Jensen Huang, former CEO of NVIDIA, had a nasty week. He resigned after his infidelity got here to mild and now his spouse Lori might depart him, throwing the Jensen and Lori Huang Faculty of Artwork, Structure, and Design at Vanderbilt San Francisco right into a state of uncertainty. Right here’s what else AN editors had been tuned into this week.
Kalshi companions with Artnet for “artwork market prediction”
In case you thought the state of on-line media couldn’t get extra bleak, Artnet introduced it’s “Kalshi’s official artwork accomplice.” The partnership was strategically launched on the heels of New York’s November marquee public sale week. Kalshi rolled out its artwork prediction markets report in Might 2026, enabling customers to commerce on public sale gross sales, gala’s, and so forth. Now, Kalshi can faucet into Artnet’s knowledge units to coach its fashions.
Artnet was based in 1989 by Hans Neuendorf. In 1995 it launched its value database. Artnet AG went public on the Frankfurt Inventory Trade in 1999. In 2025 it went personal after it was acquired by Beowolff Capital and subsequently merged with Artsy.
“The artwork world’s greatest moments have at all times sparked debate. With Kalshi, we’re bringing practically 4 many years of Artnet knowledge and experience to extra folks and giving them a brand new strategy to be a part of the dialog,” Jeffrey Yin, Artnet and Artsy CEO, mentioned in a press release after the partnership was introduced.
In Hyperallergic, Valentina Di Liscia known as the partnership “a brand new low within the artworld” after “we thought we had hit all-time low.” Jasmine Wahi, founding father of Challenge for Empty House, mentioned it’s “a grim growth in our ever-bettable world.” Daniel Cassidy in Artnews speculated: “May prediction markets affect the auctions themselves?”
Kalshi faces a number of lawsuits, together with one by the state of Utah. Legal professional basic Letitia James filed a lawsuit in opposition to Kalshi in July for operating an “unlawful playing operation in New York via its prediction market platform.”
AN editors ought to be aware right here that, truly, we had the thought first, nonetheless we didn’t get previous the seed funding section. AN launched AN Bets, the world’s first on-line structure playing app, on April Idiot’s Day final yr. Perhaps Polymarket will hit us up?
Weitzman Faculty honors Steven Holl, Metropolis of Boston
The College of Pennsylvania Weitzman Faculty of Design staged an award ceremony on the Whitney on November 10. Weitzman dean Frederick Steiner gave opening remarks. Steven Holl was awarded the 2026 Kanter Tritsch Medal in Structure, and the Metropolis of Boston’s 2030 Local weather Motion Plan acquired the 2026 Witte-Sakamoto Household Medal in Metropolis and Regional Planning. The Witte-Sakamoto Household Medal was established in 2019 by William Witte, who was current on the dinner. Planning college students Tony Chen and Weikang Kong had been introduced on stage; each college students have been awarded $50,000 scholarships. Second place prizes went to Peng Qi and Indrajeet Chavan. Qi and Chavan acquired $10,000 scholarships.
The Structure Foyer phases screening at Amalgamated Dwellings
On November 11, The Structure Foyer staged a screening of a brand new documentary, “Structure Employees: Organizing for Change,” at Amalgamated Dwellings, a housing cooperative inbuilt 1930 by the Amalgamated Clothes Employees Union and designed by Springsteen & Goldhammer. The situation was becoming: Amalgamated’s lead architect was Roland Wank, who went on to turn into lead architect for the Tennessee Valley Authority. After the screening there was a dialogue between Yoni Golijov, Eloise Sherrid, Joshua Barnett, Chris Dols, James Heard, Peggy Deamer, Lindsay Harkema, and Valerie Lechene. Sherrid edited the movie and Lechene was the director.
Supreme Court docket Weighs in on Large Bend Wall Case
The Supreme Court docket dominated that wall building within the Large Bend area of West Texas can proceed, after a decrease courtroom’s decide blocked additional building in October. (Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a lone dissenting opinion.) The work, particularly inside Large Bend Nationwide Park, was unpopular regionally, throughout the state, and nationally. AN editor in chief Jack Murphy wrote in opposition to it in a latest editor’s be aware. Extra not too long ago, Texas senator John Cornyn spoke out in an area op-ed. The federal authorities mentioned it has “made significant changes” to the plan after it “re-evaluated the terrain” and “listened to native stakeholders,” but it surely provided no up to date design proposal or technique. No Large Bend Wall, an advocacy group, continues its battle. It notes that the ruling suspends the injunction however the lawsuit isn’t over.
Musk Notes
Many remarked that one of many greatest losers in final week’s midterm elections was Elon Musk, who spent $445 million on Republican candidates. (The determine is equal to paying somebody an annual wage of $100,000 for 4,400 years, PBS calculated.) Musk’s week worsened on Friday, when Tesla introduced that it could cease manufacturing its CyberTruck, made at its gigafactory in Texas, round mid-2027. As a substitute it can shift line manufacturing to the Cybercab, an autonomous car with no steering wheel or pedal.
