29 Palms
Here we are back at it again with another installment of the B&C newsletter. We’ve got a good batch of links this week (to make up for last week’s) so take a look and click any that grab your attention. I received some good submissions this week so a special thanks to those who sent links in - Hanna, Mark, Claire, Anaïs, Liana, Nils, Simon & Mateo.
Not sure where to start this week so I’ll kick it off with a great project by one of my favorite museums. Let’s get started.
The Noguchi Museum is inviting AAPI artists to submit designs for their outdoor banners advocating anti-racism
Tadao Ando's Casa Wabi is an artist's retreat that stretches along the Mexican coast (Why am I just learning about this now?)
A home designed to coexist with nature in Japan
A peaceful Japanese house surrounded by greenery
A couple who bought an abandoned farmhouse in rural Japan for $30,000 two years ago just finished renovating it
A designer’s Japanese-inspired Melbourne family home
This Hawaiian beach retreat has major laidback vibes
A relaxed California home with vintage touches and sky high exposed beams
This London home is inspired by 1970s California
The return of retro wood paneling
A wooden treehouse hovers above a blooming garden in Bali
Medellin returns to its tropical modernist roots
Naples, the city of ultra-modern archaism
German gallery rediscovers Berlin’s postmodern cityscapes in new exhibition
Critics mourn modernist French Railways House ahead of planned demolition
New film explores the free spirit of legendary architect Marcel Breuer
A farmhouse from the 19th century transformed into a modern retreat in Portugal
A warm, bright, eye-catching home in Australia
A home built within the shell of an old brick building
Industrial heritage meets natural beauty at this converted malthouse in England
A 200-year-old British townhouse gets a traditional renovation
A Shaker-inspired farm & fermentory in the Catskills
A turn-of-the-century apartment in Sweden with amazing historic features
A 1920s Barcelona flat trades confining walls for a green-painted partition
Bold colors and textures used in this Spanish apartment
This tiny Madrid apartment takes a radical approach to saving space
Unlocking architectural moments in small spaces
Icebergs, zombies and the ultra thin: architecture and capitalism in the twenty-first century
A new Manhattan for Amsterdam
Brooklyn borough president gives thumbs-down to proposed towers that would block sunlight to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
A napping corner in Hudson Square that’s also a playscape and lunch spot is the curbside architecture New York City needs right now
What remains of Olympic architecture, when the Games are over?
Why is the brutalist movement still so trendy?
Brutalist-style family of major Boston Arts benefactor home lists for $2.5M
A children's centre inside a brutalist building in Melbourne is decorated with pastel hues and rainbow murals
Architect draws on tradition to construct breathtaking school for girls amongst the sand dunes of India’s Thar Desert
NASA seeking volunteers to live for a year in Bjarke-Ingels-designed, 3D-printed Mars habitat
Architect teams up with Habitat for Humanity to build middle-income row houses in Austin
A supportive housing complex in Downtown Los Angeles rises in repurposed shipping containers
These new micro-apartments in New Jersey are addressing affordability through design
Everyone gets a stoop in this inside-out apartment building in Brooklyn
People living in dense cities are among the least happy
Workplace of the future is more clubhouse than cubicle
Is this the future of New York’s coffee carts?
A mysterious painting could be an earlier plan for one of Mies van der Rohe's most revered residential projects
Italian artist creates architecture-themed illustrations
Robert Longo shows charcoal drawings based on prominent paintings from the American Abstract Expressionist movement in new exhibition
An Indianapolis gallery debuts dozens of Andy Warhol drawings from the 1950s
How Andy Warhol left his mark on fashion
Why is there such a boom in Basquiat merchandise?
KAWS wants his new 18-foot-tall sculpture at Rockefeller Center to make you feel good
In Japan, a typhoon swept a giant Yayoi Kusama pumpkin sculpture out to sea
California man has pleaded guilty to peddling $1.1M in fake Richard Hambleton and Barkley Hendricks paintings
Why do forgeries sometimes deceive even the most venerable experts?
Banksy appears to have been busy recently
Francis Bacon’s former handyman has threatened to sue Tate because the works he donated are sitting in storage
Should you work at a gallery? (lol)
Join Printed Matter / St Marks this Saturday for a sidewalk launch and signing of Daniel Shepard’s new zine Los Amantes
Lastly, watch this short film that follows a 90-year-old fisherman who clears plastic from Bali’s coasts
That’ll do it for this week. Thanks for reading and I hope something in here brought you joy. Send to a friend and I’ll see you next week.
Thomas