Noah Chasin

The Earl of Snowdon—Princess Margaret's husband—teamed up with "anti-architect" Cedric Price and structural engineer Frank Newby to build an improbable, ambitious home for the London Zoo's birds.

You can take our cars when you pry them from our cold, dead hands.

Sometimes, it's the plans that never make it to bricks and mortar (or glass and steel) that turn out to have been the best. A new exhibition reveals how the New York skyline could have looked had certain architects got their way.