The Brutalist Coloring Book. Credit: TM™.

New Yorkers who want more marble in their workouts can now exercise at the Met, not with trainers but "athletic docents."

Make no mistake: this is a workout. Your body will perspire, your heart rate will rise and you’ll shed any light layers. (That said, my one request would be to increase the cardio incrementally and start with more stretches that early in the morning.) And because our enjoyment of anything increases when it’s otherwise prohibited, the workout’s massive pleasure derives from its illicitness: “trespassing” the Met before opening hours, writhing to Elton John within the galleries, gently sweating on various marble surfaces. It confers other singular bragging rights as well — like having done jumping jacks before the marble statue of a nude Perseus.

"What would a city look like if it was a wall and nothing else?"

From Geoff Manaugh's BLDGBLOG, a puzzle that's part Trump, part Vandermeer: Andrew Kudless's rule-constrained exploration of how a wall could become a city.

I started to play around with slowly increasing a wall’s length while preventing it from moving outside a site or intersecting itself. At a certain point in the growth process, the wall takes over the entire site.

A new series on Netflix we're excited about, screening at Sundance this weekend and streaming next month, Abstract: The Art of Design. 

Featuring profiles of architect Bjarke Ingels, (our favorite) illustrator Christoph Niemann, theater designer Es Devlin, interior designer Ilse Crawford, graphic designer Paula Scher, photographer Platon, car designer Ralph Gilles, and Nike shoe magician Tinker Hatfield.

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