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Thomas Murphy
Feb 16
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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

Ming Smith, Womb, 1992

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

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