Slate just posted a cool architecture slideshow based on the concept of “The Jenga Effect.” Maybe partially because I love board games—and growing up played a pretty sweet “Jenga” set handcarved by my uncle—I love how buildings like the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC look like precariously stacked building blocks. (Slate’s slideshow also highlights similar designs elsewhere in Manhattan as well as in Beijing, London, and Montreal.)
The slideshow reminded me of The Lacey, a new condo building here in DC that rubs shoulders with Shaw’s Florida Avenue Grill. Though the building’s edifice doesn’t have the same unsteady stack effect going for it as some of Slate’s offerings, the Lacey totally looks like a few blocks have been carefully plucked from the interior (à la Jenga), don’t you think?
Less Jenga, more Tetris, in my opinion.
No, Noah–I’m with Katie. I vote for Jenga!
But Jenga is a three dimensional Tetris, isn’t it?