Concrete Atlantis present: Sumer is icumen in a Roundabout Way — The Horse Hospital Dark-edged spoken word, lively talk about concrete buildings and live music for dancing to architecture. With performance from Mira Aroyo (aka Ladytron ), live discussion with John Grindrod and ...

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Concrete Atlantis present: Sumer is icumen in a Roundabout Way — The Horse Hospital Dark-edged spoken word, lively talk about concrete buildings and live music for dancing to architecture. With performance from Mira Aroyo (aka Ladytron ), live discussion with John Grindrod and ...

www.thehorsehospital.com/events/concr...

I seem to remember a poignant afterword.

And the dog …?

Same place that showed stone slate and other building materials? I remember it c 1976 … hope to visit in coming days, on the way nearby.

My everything gone

BBC Four - Art of Persia Broadcaster and journalist Samira Ahmed reveals the remarkable story of Iran.

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Hail to this volume. Inexplicably under the radar but gold standard team work on the 19th monograph within the heroic Survey of London.

I believe in dog

Tried, so far unsuccessfully …

Hail to this volume. Inexplicably under the radar but gold standard team work on the 19th monograph within the heroic Survey of London.

Wrong green

Villa Palagonia, Palermo - masses of mirror glass and colour adjacent

Thinking hat on. I think the clue lies in France/Italy. Lumiere mysterieuse was Soane’s idee fixe and Sicilian domestic examples inspired him to use mirrors and coloured glass … will keep at it!

Those hands. Caravaggio’s St Jerome in the cathedral in Valletta.

£18 for sparkling water. The Archbishop of Canterbury.

Wes Setter

Think the (excellent) Grasshoppers, congenial hotel looking over the station rooftops, is safe? Please confirm if you can.

My in-house lawyer is with you

Sorry. I am pretty poor at posting on this platform! Or maybe the goat requested privacy or royalties?

Meanwhile a goat in NE Syria munches away alongside the nose of an Iranian missile.An
image which summarises much of the catastrophic situation.

Egad

I sent you a reply via the Soane admin email. But essentially he died in Portland Place: it seems he was merely visiting his daughters in the north.

Fool alert. Within recent days I told someone, oh so authoritatively, that John Carr of York built most of Valletta. Turns out I meant Porto. If it was you, I grovel.

Remember Fleet Street? Spot the heritage building and public space [sic] and weep.

Shout out for bookishness and encouragement for scribblers?!

In Apollo Magazine, November 2018 I wrote about self loathing on the South Bank, the baleful
failure to consider listing the Brutalist complex. Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief.

In Apollo Magazine, November 2018 I wrote about self loathing on the South Bank, the baleful
failure to consider listing the Brutalist complex. Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief.

That took its time…. Huge congratulations to C20 Society for persistence!

These boots aren’t going anywhere. Nice tale of Trumpian non delivery as reported by AFP.