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There's an ancient design dictum that says the really great buildings, looks-wise, would make perfect bases for glass-topped coffee tables, were those buildings shrunk to room-sized proportion. Seems that most of our readers would enjoy having a miniaturized Idea City, with its tastefully conflicting bricks and glass panels and shapes and colors, supporting the silicate upon which is strewn the remains of the morning's klatsch. Certainly, it - like the actual-sized example of brash architecture near the frenzied crux of Sixth & Lamar - would make a terrific conversation piece, at the very least.