Libeskind, who has also just launched a new line of seating for Italian furniture maker Moroso spoke with record over the phone from his home in New York.

Architecture buffs will likely know the Sheats-Goldstein Residence as John Lautner’s Beverly Hills space-age masterpiece. Others may recognize it as pornographer Jackie Treehorn’s pad in the 1998 Coen Brothers' film, The Big Lebowski. Beginning today, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will consider it an impending part of its collection.

“He is not dreaming,” the Chicago Tribune confirmed in 1956 after an 87-year-old Frank Lloyd Wright declared that he could build a mile high skyscraper near the city’s Adler Planetarium.

On March 18, when the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens an annex at Madison Avenue and 75th Street in Manhattan, it will be attempting to shrug off the ghost of a museum past.

Luckily for lovebirds and cynics alike, Times Square’s gleaming new Valentine’s Day-themed pavilion invites all kinds of reflection.