| Hello and welcome to Bloomberg’s weekly design digest. I’m Kriston Capps, staff writer for Bloomberg CityLab and your guide to the world of architecture and the people who build things. This week residents of Brooklyn, New York, were treated to an architectural phenomenon known as Sauronhenge. Sign up to keep up: Subscribe to get the Design Edition newsletter every Sunday. In a press conference this week about his plans to crack down on crime in Washington, DC, President Donald Trump spoke often about beauty. The president talked about his plans to build a golden ballroom at the White House. He talked about the need to protect memorials and restore Confederate monuments. And he talked about cities that scrub their sidewalks every Saturday. This week Trump has also said a great deal about disgust. He has promised to remove homeless camps and arrest people sleeping outdoors. He posted on Truth Social about his desire to “scrape away the filth” in Washington. There’s an historical precedent for the president’s views in the Gilded Age-era movement known as City Beautiful. Trump’s urban politics of disgust point back to the 1890s, when reformers looked to reshape cities and remove what they deemed to be unsightly squalor. To build plazas and gardens in Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and other cities, these reformers razed poor and Black communities. The City Beautiful push also led to the construction of Confederate monuments and memorials across the South. For Bloomberg, I wrote about the darker history of City Beautiful, and how it resonates with Trump’s federal takeover of DC today. For the president, beauty and disgust are two sides of the same coin.  Cadence, a new residential tower in London’s Kings Cross neighborhood, nods to the historic building elements nearby. Credit: Edmund Sumner/Sarah Schumacher for Bloomberg Building in a neighborhood like London’s Kings Cross is tricky. On the one hand, residential developments need to maximize density and amenities. At the same time, towers need to respect the area’s historical character to stand any chance of getting built. Cadence, a new mixed-use development with 163 units, squares the circle by pointing directly to history. For the latest entry in the “Look at That Building” series, Feargus O’Sullivan talked to architect Alison Brooks about how the her design nods to both Victorian rail viaducts and Roman brick construction. Design stories we’re writing |  The Mahone Bay Living Shoreline consisting of rock sills, tidal wetland and a vegetated bank in Mahone Bay in Nova Scotia along Canada’s Atlantic Coast. Photographer: Darren Calabrese/Bloomberg The increasing severity of storm surges represent a threat to the environment, economy, history and culture of Canada’s Atlantic Coast. Preparing for storms here has typically involved armoring the coast with rocks. But in Halifax and other Nova Scotia communities, landscape architects and environmental leaders are building “living shorelines” to diffuse the impact of severe storms. Leilani Marie Labong writes about communities that are choosing to develop salt marshes and green breakwaters over bulkheads and rock barriers to protect the region’s coastal heritage.  Ennead Architects led the restoration for the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. Photographer: Jeff Goldberg/Esto For more than 60 years, communities across the country have enjoyed free performances of Shakespeare plays in parks every summer. That seasonal tradition started in New York City, where theater producer Joseph Papp first launched the series that would become Shakespeare in the Park in 1954. The Delacorte Theater, the Central Park stage that has hosted free summer Shakespeare for decades, just reopened after an $85 million renovation. The design by Ennead Architects gave the Delacorte permanent infrastructure for features that previously had to be rebuilt every season, including lighting towers. Rthvika Suvarna writes about the design behind the stage that brought Shakespeare to parks across the nation. Design stories we’re reading | New York is building its first “deliverista hub” to support delivery drivers. (Streetsblog) Does a building’s past life as a coffee depot warrant historic preservation? (San Francisco Standard) Rachel Siegel reports on the paradoxes of federal housing finance czar Bill Pulte. (Washington Post) Alex Bozikovic introduces Toronto’s $1.5 billion waterfront Port Lands park. (Globe and Mail) Michael Snyder explores the renovation of the Donald Judd Architecture Office in Marfa, Texas, and the artist’s wide-ranging practice. (New York Times) Frank Lloyd Wright is coming to HBO Max. (Architectural Digest) | 
