Album of the day ✢ Earth Burning Red — Bobby Jewell (2025) Label: Lontano Series ✢ Listen + support the artist here lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/earth-... #ambient #ambientmusic

A long overdue change this. Worrying that it's not confirmed as 0% VAT for Retrofit as yet but let's hope so www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/mps-cal...

Having seen San Siro in person recently it is an absolute travesty that it's being demolished. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

More dispiriting news from one of the most contested sites in Glasgow in recent years www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...

Last day is tomorrow but that Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years show in Edinburgh is a beaut

‘Elon Musk won’t stop. It’s time the British government got off X’ ✍️ @willjennings.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3LB746A

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR supportjamaica.gov.jm

So many people I speak to in Scotland lament the closure of The Lighthouse (soon to be another coworking space). And seeing the successs of The Farrell Centre in Newcastle really highlights this lack of public facing centre for architecture and planning. www.bdonline.co.uk/opinion/its-...

I have an ambient album - Earth Burning Red - out today on Italy's ROHS Records. Have a listen here: lontanoseries.bandcamp.com/album/earth-...

“Blair’s well-documented links to petrostates and oil and gas companies ought to alone be enough to disqualify this man as an independent and reliable arbiter of what’s possible or commonsense in the energy transition" - my man @patrickgaley.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

great read this by Jonathan Leiw

Loved visiting Aldo Rossi’s Monte Amiata housing in Gallaratese, Milan last week.

At the Triannale Milano exhibition Inequalities curated by Stefano Boeri. A super dense show with a lot of innovative work next to some duller bits. A bit cluttered when it comes to sound and visuals but pretty good overall

Hot property: London’s housing problem? It’s going to get worse. Housing journalist Peter Apps for The Developer thedeveloper.live/opinion/hot-...

Dr Dom Davies on Grey Labour and Alton Towers - The Decline Rollercoaster for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social tribunemag.co.uk/2025/10/the-...

‘Compassion is stronger than division’: Glasgow’s battle over the saltire - picture essay by the brilliant @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"It is a sign of how little regard they have for the truth when they are incorrectly taking images from museums, and it underlines that we cannot trust a word that they say" theferret.scot/idf-s...

Enjoyed Thirst at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social. Curation there always strikes the right balance between art, science, history and contemporary issues.

V&A East Storehouse every bit as good as everyone says it is

Jenrick’s in full grifting goblin mode so not worth giving him the time of day. but I’ve just spent two hours in Birmingham and if you’re not charmed by its diversity you’re just weird

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.