🚨 My new post on Substack tells the story of the London County Council's ‘Patronage of the Arts’ Scheme that installed over 70 works of art in schools and housing estates across the capital. municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-lcc-an...

Have a listen to this new episode of Open City’s De-constructed podcast! I talked with @matthewlloydr.bsky.social about England’s first ever council housing cooperative - a bold experiment in tenant control in 1970s Wapping 🧱🛠️✊ open.spotify.com/episode/3hiS...

It is exactly two years since C20 Society established the Elain Harwood Fund to secure her legacy, and hosted an incredibly moving event in her honour at the Southbank Centre. We’re pleased to announce the Fund has now reached £81,000 in donations – over half way to our initial target of £150,000. 🧵

Now live! I was interviewed by @matthewlloydr.bsky.social for @opencity-uk.bsky.social Deconstructed podcast discussing the Keeper's Lodge at Plumstead Common, built by the LCC in 1894.

There is still time to get a ticket for our tour of Poundbury with the Ross Sharpe and Hilary Satchwell for @opencity-uk.bsky.social next Saturday 7th June, with options to join us on the train from London! The weather forecast is looking promising! open-city.org.uk/events/pound...

📢In the latest Deconstructed podcast, host @matthewlloydr.bsky.social R discuses the past, present and future of London's troubled Euston station with architectural historian Ewan Harrison🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

📢 Our latest Deconstructed podcast sees @matthewlloydr.bsky.social joined by George Saumarez Smith to discuss St Anne's Limehouse designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. You can listen in all the usual places and also today at 2pm on Resonance 104.4 FM 🎙️🎧🏙️ www.resonancefm.com

🎧 New episode of Deconstructed just dropped! 🎧 @matthewlloydr.bsky.social is joined by George Saumarez Smith for a chat all about St. Anne's Limehouse, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Listen on Acast: shows.acast.com/opencity

Got the amazing opportunity last week to visit the restoration work at St Stephen Walbrook courtesy of Luka Pajovic — a brilliant effort to secure the future of the finest Wren parish church in London, and credit to Daedalus Conservation for impeccable work

So excited to be involved with this new podcast project over at @opencity-uk.bsky.social

What were the vibes of 2024? We did our best to talk about some of them on our latest episode, from unionisation to Tehran to AI to The Sphere! out now wherever you get your podcasts or on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/OJ1VlSKegGA?...

2024 HIGHLIGHT Neural networks & the architectural imagination by @matthewlloydr.bsky.social recessed.space/00186-AI-neu...

🎧 The new De-constructed podcast from Open City sounds terrific, with Finsbury Health Centre a cracker of a building to kick-off. Bring on January! Big congrats to host @matthewlloydr.bsky.social, listen to a trailer here: shows.acast.com/opencity/episo…

Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked

Hello 👋🏼 I’m India, an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Cambridge. My research examines the architecture of the Inns of Court in the 17th century. I’m the Editor of the London Topographical Society Newsletter and I’m currently undertaking a curatorial research placement with Historic Royal Palaces.

Heritage crime: Three Grade II listed 'Richardson Candle' street lamps - designed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957 - have been stolen from Trumpington St in Cambridge. Stolen-to-order or student prank? Police are urging anyone with any information to come forward. www.thetimes.com/article/fb80...

Hello Blue Sky! Check out our latest episode, on the Beaux-Arts school in 1920s America, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts: youtu.be/Jj1anRYMmLI?...

Fucking love Nicholas Hawksmoor

Today the GLA published its annual ‘Housing in London’ report data.london.gov.uk/housing/hous.... It has 70 pages of analysis and data visualisations and I think you should read the whole thing, but here is a thread with some of the key findings.

They do not sign leases, as we that are left sign leases: Their landlords do not come into their flat with less than 24 hours notice, nor their boilers break down. At the paying of the deposit, and in its retention We will remember them

Had an incredible, chilly and almost hallucinogenic trip far east down the estuarine Thames on the Open City boat tour yesterday, led with inimitable vim by Benedict O'Looney, from Tudor naval yards to Ballymore's flatland — strongly recommend you book tickets for the next one

remarkable to see the lonely island of the Express Building by Ellis & Clarke ft. Owen Williams floating on its own as part of large scale demolition of the surrounding office blocks (themselves barely 20 years old) to make room for BIG's wraparound pastiche deco stepback mess

Is it true that there are people who have accounts on Bluesky who are also fans of architecture?

Want to cross the road safely? Disabled? Pushing a pram? Tough luck. What an utter, selfish disgrace. Seeing this every day now in London.

Thrilled to share the start of a new miniseries of the SAHGB podcast in which Jess Kelly and I think about the subject of 'Architecture and Media'! We are thinking about the way that buildings a shaped by their representation in different media: open.spotify.com/episode/3NQY...

I went on the Open City podcast this week! We discussed building houses on golf courses, YIMBY memes, Fratelli d'Italia at the Venice Biennale, Liverpool Street Station and the Tory lie that pro-Palestinian ceasefire protests are "hate marches" open.spotify.com/episode/7aYy...

Does anybody know (in English or French) any commentary/history on the process of the embankment of the Seine?

This surgical and merciless deconstruction of the 'trad architecture' claque by @matthewlloydr.bsky.social is simply a must-read by a must-follow. failedarchitecture.com/trads-forget...

How am I only just learning that much of the steel of Berlin's Palast der Republik after the demolition was shipped out to Dubai to be used in the Burj Khalifa?

I already hated the huge new chunky plasticky Land Rovers more than almost any other car, and now I discover that they project a hologram of themselves onto the pavement when one embarks

The remarkable Hilversum Town Hall by W.H. Dudok, completed in 1931. The horizontality of Frank Lloyd Wright combined with what John Summerson called “an exquisite sense of form” which has “enabled him to avoid many of the trite mannerisms current in modern Dutch architecture”

An inspiring lesson in communal housing designed in 1919 by Michel de Klerk, Het Schip (“The Ship”) incorporated 102 housing cooperative homes, a socialist meeting hall, a post office and a school, in the flamboyant, curvaceous, playful language of the ‘Amsterdam School’

Some very well-mannered new buildings for Pembroke College Cambridge by Haworth Tompkins - lots of oak, the by now ubiquitous allusive gable end, lovely light, nice rounded corner on the brick of the street facade - solid-feeling but maybe trying to hard to fit in?

mock tudor tending towards Cartesian space on the Isle of Wight

Astonishing photograph of the light in old Euston station taken in 1929 by Harry Moult, an electrical engineer from New Zealand who took up photography in the 20s as part of the 'Wellington Camera Circle'