City Design Gifts

'Oh yes, you need specific credentials to be a town planner.'

"All very impressive, gentlemen...but where are you hoping to find people tiny enough to live in them?"

'I'm sure that one wasn't there last week.'

Young Frank Lloyd Wright

Hollywood Sign Developers

"I built this tree house for my kids. But it's so private, I've decided to use it as my home office."

'Hmph. College kids.'

'And if you look to your left between the condos and the ABD store, you can see the ocean.'

Pipe Dream.

Leaning Tower -After a bottle, Jean noticed the tower stopped leaning.

"Of all the buildings I've designed, it's probably the most handsome."

Ancient Landmarks of New York City

"Like I could date a guy from Notre Dame."

Polar Bear ice fishing through igloo.

Fabrique en Francais (Made in France).

The Henderson's move to a vertical city took some getting used to.

"The woman on the fire escape who acted like it was a balcony"

Why it's bad when home owners change their minds about the bathroom's location late in a building project.

Wind-generated power. Wind turbines attached to Battersea Power Station's iconic chimneys

Sales chart is buildings in background.

"You don't think it's too ungapatchka?"

"As I understand it, after this scaffolding comes down the city will be done."

Repurposing the aqueducts of Ancient Rome.

"Thanks! Carl put his heart and soul into it, along with, of course, lots of mud and a boatload of his own saliva."

"Yes, I know they fit, it's just not what I pictured for a three car garage!"

"We're airship people, not mega-airship people."

'Wentworth Street, Whitechapel'

Another All Steel Home Built By Wit Construction.

"We're having one heck of a time building that trapezoidal thing of yours..."

"Early model of baggage claim"

Yoga classes door.

The Kitchen area of a Whitechapel Boarding House

'Humans are so considerate: They put perches like these for us on every one of their houses...'

Tree house.

"Sorry, the sound of your chewing sends me into a rage."