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"It was the most inconvenient and the most delightful place ever seen."

Wrote William Morris of Broadway Tower (which was built in 1799, to please the Countess of Coventry). The Tower... certainly was absurd: the men had…

"Why Sonia Sotomayor Came Out Okay Despite the Height of the Building She Grew Up In."

Despite that headline, John McWhorter doesn't really answer the question. He raises a lot more questions. Uncomfortable questions.

Quite the line-up of faces on Drudge right now.

We talked about the Pope's horrible scandal yesterday , so I'm not restarting that. I refuse to talk about the latest murderer (on the right)…

The Sistine Chapel.

An amazingly complete photographic view. (WARNING: some nudity.)

"It was the most inconvenient and the most delightful place ever seen."

Wrote William Morris of Broadway Tower (which was built in 1799, to please the Countess of Coventry). The Tower... certainly was absurd: the men had…

Babu Sassi, the man who lives in his crane, at the top of the Burj Dubai, the tallest building, and hasn't been down to the ground for over a year.

BLDGblog is entranced: Whether or not this is even true – after all, I never think truth is the point in stories like this – 1) the idea of appropria…

At the 2 Trucks Café...

... you can talk all night. And consider doing some shopping at Amazon via The Althouse Portal .

The hidden oil wells of L.A.

I wouldn't say these 4 designs are that clever or amusing, but you wouldn't think you were looking at an oil well.

" Why are Victorian houses so creepy?"/"As a child, I'd internalized this enough that..."

"... I thought 'haunted' was the name of the architectural style. I only found out I was wrong when I described my aunt's house as h…

The famous architect I.M. Pei has died at the age of 102.

I'm reading "Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Buildings/The architect’s legacy includes some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, inc…

"Cities are the world's experimental laboratories and thus a metaphor for an uncertain age."

"They are both the cancer and the foundation of our networked world, both virus and antibody." A double metaphor... a meta-metaphor? (Via A…

Houses made from bricks made of mushrooms.

"The mushroom brick is 'grown' by mixing together chopped-up corn husks with mycelium." Wake me up when you actually grow a house .…

"There are reports that Mr. Obama used to be skeptical of having a library at all..."

"... a bold move would be to revert to tradition and deposit his papers at the Library of Congress." Failing that, he should set himself ap…

Other rotundas.

We've devoted many hours to the rotunda of the Wisconsin state capitol. Today, we explored another state's capitol — a place of mystery... ..…

"Scenes from Surrendered Homes."

Link.

"One of our editors... found some Polaroids from 1977 that showed a large excavation project at The [Playboy] Mansion."

"We asked the new general manager at The Mansion about these photos. He said, very matter-of-factly, 'that’s probably when they built the tu…

Quite the line-up of faces on Drudge right now.

We talked about the Pope's horrible scandal yesterday , so I'm not restarting that. I refuse to talk about the latest murderer (on the right)…

Cityscapes.

"If people make the difference in a locale, that’s also true in Madison — unfortunately. In my dozens of trips to Wisconsin’s capital city..."

"... I found a pleasant area surrounded by many pristine lakes ruined by its residents. Collegians from around the country, their professors and…