Breuer’s Cape Cod House Gets a Second Wind—and Everything Else You Need to Know About This Week

For a time, the way forward for Marcel Breuer’s experimental Cape Cod retreat—a lean, timber-frame Lengthy Home he constructed for beneath $5,000 in 1949—was unsure. However now it’s been fastidiously restored by the Cape Cod Fashionable Home Belief after years of decay, and has opened to the general public for brief leases and excursions and might be house to an artist residency program within the fall. (Architectural Digest)

A San Francisco firefighter simply launched a petition to rename Cesar Chavez Avenue in Los Angeles after Chuck Norris, the actor and public determine, as sexual abuse allegations towards Chavez immediate broader efforts to rethink the labor activist’s legacy. (San Francisco Chronicle)

A sweeping federal housing invoice aiming to spice up housing provide handed this month however now has a provision geared toward institutional traders. It will power massive landlords to promote newly constructed single-family leases after a interval, in the end impacting what sorts properties get constructed, and who does or doesn’t get to reside in them. (The New York Occasions)

Samsung is testing adverts on its Household Hub good fridges, and many house owners—who say they didn’t consent to their fridges displaying adverts—aren’t blissful about it. The pilot program turns as soon as personal kitchen screens, usually used for recipes or enjoying music, into advertising areas, elevating questions on whether or not promoting ought to comply with us house. (The Wall Avenue Journal)

A coalition of main preservation teams, together with the American Institute of Architects, is suing Donald Trump to halt proposed renovations to the John F. Kennedy Heart, arguing the plans bypass required federal evaluate. Right here’s how nationwide design and preservation our bodies are coming collectively to defend the modernist landmark from change. (Dezeen)

High photograph courtesy Peter McMahon