Here are some photos from my last visit to Hill House back in 2019 when all the old roughcast was still in place:

Hill House (Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Mackintosh) being restored under cover as it dries out following years of water ingress. From a fascinating visit with iconichouses.org and @n-t-s.bsky.social

Jag är så trött på att arkitekter bara föreslår fyrkantiga lådor nuförtiden, låt oss bygga i klassisk stil istället!

I've come to the conclusion I post way too few corners on Bluesky so here's a good one from Karl Ehn's Karl-Marx-Hof (1927–31) in Vienna:

Men, men ska inte poliser frias per automatik? Antar att det blir resultatet när frågan väl kommer till domstol.

Jag läser att KD inte vill att Chipperfields Nobelcenter "glas, betong och kvadratiska byggnader utan tillstymmelse av vare sig själ eller karaktär" ska byggas framför Jan Lundings glashus vid Slussen.

DECK ACCESS. THE PRINCIPAL SYMBOL OF URBAN DECAY, SQUALOR AND DYSTOPIA.

God jul!

I've gone north [Jönköping] for Christmas. Turns out the north [Jönköping] is foggy:

Malmö, yesterday lunch:

‘Like lipstick on a fabulous gorilla’: the Barbican’s many gaudy glow-ups and the one to top them all

You hear people remark that the Mercator projection exaggerates the size of Greenland but going by Google Maps Ireland seems an even more apt example:

Venezia I 2025

James Gowan’s Schreiber House is on the market: sothebysrealty.co.uk/properties/b...

After almost 15 years of living in Malmö I finally visited the open-air museum Kulturen in Lund. In one building I stumbled on this slender banister reminiscent of Lewerentz at Malmö Eastern Cemetery:

Venezia I 2025

As you can see from this photo I went to a lecture where Adam/John/David Caruso talked about Makmö konsthall and the 70's art scene in New York:

Once again I wonder what's behind the man's accordion hang-up?

‘An idealized version of LA’: fabled mid-century Stahl house on sale for first time

Malmö's currently pretending it's a more northerly city:

Min svenska värdering är att "resa" är ett verb för att fysiskt förflytta sig en längre sträcka alternativt att positionera något tidigare vågrätt i en lodrät position:

Att det har tagit mig ända tills idag att inse att Sommar är de högskoleutbildade barnens "Mello".

Venezia I 2025

Realising that the building I live in is listed in the survey I bought this beautiful book this weekend:

WALLS: GREATER CAPACITY FOR STORY TELLING WHEN MADE FROM LUMPS AND NOT LAYERS OF THINGS.

I'm once again back at Klas Anshelm's Malmö konsthall (1971–75):

Walking home there was a very slight rain– more like a mist, really – which in combination with the late autumn sun gave the city a hazy golden shine:

Reposting last night's thread:

So this is the kind of art you create if you've spent part of your childhood in Villa Jeanneret? auctionet.com/en/4525438-k...

Last weekend I walked past a 2nd hand bookshop when I happened to see my old college in the shop window:

There was a great sky when I was walking home from work today, here seen behind some Johan Celsing housing (and some Spanish-Swiss nonsense):

OK, this really has to be said: enough with the fake Ikea names already. Not to mention the liberally sprinkled å, ä and ö/ø's that you somehow just pronounce a's as and o's: it's been at least twenty years now.

Sent omsider inser jag att riksdagshuset, av alla byggnader, har letat sig in i den så omtalade kanon: får man lite stilla undra på vilket slags grund?

I'd entirely missed that Grafton's Anthony Timberlands Center is finished: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Malmö has its moments:

Personligen är jag helt för att Svenonius tar första steget mot en framtida reduktion. Det är, som vi alla vet, viktigt även med immateriella kulturarv: arkitekten.se/nyheter/stat...

Took my friend to visit Sverre Fehn’s Storhamarlåven (1969-74) with the luxury of having the whole place to ourselves. This is the holy grail. Norway pilgrimage, let’s go 🧣🧵 #sverrefehn

Went cycling around Malmö looking at balconies on 1930s buildings for a renovation we're doing in the co-op where I live. This isn't actually a useful reference but it is a lovely building:

Söderledskyrkan:

A long thread with Stockholm mid-century housing:

Regarding Per Albin's terraced house: his was the end of terrace with an apse-like protrusion (more drawings can be found here: stockholmskallan.stockholm.se/post/33179)

Paul Hedqvist‘s functionalist collective terrace at Ålstensgatan (1932-3). Per Albin Hansson, who was the prime minister of Sweden from 1923 to 1946 lived here, which seems just right.

Léonie & Charles-Eduoard Geisendorf’s S’s Görans gymnasium, Stockholm (1960). A masterpiece.

As I'm back toiling here's a photo of one of the empty buildings at Kockum's former shipyard in Malmö:

Oh, we visited this on my first year study trip just four years after it was opened. Probably should start reading the magazine as it's weeks since I got it.

My phone just reminded me it's three years since I walked the Trutg dil Flem mainly to see the various Jürg Conzett bridges:

Various Vauban-designed structures seen last week in Brittany (Camaret-sur-Mer, Le Palais & 2 x St-Malo):

Some more ramparts from last week, this time from Mont-Saint-Michel:

In the lesser of the Britains where a quick look seems to indicate they like their half-timbering:

accidental abstract art: panels used behind Brio wooden toys as they were being spray painted.