Fifty-Six, Arkansas
Hello, loyal readers. You’ve found yourself in yet another installment of the newsletter. Good for you.
I’d like to welcome the new readers who showed up after Brendan’s interview (which is also available in Japanese, by the way). And while I’ll still be doing these link dumps, I also have some fun talks coming up, so stay tuned.
Let’s get to it.
The urban heat island effect is making New Yorkers hotter
How sustainable design is remaking modern architecture
Affordable housing is in crisis—can design help solve it?
How two women share a Manhattan apartment for $3,500 a month — but never at the same time
The Chrysler Building, the jewel of the Manhattan skyline, loses its luster
Twin Tower’s designer, Minoru Yamasaki, and the fragility of architecture
How are super-tall buildings aging?
Inside Malaysia's $100B 'ghost city'
Inside a bizarre Vegas doomsday bunker from 1978
Architects are using sunny shades of color to subvert design expectations
Fifteen architecture projects by students at the University of Portsmouth
Architects overlap concrete boxes to form Osaka house
Innovative new downtown Tokyo building integrates a dynamic façade, enhancing functionality and fostering a unique relationship with the city
Japan is considering raising prices to counter over-tourism and weak yen
Why is the salaryman carrying a surfboard? is a Japanese and English bilingual book about the history and context of institutional white supremacy and Westernization in the Japanese design industry
A surfer architect’s Malibu Beach home
A seaside boutique hotel in Mexico
A low-maintenance beach house in South Australia
High design meets flea market finds in this Melbourne home
Surprising curves combine with an abundance of greenery, dramatic colors, and contrasting textures in this Melbourne home
How an old block of flats became a serene multi-generational family home
A Brooklyn brownstone renovation
Bed Stuy's Brownstone Boys share renovation tips in first book
Brooklyn Heights townhouse closes for $22.1M, second priciest single-family home sale in the borough
Inside landscape architect Nathalie Danilovich’s historic Brooklyn Heights home
A designer’s color-saturated Milanese apartment
A 430-square-foot Paris apartment is transformed into a bohemian loft
An artist’s home and studio in Joshua Tree soaks up endless desert views
Visit The Frost House, a lesser-known modernist architecture marvel in Michigan City
An off-grid timber frame cabin in Upstate NY
What would you do with this private island in San Francisco?
Floating swimming pool sails the Seine just in time for 2024 Olympics
Revelations from architect Louis Kahn’s last sketchbook
Concrete Architecture celebrates Brutalism in over 300 structures spanning from 1913 to 2022, showcasing its evolution from urban eyesore to gravity-defying designs
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates 100 years
What do you do with all those books when you move?
Art fair Independent’s new identity takes cues from NYC signage
The new Brooklyn Nets logo is the ‘live, laugh, love’ of NBA logos
The geometry in motion of artist Nancy Holt
The Giacometti public sculpture that never was
The original ‘Day’s End:’ Gordon-Matta Clark’s anarchitecture on Manhattan’s Pier 52
Six art-world cool kids take over abandoned high school in Upstate NY
Pussy Riot founder gets first museum show
An Australian gallery's Picassos prompted a gender war. Now, the curator says she painted them.
In Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Seurat’s pointillism triumphs
Photography show aims to upend xenophobic border narratives
Street photographers Vivian Maier and Bruce Gilden are on view at NYC’s Fotografiska this summer
Writer Carlo McCormick brought NYC’s psychedelic art scene to the world
Art shows to see in NYC right now
Step into Edward Hopper’s paintings in NYC’s Meatpacking District this weekend
What NYC’s indie literary scene is excited about this summer
How the Bauhaus rebuilt everything
Black-owned stores for home decor you should know
Why doctors are prescribing museum visits
And lastly, before smartphones, an army of real people helped you find stuff on Google.
That’ll do it for this time. See you again soon!
Thomas