OK, this blog is going to be a bit contrived, but bear with me. The picture at the top came from the Sunday Times Style Magazine from last week - the one called "Design Fall 2005." The article was called "Studio System" and it was about Giussepe Lignano's (principal in LOT/EK) studio apartment in Manhattan. The apartment is kinda cool, but I was taken by the map-ish drawing above the bed (right side of top photo). So, I started looking for an image on the web of the piece or some close approximation. The artist's name is Top Changtrakul, who is pictured in the second photo (the guy who looks like Pond) with what looks like some variation on the piece in Lignano's apartment. Anyway, the web searching led me to a website for a project called The Snow Show, in which "some of today’s most exciting artists and architects have joined forces to design works out of snow and ice," including LOT/EK with Top Changtrakul - whose collaboration is shown in the third picture. Which leads to the final picture - the work of Zaha - just because I thought it looked cool.