36 Chambers
Hello everyone. Welcome to the latest installment of the B&C newsletter. Special thanks to Megan, Annabel, Zena and Malcolm for sending in links. Keep’em coming.
I had to skip last week which means there are lots of goodies this time around. The links this week start out in architecture and then go into interiors before getting into art (art crimes yay!) and photography. I couldn’t find a good place to fit the first two links but I wanted to include them, so they get to go first. Enjoy.
In historic deal, indigenous traditional owners win back world’s oldest rainforest
Free internet could soon be coming to every New York City home
New supertalls test the limits, as NYC consults an aging playbook
Should architects continue pursuing the tallest and thinnest buildings, even as the myriad technical issues in existing supertalls continue to mount?
NYC’s Rockefeller Centre wants you to simulate historic photo, Lunch atop a Skyscraper
New laws are being passed to mandate bird-friendly buildings
New York approves use of cross-laminated timber for six story buildings
Over 60 top international architectural firms send open letter calling for climate leadership ahead of COP26
LA’s new reflective streets bounce heat back into space
In the Netherlands, the first vertical forest applied to social housing
Professional surfer and clothing line founder combine forces to bankroll $130M 93-apartment wellness tower in Australia
Design team redefines Singapore’s increasingly high-rise residential lifestyle by embracing a ‘living close to the ground’ approach with super-low energy bungalows
Is ancient technology better than modern air conditioning?
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a form of concrete that is made from the pollution caused by concrete (🤯)
An epic yet modest concrete home in Perth
Concrete imitates geological layers in Argentine residence
A fortress-like residential building with irregular green terraces stands out in Tokyo
Modern Japanese houses that inspire minimalism and avant-garde living
Architect’s residence in Tokyo is an homage to the bright, 1960s vision of the future
How architects can craft the perfect Airbnb getaway
This prefab floating sauna draws inspiration from both Finnish and Japanese design
Seattle architect crafts a hardworking shed for just over $2K
Bosnian man builds a rotating house to give his wife better views
An island of off-the-grid homes that’s 50 miles from Times Square
Richard Neutra’s architectural vanishing act
After nearly 70 years, a forgotten, unbuilt design by Mies van der Rohe comes to life on Indiana University’s Bloomington campus
Architect reframes the narrative of a 1940s apartment for a writer couple in São Paulo
A modernist gem in Paris is meticulously restored
17th-century Paris mansion reimagined for the future
Tunnel-like vaults house cafes and workshops along revitalized Prague waterfront
Architects revive building's original brutalist identity in Greece
Dormant postwar architectural icon is resuscitated for 10-day art exhibition in Berlin
In the center of Berlin, a partnership between artists, planners, architects, cultural workers, and the municipal government is upending familiar tropes around “urban decay”
The subversive urbanism of Pixar movies
America’s first waterpark is 250 acres of abandoned decay and is selling for $11M
An industrial-style home rises next to a derelict apple-processing warehouse
Architect integrates skate ramp into sustainable home
A slim home amid the maples in Montreal
A NYC loft with soft wabi-sabi neutral vibes
A restored 19th-century row house in Manhattan seeks $1.8M
A cozy Swedish apartment with character and personality in a hundred-year-old building
Ten interiors with window seats for peaceful contemplation
An artist’s Brooklyn home that feels like it’s in the country
A young designer's unconventional home renovation
Wes Anderson designs train carriage in the English countryside
The architectural photographs of Hélène Binet are now on view at London's Royal Academy of Arts
How architecture depends on photography
Architect photographs the candy-colored Tudors and mini mediterranean palaces of Queens, NY
Tokyo-based artist and photographer strips down Tokyo's bustling life to create melancholic images of the cityscape
San Francisco-based painter depicts a vision of the city that is both lived-through and longed-for
Instagrammable Chinese village is a beautiful tourist spot - only thing is, it’s fake
Yale's Vinland Map, once believed to be the earliest cartographic depiction of the New World, has been proven to be a modern forgery
Manhattan gallery owner admits mass-producing fakes he sold for years
NYC antiquities dealer pleads guilty for her role in sale of looted items
Art dealer used offshore accounts to trade looted antiquities which are on currently housed at the Met and the British Museum
A deep dive into the art crimes of Hobby Lobby founder
How collectors can support Indigenous and Native American artists
A new generation of ceramic artists is pushing the medium into strange dimensions
The subversive world of Daniel Arsham
A conversation with Daniel Arsham
Google reconstructs lost Gustav Klimt paintings with machine learning
A never-before-seen Keith Haring mural is unveiled in NYC
New collection of neon signs features notable designs by Keith Haring
Never-before-seen Basquiat drawings inscribed in bartending book
Andy Warhol’s illustrated cookbook from 1959
Recent ruling finds Warhol’s use of Prince photograph a violation of copyright law
Andy Warhol’s portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat is heading to auction with a $20M estimate
A $40M Basquiat painting is headed to auction
New York-based photographer lenses familial histories and narratives of his local community
Photographer spends decades using photography to understand the American way of life
10 things to know about Robert Frank
How Magnum photo agency got back in the picture
Rarely seen black and white photos by Dash Snow now on view in LA (seen above)
7 street photographers you’re going to fall in love with
A guide to this weekend’s Gowanus Open Studios in Brooklyn
Social media is over (if you want it)
That’s it for this week. I truly appreciate you being here and hope you found something interesting. And if you did, why not forward this newsletter to a friend? Got something to say? Hit me up at murphy@therealmurphy.com.
Thomas