Checkerboard Apartments on Page St

There's a whole street of these near the Regency Cafe. Walking down that street feels like you're in the "Don't Come around Here No More" video.

The Aerie from the Air

Thanks to Patrick and his Cirrus, we were able to track down Lautner and Associates' aerie in Solano County. Last time we saw this place was our wedding.

Here are some nice ground-level shots of the house.  And a video of messing around with the lighting in the pool at night. 

National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center, outside Chapel Hill, NC.

Château Cerisy-la-Salle

Buildings and grounds at Le Centre Culturel International in Cerisy-la-Salle, Normandy. We just completed a massive, week-long conference at the Château on "Meaning, Context and Implicit Content" with around 60 participants.

Turku Cathedral

Turku Cathedral, down the street from Åbo Akademi.

Pergamonmuseum

The Pergamonmuseum is Berlin's massive museum of ancient art and architecture. The only thing that would make it more impressive would be if it itself was taken apart, shipped to some distant country and, like the Pergamon Altar, enclosed in an even more enormous museum.

Villa Savoye

Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye is at the end of one branch of the RER A line, about an hour outside of Paris.

Therme Vals

Peter Zumthor's thermal baths in Vals, Switzerland. The baths had different themes: an outdoor bath that was covered in fog, a "fire" bath that was very hot, an "ice" bath that was very cold, a bath full of flower petals, a high-ceilinged cave room that had very weird acoustics, usw. The night swimming one evening was accompanied by two guys banging on gongs and other percussion instruments.

Parc de la Villette

Parc de la Villette, an enormous, weird, Alphaville-like park in northeast Paris.

Amiens Cathedral

The Polychromie sur la cathédrale d'Amiens.

Pictures from the last trip to Amiens.

Façade

Before brunch today we tracked down Les Spécialistes, a building façade installed by some conceptual artists and discussed here. Looks like someone took the doorknob.

Seattle Central Library

The Seattle Central Library by Rem Koolhaas.

Cedar Creek Treehouse, Part II

The Treehouse Observatory, Rainbow Bridge, and Stairway to Heaven at the Cedar Creek Treehouse near Mount Rainier in Washington State.

Cedar Creek Treehouse, Part I

The Cedar Creek Treehouse near Mount Rainier in Washington State.

Glass House vs. Farnsworth House

The Farnsworth house is more beautiful, but the Glass House's central fireplace/bathroom cylinder is a more inspired solution to the plumbing problem. And the kitchen area in the Glass House doesn't block the view through the house, which is a major advantage.