Cloud Nine
Here we are with this week’s newsletter back at our regular time slot. Many thanks to everyone who sent links over - Christian, Meredith, Heinrich, Rashida, Mia, Toby & Casey. Now let’s get right to it.
The American Institute of Architects New York revealed this year’s winners of their 2021 Design Awards
Tadao Ando has transformed a 250-year-old former commodities exchange in Paris into a new contemporary museum
Also in France, a man must destroy his $69 million illegally constructed château
An op-ed on how New York City developments that impinge on important institutions or iconic views should be rejected
Architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune ends his 28-year run
What Chicago loses when it loses an architecture critic
What makes Mies van der Rohe’s open plans
Publisher launches Kickstarter campaign to reissue 'The Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn’
A Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home in Australia
The vintage furniture sellers of Instagram are burned out
Modernist-inspired home décor by Danish brand
The combination of design influences from Japan and Scandinavia has become known as "Japandi" and this house is a perfect example
In Tokyo, a levitating concrete public restroom
Concrete homes in Portugal, Mexico City, India, Costa Rica and Brazil
Roman & Williams’ new Brutalist-lite Ace Hotel in Brooklyn
Brutalist landmark Paul Rudolph-designed Burroughs Wellcome building in North Carolina gets demolished
Artist creates art using elements from a demolished Ford factory in Belgium
Massive chunk of California's Highway 1 has dropped into the ocean
This California home has glass walls designed to disappear into the hillside
A serene hilltop home in California
This white cube in the Californian dessert is rentable for $900 a night
Tonight at 7pm EST, take a live virtual tour of a dome in Portland, Oregon
A triangular country cottage in Upstate New York
A cozy clapboard bungalow hidden in NYC’s Rockaway Beach
A lakeside cabin in Finland's pine woods
Blackened timber covers this cottage in the Czech Republic woods
An open-air inside-out country villa in Australia
A French country home in harmony with its environment
Two Parisian apartments become one beautiful duplex
The New York Times documents the recent efforts to clean and restore works and spaces in the Louvre
1915 film footage of Monet, Renoir, Rodin and Degas
A new documentary spotlights the detective work behind an infamous art theft
In an unusual crime, someone recently threw a stolen painting into a museum
Inside the $500 million art heist from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum that’s still unsolved 30 years later
Gardner Museum heist podcast, Last Seen
The US Department of Homeland Security seizes 5,000 illegally-acquired artifacts from The Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC and returns them to the Egyptian government
The family of a late art dealer is repatriating his $50 million collection of Khmer antiquities to the nation of Cambodia
The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution
Over 4,000 rare surrealist books and periodicals donated to Rotterdam museum
Surrealist art trove belonging to Man Ray’s assistant heads to auction
Artist accused of trying to sell a partially forged Raymond Pettibon work
Industrial designer creates design plagiarism awards to fight design piracy
Soon-to-open museum dedicated to showing how significant artists lived and worked
Daniel Arsham talks about his latest exhibition in NYC, Time Dilation
The Burke Museum and its collection of 16 million artifacts, ranging from totem poles and gemstones to dinosaur fossils just got a new home
Fascinating Viking finds from a slew of recent discoveries made in melting ice
Ghost towns buried under sand
Exploring Oxford’s rich architectural tapestry through photography
This brightly-colored home in London
Populate your spring calendar with these virtual lecture series and talks
Rhode Island School of Design Continuing Education announces 140-plus online courses this spring
An inspiring video about a group of Thai kids who build a pitch in their floating village so they can to play football (aka soccer)
Lastly, an amusing interview with legendary NYC photographer Ricky Powell who sadly passed away on Monday
That’ll bring this week’s newsletter to an end. Thank you for being here with me. Send an email to capa@bloodandchampagne.com if you’d like to talk to me directly. Until next time, have a great week.
Thomas