$300 Million Offered to Any City That Won't Hire Frank Gehry

We’ve loved writer Joe Queenan since as far back as we can remember (we have some particularly fond memories of reading his response to the overnight success of director Robert Rodriguez in his book The Unkindest Cut). It makes us even happier when, every once in a while, our little design-based world collides with his. A few months back, Queenan wrote a terrific piece about New York’s art deaccessioning plans. Now he’s written a bit about architecture, claiming to have found “an Iowa-based philanthropist and architecture aficionado” who will pay any city in the world $300 million if