Whipped Cream Difficulties

I haven’t gone fishing in a long time, so let’s dig up some stinky old bait from the cooler and see what we can catch.

Vanity Fair asked a bunch of architects (as well as some architecture critics and “deans of architecture schools”) two questions:

• what are the five most important buildings, bridges, or monuments constructed since 1980?
• what is the greatest work of architecture thus far in the 21st century?

Here are the answers. Here is a slideshow (Warning! Slideshow!) of the top 21 buildings. Here’s a special slideshow (Warning! Slideshow!) of the work of one architect in particular. And here’s an article about that architect and his work.

This is also the Torment Lawrence Watch.

LAT architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne reviews the new Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, located in Las Vegas and designed by Frank Gehry.

I was going to complain about the lack of photos in the article. Looking online, though, it doesn’t look like there are that many photos of the building itself elsewhere, either; I suspect there may be photography limits imposed by Gehry, the Clinic, or both.