Links We Love – What We’re Reading This Week—September 26, 2014

1. Wired examines NASA photographs of early space flights, which look more like family vacation snapshots than the polished satellite images we see today.

2. Curbed explains how New York’s 57th Street has become a hot spot for tall, skinny skyscrapers.

3. The Verge highlights a short-film collaboration between Cirque du Soleil and ETH Zurich in which an electrician brings to life a set of kaleidoscopic lamps.

4. The Man Repeller considers the floral prints seen at spring 2015 fashion shows and traces their influence to grandmotherly wallpaper.

5. Hudson Yards releases a 90-second time-lapse video of the construction of the complex, from 2012 to the present.

6. Remodelista visits Maison Empereur, a family-owned business established in 1827 in Marseilles that claims to be France’s oldest hardware store.

7. PopSugar Home shows how to incorporate animal imagery into your home decor in ways that are stylish and never cheesy.

8. NPR looks back at the work of artist Anna Coleman Ladd, who created lifelike masks for disfigured WWI veterans.

What have you been reading this week? Tweet your links to @archdigest.