Twenty Five Cents
Well here we are. It looks like we’ve made it through another week and it is HOT is NYC right now. Apparently it’s worse over in Oregon where the heat is literally melting Portland’s infrastructure so I’ll stop complaining. This week I’ll kick things off with another story in the news right now that I found entertaining.
Owner of California’s “Flintstone House” settles lawsuit over dinosaur sculptures
The origins of the Flintstone House as explained by the architect who designed it
Reminds me of these tiny dome homes along the Persian Gulf
A Corsican promenade contrasts a massive fortress and the rocky coastline that anchors it
Danish Parliament approves controversial artificial island to protect Copenhagen from rising seas
A laser circling the planet right now shows how catastrophic rising sea levels will be
Cities that are saving the planet
The case for relocating entire cities
A ten-story apartment building in China is erected in just 28 hours
A modular, prefabricated building system from the 80s that could be built by two people
Why does it cost so much to build things in America?
Here comes a new trend: construction on virtual land
In Japan, a countryside home could be yours for under $500
Japanese playgrounds are works of art
A library is built on a reservoir pond in Osaka
Welcome to the most sustainable floating neighborhood in Europe
A concrete home overlooking the bay in Sydney
A soulful home in Melbourne that preserves the essence of its Victorian-era origins
This lengthy shed-style home in Australia incorporates living, cooking and agricultural facilities
A 19th century barn is revived as a cozy mountain retreat in the Czech Republic
A modern extension is added to a 16th century home
A geometric residence engages in honest conversation with natural surroundings in Mexico
Life inside a brutalist-inspired concrete home in London
Former garage transformed into secluded home pays homage to the rich architectural vernacular of the street
A Toronto home inspired by Italian heritage
Inside NY-based Australian architectural designer and artist's Hamptons family home and creative studio
A creative couple’s sustainable Catskills getaway
Californian desert retreat fifteen minutes from Joshua Tree lists for $899K
This Los Angeles home is all about natural tones and clean lines
Midcentury home in LA hits the market for the first time ever
The ultra-wealthy are buying up historic modernist homes for their collections
Top-floor penthouse of Manhattan supertall tower lists for $169M
Fully restored La Samaritaine department store opens in Paris after an $894M restoration that has kept the building closed for 16 years
Spend the night in a French gallery that occupies a 1950s home
A small flat decorated and once inhabited by Italian Futurist is open to the public for the first time
There’s a new Calder-Picasso exhibit at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta
Authorities have just recovered Picasso and Mondrian paintings that were brazenly stolen from Greece's National Gallery in 2012
Portuguese art collector and museum founder has been arrested over alleged ties to a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme
A former Egyptian MP has been detained over looted antiquities
A painting fell off the wall and went in for conservation and ends up being a long-lost Rembrandt worth up to $240M
A painting bought at a small town dump for $4 turned out to be by David Bowie and just sold for more than $87K
Researchers have discovered a bookmark drawn on by Vincent van Gogh hidden inside an old novel
Infinite architectural metropolises balance order and chaos in artist's intricate drawings
Digital artist creates Utopian Surrealist spaces that may not be too far away (seen below)
The cheapest ride to space is in a balloon-towed capsule for $125K
IKEA prepares for extraterrestrials with assembly manuals for aliens
A single band of tubular steel is made into a chair using the same manufacturing processes of the common bike rack
There’s a Statue of Liberty lying down and relaxing on the green grass of a NYC park right now (current mood)
Kenny Scharf documentary spotlights an ’80s downtown New York cult figure in search of fun
Running around with Andy Warhol
‘Banksy: Genius or Vandal?’ is opening in LA and some Banksy fans are not pleased
Hunter MFA grads mull the fluid nature of time
Industrial design student creates camera that tricks your boss into thinking you’re working
A space-saving folding desk that doubles as a decorative shelf
Japanese initiative empowers local communities through design
What if remote work didn’t mean working from home?
The hybrid workplace probably won’t last
The distraction-free benefits of five-hour work days
How to get back your creative spark after suffering months of 'lockdown brain fog'
Why you should consider giving up social media and cancel Amazon Prime
Is the internet a collective hallucination?
I think I’ll end on that note. As always, I’m grateful you let me creep into your inbox each week. Thanks for reading and I’ll be back in a week or two. Probably two since I’m going to have limited internet access next week. Until then, listen to any radio station in the world online. Or better yet, just get off-line altogether.
Thomas