‪a small shout for big shout Harry Wilkin$‬ @hs-wilkins.bsky.social‬

Donate to SAVE GLAMIS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND, organized by Emma Mulhern Glamis Adventure Playground is a lifeline in Shadwell— with some of the highest child de… Emma Mulhern needs your support for SAVE GLAMIS ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND

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Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

'Australians to get three hours of free electricity every day under solar scheme.': www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... - @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

And, of course, this from the other day: bsky.app/profile/lccm...

The covers of six documents produced by the Cement and Concrete Association. They are: - The Medway Bridge on the M.2 motorway - The Preston-Lancaster section of M.6 Motorway - The Story of the M.2 Motorway - THE Hammersmith Flyover - M1 southern extension - Mancunian Way

The Cement & Concrete Association: diligent chroniclers of the UK’s post-WW2 infrastructure projects, always in shades of blue and grey!

'a unified yet varied totality' - 'cells & site' - The Lawns Hall of Residence, Hull University, 1968

Architect's drawing of Clapham Manor nursery garden

Architect's drawing of housing for elderly complex

🚨Today's blog post is on the new exhibition 'Building "Homes for Tomorrow": Lambeth’s Council Housing of 1965 to 1980' at @lambetharchives.bsky.social. The images below (a nursery school and a housing scheme for elderly people) capture the era's ideals.
municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/b...

Swedenborg Square and Swedenborg Square Orchard

Extract from Rocque Plan of London 1746

Swedenborg Square Orchard Planting with Elvis 2013

Growing Communities Video by Trees for Cities

over 10 years ago Project Architects lobbied for retention of open space once Swedenborg Square (est. Princes Square) & later for the planting of an orchard; Trees for Cities funded & organised planting supported by landowner Eastend Homes; @treesforcities.bsky.social‬ video: tinyurl.com/2vnyh7jf

Chittagong University

“humanist modernity” - Architecture in #Bangladesh: The Legacy of Muzharul Islam - www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ntt...

The Skylon at The Festival of Britain 1951

#SKYLON - 'A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, "It had no visible means of support"' - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_... also Skylon - www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1rz...

house by Büro Ziyu Zhuang in north Anhui province of China

re-imagined house by Büro Ziyu Zhuang in north Anhui province of China - freeyork.org/architecture...

the A16 autoroute

'The A16 autoroute – also known as L'Européenne and forming between Abbeville and Dunkirk a part of the larger Autoroute des estuaires – is a motorway in northern France.' - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A16_aut...

Tower Hamlets Town Hall - image by Timothy Soar

Tower Hamlets Town Hall - image by Timothy Soar

'AHMM’s Tower Hamlets Town Hall wins RIBA London Building of the Year' - congratulations to the client @towerhamletsnow.bsky.social - not least for the excellent choice of site, & to the project team www.bdonline.co.uk/news/ahmms-t... Images by Timothy Soar

Shutters are the future’ Maccreanor Lavington’s White City housing

'Shutters are the (UK?) future’ - Maccreanor Lavington’s White City housing in The Architects’ Journal: www.architectsjournal.co.uk/specificatio...

OUT OF THE BLUES - blues have a wavelength of between 450 and 495 nano metres

OUT OF THE #BLUES - blues have a wavelength of between 450 and 495 nano metres

'The A15 is a major road in England. It runs north from Peterborough via Market Deeping, Bourne, Sleaford and Lincoln along a variety of ancient, Roman, and Turnpike alignments_' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A15_roa...

Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams

Dieter Rams

two legendary Dieter Rams designs showing up in the latest episode of Severance

We've just added this "Architects on Holiday" mug to our Humor collection architectural-icons.com/products/arc...

sigh.. #Kirking the windows 11 'upgrade' all week

"You’ve got to think about big things, while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction."

This conversation with best-selling author Richard Watson elevated me.

1987: CONTROVERSIAL Redevelopment of LONDON's DOCKLANDS | Newsnight | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

1987 - London Docklands Development Corporation #LDDC - www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQyT...

happy #solstice! (image © Getty images)

The Bridge That Changed the Map of Europe YouTube video by The B1M

'The Bridge That Changed the Map of Europe' youtu.be/gQA8303vxjE?... 'The Millau Viaduct is a multispan cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the gorge valley of the Tarn near Millau in Southern France. The design team was led by engineer Michel Virlogeux and architect Norman Foster.' - wikip

✨It rarely gets the centre of attention because of the lantern tower but the 12th Romanesque nave at Ely Cathedral is jaw-dropping - so I put my tilt-shift lens to use..📸

Solar Systems on Balconies

Solar Systems on Balconies

'Germany Grants Renters the Right to Install Solar Systems on Balconies' - balkon.solar/news/2024/10... 'The Balkon.Solar e.V. is the leading plug-in PV non profit in Germany. Dedicated to plug in pv system on balconies, roofs, walls or fences.'

And lo! It came to pass as Overground

'man hunts brick'

'man hunts #brick' - youtu.be/jWR9Rv_aFjk?... (warning! - compelling & 28mins long..)

Those links in full:
Zoom: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

In person: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

Coming up, Friday November 29 at 6.30pm, I'll be giving the
@c20society.bsky.social 'Christmas Lecture'. All the styles from Trad to Mod in the postwar expansion of Durham University!
Zoom link: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx....
In person link: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx....

#economical