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  1. housing
    AOC Is a YIMBY NowAnd she wants to flood local, state, and federal campaigns with pro-housing candidates.
  2. design edit
    Lunar New Year Ceramics, ’80s Hip-Hop Flyers, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus reissued postmodern Bodum glassware from MoMA Design Store
  3. 21 questions
    Zoe Fisher Loves a Goofy Gallery NameThe director of Salon 94 Design answers Curbed’s 21 Questions.
  4. streeteries
    The Era of Experimental Streeteries May Soon Be OverBrace yourself for blandmarks.
  5. books
    What Will It Take to Design (Actually) Healthy Cities?The Topography of Wellness explores a century of how we’ve gotten it wrong and the resilient systems we need to get it right.
  6. design edit
    bell hooks on Design, a Tentacled Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus ‘Filipinx’ graphic design.
  7. 21 questions
    Paula Scher Thinks New York City Needs a Skyline CommissionerThe Pentagram Partner answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
  8. color theory
    Pantone’s Color of the Year for 2022 Is Really More of the SameMeet Very Peri, a “new” shade of blue.
  9. architecture
    What Would It Take to Build This ‘Lost’ Eames House?The Eames Office believes a 1950s prefab would be right at home in the 21st century.
  10. interior design
    It Looks Like the Millennial Aesthetic Is Finally, Officially OverAccording to 1stDibs’s trend survey.
  11. podcasts
    Design, a Love StoryThe finale of Nice Try! Interior explores how objects enchant us.
  12. design edit
    Design’s Unruly, Organic, and Wild YearA dispatch from NYCxDesign’s 2021 edition.
  13. 21 questions
    Emmanuel Olunkwa Wants to Redesign New York City WindowsThe new editor of PIN-UP answers Curbed’s “21 Questions.”
  14. podcasts
    The Bathroom Gadget Americans Are Finally Starting to Get BehindNice Try! meets the bidet.
  15. furniture
    A Modular Furniture Kit That’s the Anti-IkeaLoose Parts riffs on an Erector set to solve furniture’s enormous waste problem.
  16. podcasts
    A Good Mattress Matters a Lot — Just Not for the Reasons You ThinkNice Try! shops for a good night’s sleep.
  17. why this looks like that
    Liam Lee Doesn’t Mind If His Work Unsettles YouThe fiber artist reveals a new furniture line inspired by microbes and enoki mushrooms.
  18. design edit
    A Surreal Woven Chandelier, Archival Posters, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus a blood-red-furniture installation by Dozie Kanu at Performance Space.
  19. podcasts
    Why Everyone Started Lifting Very Heavy ThingsEpisode four of Nice Try! Interior delves into the history of weight lifting.
  20. exhibitions
    Lights, Orbs, and Inflatables Animate the Noguchi Museum’s Sculpture GardenThe collaborative exhibition with design studio Objects of Common Interest runs through February 13.
  21. exhibitions
    A History of Canal Street, in 7 ObjectsShanzhai Lyric is interested in places that elude the public record.
  22. podcasts
    How the Crock-Pot Did (and Didn’t) Change the Way We EatEpisode three of Nice Try! Interior journeys from the slow cooker to the Instant Pot.
  23. 21 questions
    Billie Tsien Wants Someone to Go Eat a PB&J in the Middle of Hudson YardsThe Obama Center architect answers Curbed’s 21 Questions.
  24. design edit
    A Diane Arbus Tribute, Graphic Blankets, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus, a public sculpture made from 400,000 acrylic fingernails.
  25. podcasts
    The Never-ending Work of Housecleaning Isn’t an Innovation ProblemEpisode two of Nice Try! Interior investigates the history of the vacuum.
  26. furniture design
    The City’s Newest Design Gallery Is in a Chinatown MallSuperhouse Vitrine opens with an exhibition of Sean Gerstley’s ceramic furniture.
  27. podcasts
    At the Threshold of a Private UtopiaEpisode one of Nice Try! Interior invites you into the home.
  28. why this looks like that
    Meet the Designer Making Custom Fonts for Spike LeeTré Seals sifts through Black history and culture to leave Helvetica behind.
  29. shopping
    This Online Shop Sells Only Architect-Approved Home GoodsFive things to buy from Civilian Objects
  30. architecture
    The Candy-Colored Tudors and Mini Mediterranean Palaces of Queens‘All the Queens Houses’ shows the most diverse borough’s most diverse residences.
  31. public art watch
    The Nation’s Monuments Are Male, Pale, and StaleA new audit makes the case for a more fluid landscape of public memory.
  32. design edit
    BTS at the United Nations, Doughy Furniture, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus, Richard Neutra’s VDL House reopens in L.A.
  33. streets
    The Street Fight Is BackEverybody wants a piece of your block, and it’s going to take a lot more than planters and metal barricades to resolve who gets what.
  34. streets
    I Wish I Liked the New Brooklyn Bridge Bike Lane MoreA hard-won symbolic victory that’s a baby step.
  35. streets
    We’re Falling Short on Even the Simplest Fix for Storm FloodingPlugged-up drains should be the most straightforward problem to solve, and the city can’t keep up.
  36. design edit
    Charlie Watts’s Drawings, 58 Cities Named Columbus, and Other Design FindsPlus an exhibition of Push Pin’s posters.
  37. exhibitions
    How Cooper Hewitt Revived Willi Smith’s Radical ShowroomsIn the ’80s, the architect James Wines tore off building façades to find materials. This time, he went through more official channels.
  38. upstate
    When the Office Is a Fly-Fishing MotelA creative agency ditched its Manhattan studio and went upstate for good.
  39. design edit
    Blobby NFT Chairs, Reinvented Shaker Design, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus, a book on the Tokyo Olympic Stadium’s architect, Kengo Kuma.
  40. architecture
    Why Was It So Hard to Sell a House That Promised Eternal Life?The strange Bioscleave House took an even stranger path to find a buyer.
  41. streets
    A Napping Corner in Hudson Square (That’s Also a Playscape and Lunch Spot)This is the curbside architecture New York City needs.
  42. design edit
    Tinned Fish Lamps, a New Home-Goods Shop, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus a film that turns the Guggenheim’s rotunda into a sound sculpture.
  43. department of education
    The Green New Deal for Public Schools Goes Way Beyond ClassroomsIncluding fruit trees, solar panels, lead-free pipes, and community-resiliency centers.
  44. anatomy of a streetery
    A Super-Streetery Comes to KoreatownMaiden Korea riffs on Seoul’s street-food stalls.
  45. design edit
    A Thorny Table, Max Lamb’s Newest Chairs, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus a café with seating inspired by brownstone stoops.
  46. benchgate
    Are We Ever Going to Get a Place to Sit Down in Moynihan Station?The corporation behind the Penn Station expansion says more seating is coming.
  47. design edit
    A Mosaic Stool, Fiberglass Mezcal Cup, and Other Things I Liked This WeekPlus, a London Design Biennale exhibit on the “archaeology” of 700 plastic spoons.
  48. good fences
    Spotlighting Flushing’s Ubiquitous Stainless-Steel FencesArtist Anne Wu reflects on an immigrant aesthetic at the Shed.
  49. architecture
    After MoMA, the Black Reconstruction Collective Plots Its Future in ArchitectureIts members talk institutional change, practicing refusal, and what comes next.
  50. design edit
    A Nick Cave Installation, a Squiggly Lamp, and Other Things I Liked This WeekIncluding the city’s best new rooftop.
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