A morning at Ants Coffee has become one of our favorite ways to start a Sunday in Brooklyn. It’s a tiny spot that, on busier mornings, spills out onto Broadway and feels more like a place the neighborhood goes to wake up together than your typical grab-and-go coffee shop. Come for the Mies-looking tubular chrome chairs and magazine stack, stay for the people watching (and DJs on Sundays).
We’ll be there next SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, FROM 10:30AM-12:30PM, with no particular agenda in mind, other than good coffee and great company. Come say hello, read the latest issue with us, and grab a LINEAR artifact to add to your collection.
RSVP if you’re thinking of coming so we can let Ants know what to prepare for.
In this issue: Formant Studio’s Chicago-inspired tavern in Mexico City, Pieter Peulen’s house, a new bathhouse in Sydney, and a shelter in South Australia.
Formant Studio’s latest project is a Chicago-inspired tavern in Mexico City, which begs the question — what’s a Chicago-inspired tavern doing in Mexico City? It turns out, the founders are siblings Katherine and Diego Morales, who grew up in Chicago and wanted to bring something of their hometown to the city they’d fallen in love with. With Guatemalan family roots, an Italian-American menu, and a home in Mexico, it makes sense that “Nota” stands for “none of the above.”
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We first encountered Pieter Peulen on TikTok, where his Tadao Ando-inspired home and garden provide a quiet backdrop for his ever-changing collection of secondhand finds. Living in the Belgian countryside, he told Cosmos, gives him room to create his own environment and experiment within it.
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New in the bathhouse collection is Sense of Self’s Sydney outpost, designed by Ritz & Ghougassian. Their Collingwood location was one of the first projects we ever featured — this location in Surry Hills feels a bit more grown up, architecturally. The original windows, brickwork, and columns were retained from the former Sydney Antiques Centre, with more than 90,000 hand-laid bricks introduced around them. Our favorite part might be the main mineral pool, where columns rise out of the water and create this feeling that the building’s structure is part of the bathing experience.
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And in South Australia, Architects Ink’s Carrickalinga Shed wraps a family home in corrugated metal, with a central courtyard offering shelter from the elements. Inside, books and heirloom furniture sit against concrete and brick. For all its tough exterior, it feels like a home you could settle into.