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42nd Street

Thomas Murphy
Jan 6, 2022
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42nd Street

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Welcome to the first newsletter of the new year. This one is short as we ease back into things, but it's still worth a read. Thanks to everyone who’s been a reader this past year, and a special thanks to those who've sent in links.

This week we start with some NYC-related developments before getting into the usual interior design and art-related links. There are also a few wildcards thrown in for good measure. Out with the old and in with the new.

Here are 192 ways the world got better in 2021

Alan Watts on why we resist change

39 buildings on a massive Chinese artificial island have been ordered to be demolished

How New York City’s skyline will change in 2022

Snøhetta completes two buildings on New York’s Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island

A call for affordable visions for new 5 World Trade Center building

SoHo’s Elizabeth Street Garden is being replaced with housing

NYC says goodbye to East River Park

The East Side Coastal Resiliency Project breaks ground, but opponents aren’t backing down

See NYC’s sweeping master plan promising climate resilience for Lower Manhattan

A massive manmade beach and waterfront park is coming to Williamsburg, Brooklyn

NYC’s first net-zero community moves forward in Far Rockaway, Queens

NYC gallerist is planning to turn a group of cottages on Lake Montauk into an artist’s retreat

Recently unveiled Hôtel des Académies et des Arts is an ode to the artistry and craftsmanship

Paris’s Hôtel Madame Rêve opens after a nearly decade-long renovation

An old farm in the Dolomites is transformed into a modern wellness hotel

A new London hotel is inspired by the California desert

Sausalito’s quirky and colorful floating homes

An outdoor wooden classroom in Spain

A free-form, cave-like house built into the Earth

A net-zero home built from hemp

A contemporary terracotta house in the Texas desert

A minimal apartment in Portugal

A family home in Stockholm

Estate-condition Brooklyn brownstone asks $1.45M

A designer’s brownstone apartment in Brooklyn

A serene SoHo loft owned by a former Navy SEAL

Inside the apartments of New York City literary legends

Relaxing is a skill

Salvador Dali's creative secret is backed by science

Why you should stop reading the news

It’s time you rediscovered the lost art of the phone call

Demand for vintage items like typewriters, records, and film is surging

NASA's most famous vintage images are up for auction

Bruce Davidson, Untitled, Subway, New York 1980

The most expensive artworks sold in 2021

Thieves steal gallery owner’s multimillion-dollar NFT collection

Art dealer’s despondent viral tweet about the theft of his NFTs… is now an NFT

What exactly are "Bored Ape"?

Sick of NFTs? Insiders insist they're just getting started.

NFT marketplace OpenSea is now valued at $13.3B

A handbook on creating, selling, and buying NFTs

Notes from an NFT sceptic

Steve ESPO Powers gets into the NFT game

Bruce Davidson’s NYC subway photos from the 80s (seen above)

Stock photos of AI-generated humans are available for licensing for the first time

Famous masterpieces remastered using countless emojis

Explore Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ in an interactive 717-gigapixel photo

British man sentenced for attempting to break into building to paint over Banksy artwork

An unauthorized Banksy-themed nightclub pops up in Mexico

A new Jean-Michel Basquiat biopic is on the way

I know I was a little all over the place this week. That's all. Thanks for reading. I appreciate each and every one of you.

Thomas

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