Nice, classical approach. Was impressed recently by the atria with cooling water features in the large houses in Pompeii:

Excellent, chilling expose on the design traffickers of war, armaments, surveillance & control. Conglomerate consultant practices, for ever growing & gobbling up other firms - engineers of all stripes, architects, planners, facilities experts, even landscape architects & ecologists. Spotlight this

I can’t imagine what awful things this tree must have done to be locked up like this.

Classic #publicsydney Ineffably beautiful

The Frazer Memorial drinking fountain, 1 of 2 such beautiful structures he erected in central Sydney. This one in Hyde Park, the other behind St Mary’s Cathedral #publicsydney

Ah the super wide angle lens…make believe

Proof it is still there…simply an astonishing plan…and space…

Looking forward to talking tonight on Eastside Radio about Public Housing with @emfarrelly.bsky.social & social housing advocates & residents. Public housing has been neglected for so long - we really need to be dramatically reinvesting & expanding this crucial sector mailchi.mp/eastsidefm.o...

There are a LOT of great global Bluesky urbanists and organizations that are definately worth following — this past STARTER PACK of mine is just a taste. Who is it missing? I hope a lot more are joining and participating here every day. Please help spread the word. #UrbanistShoutOut

The Daily Rothno is a wall in Saffron Walden #WallsOnWednesday

Language matters. #UrbanTruth #StreetsForPeople

They stole the internet’s knowledge and all the work that went into it and they want to sell it back to us for a fee. What a business model.

‘Practising architecture today has two flavours: foregoing principles for work, or foregoing work for principles’ I disagree strongly on abandoning the idea of architecture as art, but agree with a lot of it. De Graaf is very thoughtful as always. www.ribaj.com/intelligence...

Many lessons embedded in drawing on the #architectureofhousing

Apparently the Czechs do not fall or jump like lemmings into incoming traffic when they alight from trams on a platform island, so they don't need railings.

Paul Klee ~ Fish Magic, 1925

Another animated true size type of map. This lovely version is from the great @milan_janosov.

People…in the streets…moving past Parliament…as it should be…long may it continue… #publicsydney

The thing about overnight rain in the older areas of built Sydney like Surry Hills, is that it allows for glistening roads, ominous shadows and sparkling starbursts.

‘Crafted Softness’ indeed! Such self-inflating puff pieces rife in development circles. This is an undercroft shoved under one of the biggest, grossest towers in NYC! Crafted AI BS

The tall decisive forms behind the frilly fronts of #sydneyterracehouses

Here’s the ground & typical upper floor plan - from the Turner studio book #urbanhousing #mixedusebuildings #densitydonewell

All tracks lead to Central. 169 stations have Sydney’s Central Station as their destination. I find the concept quite romantic, the reality during the busy hours might feel different.

Missing Middle housing in Australia gone missing. Sensible low to mid rise, from semis, to row houses & smaller apartment buildings up to say 20+dwellings - all highly desirable as places to live. So many stymying factors; planning rules, land $, finance, hostile NCC & build cost

Huge congratulations to Neil, Camilla & David, leaders of the distinguished architectural practice #durbachblockjaggers, who have just been awarded the 2026 Aust Institute of Architects Gold Medal. So many memorable buildings, hopefully with plenty more to come

Great way to show patronage

Fascinating research on plans to develop Sydney Airport, from its establishment c1940 onwards. Original student work by Rob Turchini, Stephen Garden & Andrew Hosking in our Sydney courses (with #peterjohncantrill). -Multiple options overlaid -Cooks River redirected -Took over a suburb & pony club

Sydney ferries can be a bit pushy, case in point: The Manly Ferry photo bombs my clear cool dawn shot of the Opera House.

We designed the street & subdivision to resolve a long term dispute between Kiama Council & the landowner. Created a definitive green/urban edge to the town, added 50% additional public foreshore reserve, remainder new developable lots, new street & walkway connections to existing cul de sacs.

Australia’s most popular street on social media! The street we designed more than 20 years ago now a TikTok & Instagram frenzy of activity, Tasman Drive in Gerringong tops the pops. Slopes down straight on line of Werri Beach 1/2 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Urbanism a much better term to use than any of the ‘planning’ terminology, such as; - zoning - land use planning Even strategic planning Urbanism should be used for an understanding of the city, it’s better projects & processes. When it comes to act of doing, prefer ‘city making’ & ‘urban project’

The exquisite 1920’s Block Arcade building on Sydney’s George St. A stack of arcade plans as you rise up through the building. Fine steel windows & tiled facades. NYC-style projecting cornice Built to then 150 foot height limit.

A stunning little brick infill apartment building in Tehran, Iran, designed by Hooba Design. Total dedication to brick throughout. A short thread 🧵

I have a favour to ask those of you who AREN’T from the city-building professions, who probably have LOTS of followers who don’t spend much time thinking about better ways for more people to get around cities with less space, fewer crashes & emissions, etc. Please share the article below. Thanks!

# just posted in memory of British architect #jamesstirling,who was born 100 years ago today. This is the suitably irreverent cake made for his 50th birthday.

Who among us etc

Under pressure to move out, in 1840’s NSW Colonial Architect Mortimer Lewis planned a square open to George St, the rest divided off by new streets for development - a plan thwarted by then NSW Govt who reduced the square to today’s Wynyard Park & sold off George St frontage - warning for today! 2/3

Cities need to be understood across space & time. Choices made, both good & bad, echo down the centuries.

“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

On the unfulfilled promise of MMC (the much heralded Modern Methods of Construction). Unlike places like Sth Korea or Scandinavia, in Australia’s dispersed, limited market can it ever deliver on its potential? thefifthestate.com.au/columns/spin...

Rooftop cinema…cities are wonderful…

On the challenges of data centres; @edhusicmp.bsky.social in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au explains the policy & planning issues. Really we need to consider data centres as part of regional infrastructure, rather than one off private profit centres. Make they carry their weight for space, power & water

Many still long for words unsaid: Acknowledgement of the wounded & dead People like you & people like me Whose lives are destroyed & long to be free. Adults & children, babies & aged Treated as animals, tortured & caged Bombed with abandon vicious & cruel But all that we hear is the cost of our fuel

This story quotes Rik Thijs, deputy mayor for public space, greenery and water in Eindhoven. Wish that all cities had a public servant with this title…

Construction… & marketing…in full swing for our design of #Este - a pair of 4 storey #sydneyapartmentbuilding defining an entry courtyard open to the sea, with 94 apartments varying between 50 - 200m2 Looking forward to the scaffolding coming down & the banksia planting in the courtyards!

Ok so fuel tax doesn’t work anymore because of EVs. Tax tyres instead. All vehicles have tyres. #Auspol.

Adaptive reuse of a 1935 parking garage in Paris to create 16 new social housing apartments, with a shared courtyard. Total cost = €6.67m. Design by UR Architecture Urbanism A short thread 🧵

Imagine more such characterful semis! Increasing density & face to the street, shared rear access

Was there last week Excellent to see all the improvements, & the extension of the light rail

Visit to new Sydney Fish Markets on Easter Sunday; certainly heaving with people, & generous scale of stepped terraces on 3 sides very popular. Inside big traditional grid market plan, fused with shopping mall travellators in centre. Great that it’s open to elements-netted perimeter 1/2