Rob Bevan "Israel's attacks on culture in Gaza also signal genocide" @news.architectsjournal.co.uk www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

857 people arrested in a single day in London for holding signs opposing Israel’s genocide in Palestine These include Holocaust survivors, vicars, retired nurses and teachers. So many of them are elderly. Labour is dead www.instagram.com/p/DOTb3nIjYIS/

New Housing secretary Steve Reed coming out the gate with boring "Build baby build" mantra. Build what exactly? Just new homes or social housing too? And what about retrofit and insulation. Where's the ambition for building what's needed?

Brandon Stanton from Humans Of New York has a series on Palestinian staff of Doctors Without Borders in Gaza. This morning I had read the latest one and believed more people should.

The leaked Gaza Riviera plan is more grotesque than you could ever have imagined.

Really pleased to see Palestinian architects AAU ANASTAS receive an Aga Khan Award for Architecture for their incredible Wonder Cabinet project www.wallpaper.com/architecture...

Why this latest European heatwave is so different – and more worrying – than the rest @rmets.org's Chloe Brimicombe for The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Absolutely terrible climate communications here, no acknowledgement of fossil fuels or pollution by other corporations and big tech. Blaming individuals like this is just asking for a public backlash. Typical of the baffling choices this government makes.

The impacts of climate change won't hit us all equally, with this research showing low income and minority ethnic people are most at risk from dangerously hot homes. More needs to be done to reduce the risks we face as high temperatures become more common. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Was great to attend the opening of Enric Miralles: Creating the Scottish Parliament this morning, such thoughtful and powerful work and intro by Benedetta Tagliabue

My ambient show Earth Tones from this weekend for Radio Alhara is up on mixcloud, have a listen here www.mixcloud.com/bobbyjewell/...

𝙊𝘽𝙅𝙀𝘾𝙏 𝙏𝙊 𝙇𝙄𝙎𝙏𝙀𝘿 𝘽𝙐𝙄𝙇𝘿𝙄𝙉𝙂 𝘿𝙀𝙈𝙊𝙇𝙄𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 A planning application has been made to demolish the Category B-listed façade of the former McCorquodale’s Printing Works on Maxwell Street. They claim the façade is beyond viable repair. I am challenging this.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Increasingly feeling we need start campaigning for punishment as much as preservation. Developers are making millions from shady and transparent practices of fires, demolition, building cheaply and facing no consequences. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/hotspur...

It's been obvious for years but the Centre for Media Monitoring has laid out the sheer scale of BBC's sickeningly biased coverage in detail. Read the report here: cfmm.org.uk/wp-content/u...

There's a great Limmy bit about when you're facing god's judgement just never backing down, indeed doubling down. And these strong statements from developer are really that www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

My review of the Venice Architecture Biennale is up now on climate-focused magazine It's Freezing In LA! itsfreezinginla.com/articles/ven...

Earth Tones for Radio Alhara is up on mixcloud, have a listen www.mixcloud.com/bobbyjewell/...

Will be on Radio Alhara tonight for an hour of ambient music Earth Tones Sunday 8 June - 9pm UK | 11pm Bethlehem www.radioalhara.net

Interviewed Charlotte Maltherre-Barthes about her new book "A Moratorium on New Construction" in @news.architectsjournal.co.uk read here >> www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/cul...

A cowardly statement for sure but wanted to share this passage from The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates that eloquently puts down a “both sides” stance

Enjoyed this by @ginospoc.bsky.social for @news.architectsjournal.co.uk Unless you're a corporate megafestival feels anyone in nightlife, especially LGBTQ+, has been having a tough time. So great to read success stories from across the UK www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/please-...

Glad to be part of @archifringe.bsky.social's Open Programme this year with a sound art exhibtion with Andrey Chugunov. You Are Not Made of Sugar opens Saturday 7 June at Kiosk in Glasgow, read more here >> architecturefringe.com/festivals/20...

