Earlier this week we were tracking with great interest another apalling example of theft in the cozy world of architecture: the undulating roofscape of the new plan for Moynihan Station. As several of you wrote to point out—"You fools think you're so clever...Dig deeper and you'll find the truth"—the fact pattern is apparently not as simple as "James Carpenter stole the idea from Norman Foster's winning entry to some old Smithsonian competition." It turns out, as the image above makes all too pathetically clear, Carpenter stole the idea from his wife, Harvard architecture dean Toshiko Mori! Talk about marital betrayal. Yet to be resolved: How did it come to pass that Lord Foster and Mori, um, converged on the same, um, concept in a previous, um, competition? Because they did. You know it. They so did.

· Moynihan Station Heist: The Damning Pics [The Gutter]
· Station Roof Stolen! Moynihan Rolls in Grave!! [The Gutter]

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