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Thomas Murphy
Apr 11, 2023
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Welcome to another exciting episode of the newsletter. This one comes to you live and direct from Tokyo. Life got a little hectic before arriving here, so I apologize for the lack of posts. But as those of you who’ve been here from the beginning know, I always come back. So thanks for sticking around. Lots of good stuff this week, so I’ll get right to it.


Tickets are now on sale for this year’s The World Around Summit at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC

Conspiracy theorists target architect over urban planning concept

The 15-minute city deconstructed

The racist truth about urban highways

Unpacking Michael Sorkin’s library

Why biophilic design matters

Architect seeks to deliver mobile two-level residential structures to heavily flood-prone areas

The slum-inspired apartment complex designed by its residents

Why does American multifamily architecture look so banal?

Domed brick facade of new Little Italy building evokes historic New York

NYC mayor hints at lifting restrictions against windowless bedrooms

A two-story apartment within one of London’s best brutalist buildings just hit the market

The guy who bid $190M for the Flatiron Building didn’t show up with the money

A $140,000-a-month apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

See inside a converted New York schoolhouse on sale for under $300K

Hudson Valley towns have a New York City problem

The dilemmas of urban life

Floating solar panels are being installed in reservoirs

When did New York start building slowly?

The first residential tower in Germany designed using the “cradle-to-cradle” principle is currently going up in Hamburg

An architect’s guide to designing your first passive house

Could ChatGPT become an architect?

Engineers build new kind of concrete that’s twice as strong as the real thing

A minimal Mexican residence built on rigid concrete frames

A fortress-like holiday home with lofty interiors in Mexico

A minimal home in Barcelona

A white home in a Swedish attic

An art-filled apartment in Stockholm

A photographer’s palette-perfect inner city home in Melbourne

An artist’s 1880s Mediterranean-inspired Australian family home

Inside a 100-year-old apartment building in Australia

A Frankfurt home with Japanese vibes asks for $2.6M

San Francisco home with Bauhaus influences asks $3.7M

Richard Neutra mid-century house in LA gets a new lease of life

A 1970s California ranch home is reimagined for modern times

A tropical house in Tulum, Mexico

A Hamptons beach house that was designed upside down

The archetypal cabin is transformed into an eco-lodge in Italy

Mud and waste used in two-bedroom home half-embedded into rock face in India

A 12-foot-wide multilevel home in India

A rundown two-story brick-concrete building on the outskirts of Beijing turns into a boutique hotel

Dilapidated barn in the Scottish Isles gets transformed into a dining hall

This spectacular cliffside home in Australia is both wild and cozy

Two penthouse apartments are merged to create Australian dream home

From old brick to modern sanctuary: a Melbourne home’s evolution

This Manhattan penthouse blends Italian, Japanese, and American design sensibilities

A young food stylist’s 800-sq-ft Brooklyn home filled with family treasures

A historic Brooklyn brownstone receives a modern update

A 118-year-old power station along Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal becomes a contemporary arts and fabrication space

A 100-year-old bridge in Wyoming is for sale to the highest bidder

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, Untitled, 1984

The first documentary on Korean artist Nam June Paik is currently screening at NYC’s Film Forum

NYC’s Metrograph debuts interdisciplinary programming expansion with plant-themed takeover of the theatre’s lobby

Museums that are free for New Yorkers

New interactive installation coming to Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works

Brooklyn Museum brings together twelve artists to consider the complex impact of the Great Migration

Hundreds of artworks by NYC teenagers go on view at New York’s Met Museum

Hundreds of artifacts in the Met linked to indicted or convicted traffickers

$25M statue seized from the Met as restitution efforts continue to target the museum

MoMA apologizes for kicking out Black artist from installation

Miami art dealer who smuggled ivory sculptures sentenced to 51 months in prison

Native American activists prevent auction of 600-year-old Indigenous skull in North Carolina

Mexico alleges New York gallery auctioned hundreds of illegally-obtained pre-Columbian artifacts

Hi-res art scans from famous Taiwan museum leak online and turn up for sale on Chinese online shopping platform

Feng shui experts say JR's giant installation on the Hong Kong harbor is a bad omen

Indigenous artists tell the story of Hawaiian surfing

How designers are creating new ways to look at art and interact with it

Ai Weiwei recreates Claude Monet’s Water Lilies using 650,000 LEGO bricks

Spanish art collective highlights the threat of plastic waste by filling building with 8,000 plastic bags in Mumbai

Designer’s new rug collection is an ode to Japan’s influence on French modernism

An old public bus in Japan has been converted into a mobile sauna

Take a virtual tour of Richard Neutra’s iconic VDL House

Charlotte Perriand’s apprenticeship with Le Corbusier didn’t go quite as he expected

Wangechi Mutu’s fantastical creatures take over the New Museum

The New Museum’s curator on Wangechi Mutu’s arresting art

Putting Black design in a spotlight

In the 1960s, Kwame Brathwaite’s fashion photographs sent a riveting message about Black culture and freedom

In the 1980s, an unknown photographer from New York traveled through the US, capturing life in black communities

Photographer’s photos of NYC from the late 1970s to the early ‘90s are an unfiltered look at a bygone era

Have we reached peak Keith Haring?

Basquiat and Warhol are reunited in new Paris exhibition

Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”

Pleasing pastels in AI-generated retro-futurism

A Twitter thread of messy offices to make you feel better

When you’re feeling stuck, make a to-don’t list

Critical thinking is great, but in a world full of information, we need to learn 'critical ignoring'

How to foster your purpose wherever you are in life

That does it for this week. See you next time.

Thomas

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