This awesome story in the NYT about an architect who built a mystery into his renovation of an NYC apartment. It’s a longish read (and it’s a Kottke link so you’ve probably already read it) but it’s just too damn neat not to share.
THINGS are not as they seem in the 14th-floor apartment on upper Fifth Avenue…They are living in a typical habitat for the sort of New Yorkers they appear to be: an enormous ’20s-era co-op with Central Park views…But some of that furniture and some of those walls conceal secrets — messages, games and treasures — that make up a Rube Goldberg maze of systems and contraptions conceived by a young architectural designer named Eric Clough, whose ideas about space and domestic living derive more from Buckminster Fuller than Peter Marino.
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