Month: December 2025
Star “Deconstructivist” Architect, Frank Gehry RIP
Frank Gehry, the Canadian-American star architect, died earlier this month (December 2025) at the age of 96. We’ve come across and admired many of his iconic buildings on our travels and have featured them on the blog before; here, we’re bringing together a selection of those photos as a small tribute. Spacious and shimmering, this
Random Moment #32 — Heart of Glass
Pop mashups that include a contemporary composer’s work turn out to be rarer than we first assumed. Here are a few good examples—Blondie × Philip Glass, Dinah Washington layered over Max Richter, David Bowie + Steve Reich, and Brian Eno x Igor Stravinsky. We tried but cannot find any mashup involving works by John Cage