Double Deuce
Here we are again with another installment of the newsletter. Thanks for opening your email and having a look. Glad you’re here with me. And a big thanks to those of you who’ve sent me links this past week. Let’s dig in.
The Royal Tenenbaums mansion is for rent in Harlem for $20K a month
New York City just approved a floating pool in the East River
Find and rent a local private pool by the hour (thanks Liv)
The beautiful renovation of a five-story 1830’s townhouse in Greenwich Village
Architect designs gracious minimal residence in Brisbane for a family member
This home in Spain is made from three interconnected concrete volumes
Concrete slabs and black steel boxes create home in Ecuador
A dreamy, nostalgic family home in Melbourne
This wooden guesthouse is hidden in a back garden in Los Angeles
Prefab modular grid system takes inspiration from honeycomb structures
A gentle brutalist masterpiece in Brisbane
Step inside a brutalist-inspired home on the French Riviera
A designer’s fun mid-century makeover of her ‘90s townhouse
Architect designs a barn for his artist father and another designs a home for himself and his family
A minimal apartment in Tokyo and another in Copenhagen
This Shaker kitchen in a turn-of-the-century Swedish apartment
Curved forms and soft tones define apartment in Kiev
This Warsaw apartment drips in luxurious tactility
Scoop up this compact, sun-kissed London flat for $450K
Rear home extension contains cloister-like rooms built around a central courtyard
Pigmented concrete is casted to create structural walls and decorative details throughout a home in London
Ten bright and bold interiors that make use of color theory
Montreal design studio introduce outdoor furniture collection infused with a boost of color
Aerial photographs of 1960s communal dining areas
Michael Heizer’s City in the Nevada desert is nearing completion after fifty years
James Turrell to unveil another Skyspace this year in the Colorado mountains
The evolution of land art from Walter De Maria to Doug Aitken
When cell phone towers cosplay as trees
French photographer captures nature overtaking abandoned architecture (thanks Lucy)
A ‘ghost forest’ has sprung up in Manhattan
Keith Haring’s graffiti-covered refrigerator door recently sold at auction for $25K
A Basquiat painting sells for over $50M in Sotheby’s auction and another sells for over $90M at Christie’s
Sotheby's opens brick-and-mortar shop in NYC
How collectors can avoid buying forged works by Basquiat, Haring and Warhol
St Louis exhibition includes never-before-seen private collection of Haring's works (thanks Nicolai)
Isreali architect creates beautiful architectural illustrations that capture the unexpected mystery in everyday surroundings (thanks Erin)
Italian architect creates 23-piece puzzle for endless architectural creations
Monacelli Press sells great architecture books
Little Salmon sells essential products made from ethical and renewable sources
Do your part to improve world health by putting your website to sleep
The NFT gold rush is destroying digital history
NFTs may be the future of art — but are they threatening the future of the planet?
NASA backs RISD space design club projects
Can artists make contact with aliens?
Should we treat other planets like natural resources or national parks?
And lastly, why wood has gotten so dang expensive
That’ll bring this week’s list to an end. I hope you found something you enjoyed and maybe even learned something. I’ll be back next week with more. In the meantime, tell a friend to sign up. And go outside.
Thomas