Remember me? It’s been a long time since I wrote one of these, so I hope everyone is still around. Thanks to those who sent notes and links during my sabbatical. Please keep them coming. And to all of you who signed up in the last year, welcome. And if you are new here, simply reply to this email and say hi.
Without further ado, the links.
The World Around just announced their speakers for next month’s architecture summit at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC
NYC gallerist/collector Patrick Parrish is currently having an auction full of unique midcentury pieces
What’s also amazing is that his Mondo Blogo is still up and still a great resource
The Nivola Horses have triumphantly returned to the Upper West Side (I mentioned their destruction back in 2021)
A self-filtering floating pool will be installed in NYC this summer
Columbia University unveils NYC’s first purpose-built, all-electric lab building
Bjarke Ingels designs pair of twisting skyscrapers in NYC
The Brooklyn Tower, the borough’s only supertall, faces foreclosure
WeWork seeks to vacate 40 New York properties following bankruptcy filing
Artist Christopher Wool turns vacant Lower Manhattan office space into gallery
The reason the office isn’t fun anymore
Can Instagrammable design lure workers back into the office?
Maybe this sleek modular office furniture can
Or a suspended hammock bath
New York City may be sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers
The floating village of Ganvie
When the skyscraper you hate blocks the skyscraper you love
Wooden skyscrapers are on the rise — but are they a fire hazard?
A new generation of living buildings using hygromorphic materials
William Stout Architectural Books
Advice from artists and designers on living with the things you love
A compact home office that’s also a train
Architects design home in Japan as one big room
Olson Kundig refines the art of the perfect American cabin
Reminds me of Jean Prouvé’s temporary houses for the unhoused
In one Dutch community, residents live in giant concrete spheres that were once experiments for affordable housing
How Finland virtually ended homelessness
Rent this loft in Beacon, NY, for the weekend
A forgotten Philip Johnson home gets a new lease on life
Philip Johnson’s 1949 Brick House is being restored
A 1950s motor lodge is turned into an LA hot spot
Familien Kvistad brings color to 1950s house in Oslo
A low-key, Bauhaus-inspired Tribeca loft
Annie Leibovitz’s NYC apartment is for sale for $8.6M
An atypical Brooklyn townhouse
Why rich people don’t cover their windows
A look inside New York’s mountain houses
A crumbling manor is revived into a minimalist, light-filled residence in upstate New York
Ramdane Touhami filters Swiss vernacular through a graphic designer's kaleidoscopic lens with new hotel
See inside Salvador Dalí’s eccentric Mediterranean home
Midcentury meets contemporary in this spacious beach bungalow
A cement-clad luxury surf shack in Mexico
A house in Mexico designed as transitional space between the city and the forest
Architect designs Mexican aquarium around the premise of flooded ruin
A cabin in the woods designed by creative couple in Spain
An 1800s Melbourne Victorian gets a new addition with a tiara-like facade
Japanese architect to bring his ideas for altering Alvar Aalto’s Stool 60
Who owns Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy?
Richard Neutra’s Marshall House lands on the market for $6.5M
Eero Saarinen designed weapons and devices for the CIA
Dieter Rams pointing at things he doesn't like
Is furniture having a fast fashion moment?
The rigid Le Corbusier colored outside the lines in Greenwich Village
People hate the idea of car-free cities—until they live in one
How Tokyo became an anti-car paradise
Why are traffic lights in Japan blue?
Several people have reported experiencing eye pain, vision problems, and sunburnt skin after attending an NFT event
Mercer Labs opens interactive Museum of Art and Technology in Lower Manhattan
A map of active photobooths around the world
Photographer joyfully chronicles moments of everyday life on the streets of NYC
The young voices telling Mexico’s border stories through photography
There is a $1 vending machine inside the Whitney spitting out NYC prints
Sticker-based, interactive art packs for kids (love these!)
How a thrift store owner let a $191,000 painting slip through his fingers for $4
Surveying the vintage market at Texas’s wildest antique fair
Tyrrell Tapaha’s fresh approach to pictorial Navajo textiles
A sexy and tenous report on frankenchairs
A forgotten vault where Michelangelo hid and sketched for months opens for the first time
Andy Warhol ‘Mao’ print vanishes from California college vault
Acid to destroy Picasso, Rembrandt, and Warhol masterpieces if Julian Assange dies in prison, artist claims
Why Salvador Dalí is the most faked artist in the world
The Van Gogh Museum fires four staff members over Pokémon chaos
Database of 16,000 artists used to train Midjourney AI, including 6-year-old child, garners criticism
Ethical questions arise after AI completes Keith Haring painting
Is AI the death of IP?
Photographer recreates Simpsons characters using AI
Skate mag Monster Children celebrates 20 years by interviewing their cool friends
Photographer stylist opens NYC’s chicest female cannabis store
Patti Astor talks about her new book and her role in the New York art scene of the 1980s (from 2013)
Taggers seen in action at graffiti-covered LA skyscraper
The Japanese philosophy of finding balance in a turbulent life
You deserve a great nap and also this great hat
The new backlash against social media
Can we free ourselves from algorithms?
Why Americans suddenly stopped hanging out
That’ll bring us to the end. These always end up longer than I expected. Thanks for reading this far. See you next time.
Thomas
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