, you just don't see lairs getting built like that any more. Used to be, the first thing a rich guy did after making a pile of cash was succumb to Turrets Syndrome (sorry) and build himself a castle.

If I ever achieve my goal of becoming a wildly powerful and fabulously rich mad genius, I am *so* building me a lair, unless there are some pre-existing lairs on the market with nice features.

I wonder if I could put in a bid on this joint?

The bridges of New York County

A little homesick for Manhattan this morning.

Look what I found.

Big fun in Seattle

Carrie is having big fun in Seattle with Scott. Check out her appreciation of the public library downtown, complete with pictures:

Our haas is a very very very Koolhaas.

Indeed.