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Misplaced IAC Building ARCHITECT: Frank Gehry

COMPLETED: 2007

SUPPOSED LOCATION: 555 West 18th Street, New York

CURRENT LOCATION: Unknown

The square-riggerish IAC Building is Frank Gehry’s only work inspired by a Monty Python song. “As a boy growing up in landlocked Albania, I always wondered: What did happen to the accountant’s’ office when it sailed off the edge of the Earth in ‘Accountancy Shanty’? Was it smashed to bits? Did it disappear into a void?” Gehry mused. “I like to believe that it landed on a desolate, sandy plain, a vision I’m so glad IAC shares.” Gehry is currently working on an architectural adaptation of that scene in The Meaning of Life when the fat man explodes.

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