Refugees are impacted by the climate crisis and other upheavals. We stand with our local activists in ensuring that refugees and migrants are not scapegoated for the climate and cost of living crises which they didn’t cause but are impacted by. foe.uk/fuwqr

Did a mix of Stone & Sound Art for Radio Alhara this weekend. Brilliant to explore how this material is used for percussion, melody and to comment on issues of colonialism and extraction. Listen back to Quarry of Sound via Mixcloud here www.mixcloud.com/bobbyjewell/...

These are my thoughts on technophile Carlo Ratti's completely depoliticised, problematic, bad central exhibition at Venice Biennale: Robots Everywhere.

Strong FT editorial on much of the world’s shameful silence on Gaza, even as Netanyahu threatens to escalate Israel’s offensive. on.ft.com/433Mp02

Genuinely disturbed by Carlo Ratti's section of the Venice Architecture Biennale. A sinister mix of naive tech optimism, AI, uncanny valley visuals and robotics. Souless.

Floods in Valencia killed hundreds of people last year. "These things could happen in the UK," says CCC sub-group chair. From 40C heat in 2022, to the wettest 18 months on record up to 2024, the UK is massively unprepared for the impacts of climate breakdown. Proper adaptation means govt spending.

The amount of falsehoods and condescending nonsense in this link is ASTOUNDING. AI, Carbon Capture, prioritising politican's feelings over planetry boundaries.

Some of my fields recordings of World Heritage Forth Bridge feature in @citiesandmemory.bsky.social Sonic Heritage - listen live here >> citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/live/sonic-h...

Number of UK homes overheating soars to 80% in a decade, study finds - Deadly heatwaves are rising as the #climatecrisis intensifies, with the use of air conditioning also shooting up Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Who can we trust on Net Zero? Not, says expert, Oil and Gas www.heraldscotland.com/news/2509017... @vickyallan.bsky.social for The Herald >>

Recommend listening into @radiophrenia.bsky.social which is on for the next few weeks. Great mix of music, sound art, radio & narratives pieces radiophrenia.scot/listen/

Thanks to @herrehrig.bsky.social for the book Reconstructing Modernism by Ashley Maher. Fascinating accounts of 20th century evolution of modernism in press, politics and fiction. Felt the parallels between recent push for net-zero and a decarbonised built environment

Starmer's Labour is disappointing in so many ways but the contempt they have for pretty much anyone is astounding. They can't just celebrate the Luton Airport expansion as a positive it has to lauded as hurting or upsetting someone else. In this case planners and climate activists.

Great to see ROTOR Deconstruction talk yesterday, years of great work and projects that really are changing how our built environment is understood and constructed. rotordc.com

Solving the housing crisis requires combining rights-based approaches w/ a missions framework. Housing should be treated as a common good, retrofit, distributed, and built sustainably. Our piece for @sheltercharity.bsky.social on need for social housing ➡️ england.shelter.org.uk/professional...

What we really have a bad economic strategy masquerading as a housing strategy, when what we really need is a properly thought out housing strategy that changes the current status quo peteapps.substack.com/p/are-we-rea...

Great photo essay and interviews by Chris Leslie in the Guardian today on the Wyndfod estate and it's demolition this weekend www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"This is simply neoliberalism at play, carving up our cities for their benefit and expecting us to be grateful for footing the bill." Brilliant read this by Jonathan Liew on the exhausting myth of 'investment'

Real shame to see Glasgow music venue Exit under threat as reported in Resident Advisor ra.co/news/82309 An all too common story in cities that really tells itself here in the comparison between visuals of the existing building and the ludicrous hotel development set to replace it.

"We’re stuck in a carbon accountancy model which is basically about doing everything exactly the same as we currently do, just a little bit less bad,” he said. “That’s not really going to cut it.” Spot on quote this from @justinmcguirk.bsky.social on the business-as-usual stasis we're in

Great points about climate comms from @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social here. Feel like the media coverage on this report compounded with the BP news dropping renewables is very telling about current state of climate action in UK

Fossil fuel giants like BP are climate vandals who will always put profit before the safety of our climate. Their retreat from green investments shows that we cannot rely on market forces to save us from climate breakdown 1/3

Climate Change Committee are usually excellent communicators so this stuff about kebabs is terrible messaging. Huge companies need to change first not individuals. Fear this will be just fodder for right wing headlines.

Extremely slept on