The Cybertruck—an angular, boxy massive car with a price ticket that begins at $80,000—was a polarizing design object. In a latest dialog on Ezra Klein’s podcast, design critic Debbie Millman mentioned, “There’s actually no want for a automobile to look that imposing and that bloviated.”
Additional, it “infringes on the panorama.” Klein argued for the Cybertruck, regardless of considering it’s ugly: “One purpose I type of just like the Cybertruck is that I don’t discover it stunning. What it makes me really feel will not be good. However it makes me really feel one thing. In comparison with a lot else on the street proper now, it displays any person’s imaginative and prescient. I imagine any person someplace discovered it stunning.”
Brighter skies this week: Information arrived that Musk’s Boring Firm has a brand new contract down in Texas. It’s going to present a mile-long tunnel to Morgan’s Wonderland, a theme park in San Antonio that gives inclusionary points of interest which are accessible for folks with disabilities. The underground route will join the wonderland to Morgan’s Resort, now below building and designed by Luna Structure.
Per the San Antonio Report, the “transit via the tunnel shall be supplied by an autonomous bidirectional electrical shuttle that accommodates folks with a broad vary of bodily, cognitive and sensory disabilities.” The shuttles themselves are being designed now.
The Boring Firm can also be engaged on tunnels in Nashville and Dubai. Already it has accomplished a two-mile tunnel in Las Vegas. Earlier this fall, the Boring Firm introduced it’s learning a hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio. “Defeating site visitors is the last word boss battle,” Musk mentioned when saying the corporate’s Sequence D funding spherical of $3 billion, led by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated funding entities. “Even essentially the most highly effective people on the earth can’t defeat site visitors.” Um, possibly strive taking the prepare?
Zohran heads to MoMA for Architects of Liberation (sans Martino)
New York Metropolis mayor Zohran Mamdani paid MoMA a go to to see Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa organized by Martino Stierli and Ikem Stanley Okoye with Mallory Cohen. On Instagram the mayor honed in on Independence Tchao, a mannequin by Kader Attia on view which requested: “To what extent had been the visions of the independence period achieved?”
Naturally, architects had been thrilled. Within the remark part, Stierli provided the mayor an invite again to MoMA for a guided tour. (It appears he didn’t get an invitation.) New York Metropolis architect Dale Cohen recommended the mayor invite architects to take part extra in his cupboard. Not a nasty concept, Dale! ICYMI: Kashef Chowdhury, of URBANA, received the inaugural Ambasz-MoMA Annual Prize for Nature-Reconciled Structure this week.
Designer Erasure in The New Yorker
This week’s subject of The New Yorker features a reported piece by Eric Klinenberg about efforts throughout the Western U.S. to forestall harm from wildfires. From Colorado to the Bay Space, Klinenberg visits with stakeholders who work on hearth prevention and mitigation within the Wildland-City Interface (WUI), together with a fireplace chief, a fireplace ecologist, an actuary, the CEO of the Insurance coverage Institute for Enterprise & Dwelling Security (IBHS), a tech entrepreneur, and others. There’s even a go to to Dixon Path, a KB Properties–developed subdivision in Escondido, California, the primary neighborhood to be constructed to IBHS’s Wildfire Ready Neighborhood Technical Normal.
One drawback with the story? No enter from architects, panorama architects, and concrete planners. What about SWA’s analysis or Greg Kochanowski’s The Wild or the Case Examine 2.0 program, amongst so many initiatives?
Or what about Dana Cuff? Klinenberg’s story was printed on-line on Monday; that night time, Cuff gave the Jaqueline Tyrwhitt City Design Lecture at Harvard GSD with the title of “Coming Dwelling: Disaster, Fireplace, and Restoration.” (You’ll be able to watch the lecture on-line right here.) Harvard GSD’s hearth considering continues later this month with a lecture by Sylvia Lavin, the new dean at Princeton Faculty of Structure, who expands her undertaking on timber to consider the affect of conflagration on architectural historical past with a chat titled “Structure After Fireplace.”
Stay Like Bjarke
The DUMBO penthouse of Bjarke Ingels is listed on Streeteasy for $7.5 million. Ingles purchased the abode at 205 Water Road in 2015. He added a 3rd ground to the 2-story residence, which he describes as “the smallest molecule of structure,” by buying the rights to an current hearth stair, and constructing it out. Now the addition is shrouded in vines. In Copenhagen, Ingels turned a decommissioned ferry right into a household residence. The place to subsequent, Bjarke?
P.S. Ship us ideas and gossip at [email protected]. Need one thing safer? Sign us at archpaper.95.
