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Happy Thursday, people. I don’t have much to say today, so I’ll get right to the links. But first, a special welcome to the new readers who found me via Ben’s [SIC] Weekly newsletter. I’ve been a reader for a while, and it’s definitely worth subscribing to.
Brooklyn architecture and design bookstore, Head Hi, moves into new space and is hosting a talk this Saturday with designer Stephen Burks
This interactive map lets you explore the sites featured in MoMA’s latest architecture exhibition
Tours of NYC’s old City Hall subway station will return this spring
New York has ambitious housing plans for the future, but what can be done right now?
Architecture firm looks to the past to improve the future of public housing
Are tiny homes a solution to the housing crisis?
American Planning Association publishes policy guide to address inequalities in zoning
Architect designs modernist facade for affordable housing in the Bronx
An ice factory from the 1900s is now a new Bronx school
Brooklyn’s tallest tower’s striking neo-Deco crown is complete
Inside Bjarke Ingels’s pair of twisting condo towers in NYC
20-story Bjarke Ingels complex to be built in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood
A duplex penthouse high above MoMA
You can own the one above it for $63M
A West Village studio fit for two
This architect’s Manhattan triplex includes a sauna
Nine homes under 750 square feet that are packed with personality
A 680-square-foot prewar co-op gets an upgrade in Brooklyn Heights
Japanese interiors inspire this Brooklyn townhouse
A minimal apartment in China
Colors and light form perfect harmony in Rio de Janeiro apartment
An owner-designed, off-grid escape in Tasmania
A historic Sea Ranch home of an architect-artist couple
A 19th-century lighthouse on an island in Maine
An airplane-inspired tiny home for an ambitious 12-year-old client
Shipping container homes you can rent
White Castle wants to find a good home for this lookalike Kansas burger stand
A seamless two-story addition on a Sydney home
A cantilevered concrete house in Italy emerges as a monolith carved into the rock
A concrete home in India
A colorful concrete housing block in Mexico
An angular concrete home on a Korean island
An interior designer’s Australian beach house inspired by Le Corbusier’s seaside cabin
A Parisian hotel designer creates a space of her own
An Art Nouveau Paris apartment
The best Airbnbs and rentals in Paris
These remote cabins in Norway blur the lines between the indoors and outdoors
Sweden’s Treehotel consists of weird cabins in trees
These dramatic A-frame cabins sit on the edge of Quebec’s Mont-Tremblant National Park
A 1940s log cabin turned serene retreat near Melbourne
A vibrant German loft with splashes of color, art, and playful touches
A school building in a small Bulgarian village is transformed into an art center
Researchers invent cladding material that changes color to help with heating and cooling
The most futuristic cities being built around the world
Everything you need to know about the world’s largest and most controversial architecture project
Turkish authorities arrest contractors connected to buildings flattened by earthquake
British council removes part of Banksy domestic violence artwork
After sitting in storage for more than three decades, an art amusement park featuring rides by Basquiat, Haring, Scharf, Hockney, and Dalí is finally going on tour
Beyond The Streets street art and graffiti exhibition opens this weekend in London
Basquiat: King Pleasure exhibition headed to LA
Andy Warhol artwork heads to the Saudi Desert
California-based illustrator makes prints of iconic buildings
This artist creates mini buildings out of everyday objects
A photographer finds color in everyday architecture
Barcelona-based artist’s warped and skewed interpretations of architecture
The hazy, radical photography of Ming Smith is now on view at MoMA
An artist with roots in Nairobi and New York imagines a new destiny
What is Afrofuturism, and why is it so relevant today?
Frieze Los Angeles opens today
Ten gallery shows to see during LA Art Week
New app maps out gallery openings and exhibits by neighborhood and opening date
Gallery owner made up medical emergencies, including a double lung transplant and a coma, as part of a criminal scheme to swindle older collectors
How a hot $100M home design startup collapsed overnight
California bookstore launches vending machines with titles by Black and Indigenous authors
Create your own AI-generated handwriting
The hidden link between workaholism and mental health
How to recover from social jetlag
How to fall back in love with your creative work
That’s all she wrote, folks. So, until next week, take care of yourselves.
Thomas