It certainly can be. The cost to have a decent kitchen in NYC is crazy though, so not buying an apartment with a kitchen more than makes up for the additional cost of take-out. As far as health, I ate all that stuff in moderation (1 slice of pizza for dinner). Self control is a must in the no-refrigerator scenario.

Pizza, Middle-Eastern, Sushi, Bagels, Dominican. I just ate take-out all the time. Actually I still do.

For those of you wondering who the 5% of non-refrigerator households might be, I'm one. My last two apartments in NYC had kitchens so tiny that it didn't make sense to even boil water. I kept my refrigerators unplugged and used their shelf space as shoe storage.

It brings a smile to my face every time I hear about another "Tower-in-the-Park" project getting demolished. Can you imagine thinking that the poor would benefit from being uprooted from their familiar surroundings and stacked into featureless buildings separated from other zones and ground-level activity? "Why…

I love the lack of depth in this video. It's like Wes Anderson made a movie about a fastidious air traffic controller at England's windiest airport.

After someone gets Batman an invite please get me one. We have no children, neither of us owns our own business, and only one of us is in Grad school. (I just really hate grocery stores)

I could talk to you all night, girl, but I'm about to make myself disappear. The final thing you must know about me is . . .

Your lululemon looks great from this angle. I'll catch you, no problem. I'm super in-shape from my other passion:

... and they only involve you, girl.

Careful! Once you buy Lucas a drink, he tends to stick around

Buy the guy a round.

Found her brother:

Yep. She's in one of those annoying sidebar ads I see all the time.

Only Wes Anderson could enforce symmetry on Owen Wilson's nose.

Great article! I generally agree although I have to wonder what you would have written about in the late 20s / early 30s when nearly-identical Art Deco skyscrapers were going up in every US city. We revere them today as examples of the machine age and aspiration modernity but under your rubric they should be derided…

That 1865 ocean currents map is from 1685. You swapped numbers.

This effect was a contributing factor in the crash of Air France 447. In certain atmospheric conditions, supercooled water is basically suspended in air. When it hits a solid surface, in this case the airspeed indicators of the plane, it turns into a solid block of ice instantaneously:

You were being sarcastic when you said the project continues "apace", right?

Every FLW building has had MAJOR issues due to his unorthodox use of poured concrete, the Guggenheim included. Fallingwater had to be pretty much rebuilt. That being said, these examples are far smaller than the Bilbao art museum or 8 Spruce, so their NEED to be adapted is likely smaller as well. On the flip side,…

Great article. But it's even worse than you describe. Not only are his buildings generally not compelling, but they lack the basic building blocks of sustainability. No, I'm not talking about LEED certification or anything like that. I'm talking about the long-term viability of his structures. Due to the fact…