30 Rock
Hi. Me again. Welcome to this week’s newsletter. Special shout-out to Mark, Jeanne, Ian, Jan, Victoria, Marco and Charlotte for sending links my way. I’m kicking it off today with some local NYC-related news before getting into the usual flow of things.
New documentary about artist Dash Snow is showing in NYC for one week only starting tonight
How the art world came to embrace skateboard culture
The renegade skate-ramp builders of New York
Two enormous towers, a new park, and public beach proposed for Williamsburg waterfront in Brooklyn
Support shown for massive rezoning of Gowanus section of Brooklyn
City disapproves Brooklyn Botanic Garden-adjacent mega development
Snøhetta to reconstruct a modernized version of Knubben Harbor Bath in Norway
A deep dive on New York City’s public pools
A private island in the Hudson Valley with two Frank Lloyd Wright homes (one with a rooftop helipad) is for sale at $10M
A brutalist building by Marcel Breuer is reborn as a net-zero hotel in Connecticut
Georgia’s Soviet-era brutalist architecture
Selected works by architect Louis Kahn, the master of geometry
Triangular configurations and brutalist aesthetics characterize concrete residence in Georgia
Two rotated concrete volumes look for sunrise and sunset in Oaxaca
A tropical home in Mexico is held together using an old Mayan technique
A newly built minimalist home constructed with eco-friendly materials allowing it to blend into its hilly landscape perfectly
An indoor/outdoor Portuguese getaway blends into the arid landscape
A home that retreats into the Brazilian savanna
São Paulo apartment brings together 1940s style and broken-plan living
Architect discusses the joys of lateral living at her carefully renovated Georgian apartment in Bristol
A florist & photographer’s creative converted warehouse
An Australian house that exudes the charm of mid-century homes
A Brisbane home designed to withstand bushfires
A triangle shaped off-grid cabin in Australia made from recycled materials appeals to nature lovers
Triangles are trending in award-winning architecture
Why it’s effective to wrap architecture in zinc
Making architectural education more engaged
A co-housing project in Denver offers a response to the new housing needs of singles and extended families
A trio of lakeside cabins in Canada is the rental home of the future
A 1990s Chevrolet van transformed into a minimalist mobile home
A minimal lounge chair created by Norm Architects for Ishinomaki Laboratory
Inside a Brooklyn–based design studio where two former models are setting the scene
Daniel Arsham breaks the mold with Play-Doh-inspired furniture
A sleek space-saving home workstation
Appreciating the poetic misunderstandings of AI art (seen above)
People who got a second work from home job are discreetly enjoying a two-salary life
How to find work as a freelance architect
Should creatives be more dada?
Teens cash in on the NFT art boom
High-flying millennial art embezzler lands in prison
Gunshots fired at a Dutch museum as two thieves tried stealing a Monet painting but then dropped it on the way out
Artist gives captions to historical paintings
The best new arts and photography books to inspire you creatively
New photo and video kit trading platform lets creatives thrive
That brings this week’s list to a close. Thank you for reading and I hope you found something good. Don’t forget to share this newsletter with a friend. They’ll thank you later.
Thomas