A friend's daughter plays in the Delft university orchestra, and my friend shared this incredibly cool graphic for their next concert:

Model for Museum of Modern Art, Philip L. Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, 1939

“my place Saturday tapping a new cask of amontillado come on over”

Hope everyone is ok in the cold snap 🥶. Photo by former Isokon resident László Moholy-Nagy after he left London and moved to the USA

Restoration detail from Notre-Dame, Paris (last week)

Attention architectural historians: Vincent Scully's house is for sale... @langealexandra.bsky.social @christinecipriani.bsky.social @bgoldst.bsky.social www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

DUMBO as a working port, c. 1910 (Center for Brooklyn History)

Sourcing for movie night: What's your favorite CHRISTMAS CAROL movie adaptation?

I never tire of the Wurts Brothers' architectural photos of early-20th-century New York. Here is Richard Wurts, c. 1939, with an image from the World’s Fair. (Museum of the City of New York)

Oh, Frank Gehry. I spent a lovely, lovely hour with him in his office a few years ago. He kept apologizing for having forgotten so much, but he remembered what mattered. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Happy hols from the Harvard Lampoon

The monks dormitory #CleeveAbbey #Somerset Pointed single light and window seat. Evidence of horizontal window bars remains #WindowsOnWednesday #DormitoryCleeveAbbey

Here is the Stahl family's FB message regarding the sale of Case Study House 22. Possibly my all-time #1 architecture tour... Carlotta and Mark Stahl were hosting and it was absolutely magical. No one wanted to leave. Won't be the same under new owners, esp. given likely price tag, but 🤞

World-class trolling (Trump plans to paint Eisenhower Building white) www.archpaper.com/2025/11/pres...

❤️ “An overt reference to New York City's skyline, the ‘Manhattan’ cocktail set represents the 1930s fascination with all things modern and urban."

I need someone to tell me that this is not real That the most important building in America has not been turned into a sleazy 80s AC casino

Trump has fired the entire Commission of Fine Arts, and also -- there's a rendering -- www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-...

Happy news. This series is such a monument.

The private White House Historical Association has a statement on the East Wing that reads like a hostage video. They have (ahem) photographed the rooms for posterity, and "historic artifacts from the East Wing have been preserved and stored." How many...? www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/p...

These are great images. Do we know if they saved the paintings? So many questions.

Oct 24, 1919: The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed its first concert at the Trinity Auditorium in #DTLA. timelines.latimes.com/los-angeles-... #performingarts It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!

I didn't even know this existed -- too late --

Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.

OK, this is good and brightened my day. By illustrator Sean Suchara

The thing is: It's probably NOT going to be torn down after Trump. Demolition will be seen as wasteful and histrionic. It's probably permanent.

It's like Bonwit Teller but worse. I wish the dumpster fire of news wasn't crowding out this stuff.

This is so cool --

Las Vegas McCarran (opened 1963), by Welton Becket and Associates, and John Replogle. 📷 Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection via UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives. #airportarchitecture www.instagram.com/p/CW50_3oFWbo/

It will dwarf the actual White House and be paid for by "Google, R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, NextEra Energy," and so on.

What a great idea! --

Forest Park, Illinois. I kind of like it even though I don't know what it is.

Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French), Le petit atelier, 1850

Rockport by night

Reminds me of Jim Stirling's 'boatshop / bookshop' in Venice

Huzzah, Bluesky added bookmarks! I hadn't even written my strongly worded letter yet. 🙏

New Yorker cover by Mary Petty, May 24, 1941.

Ada Louise Huxtable was ON IT (1965): Cumbernauld "is a remarkable creative exercise in the pursuit of total environment, carried out with extraordinarily subtle and sophisticated details." nyti.ms/3UYECx7

“With the grounds and studio now open, the foundation has invited the Palisades Library to hold family storytimes and book clubs onsite.” ❤️

Fantastically theatrical stairway in an apartment block in Metz.

Best news item this summer (NYT). I want to order a root-beer float from this character, and then write a children’s book about the experience.

Congrats to the new Chicago Review of Architecture -- so exciting! www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/675...

St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital Chapel (1975) designed by sculptor Lee Schillereff (sorry, had to repost because of a typo lol)

Incredible old elevator, Red Lion Inn, Stockbridge, Mass.

Excellent interview with Christopher Hawthorne about his career, marked by historic shifts in culture and criticism

Lovely visit to the Addison Gallery at Philips Academy Andover, one of those smallish museums that's just the right size. Couldn't escape the glare, but -- this photo! Lucien Aigner, Louis Armstrong in a swing performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rockefeller Center, 1939

Welbeck Street Car Park, Marylebone 1971 M. R. Blampied & Partners bit.ly/4eYbdfC

The USPS "turns 250 on July 26, 2025 📫🎂. Since its founding, architecture, transportation, and technology have been integral to how the USPS operates. Trace the history of the post office’s built forms, and a narrative of an evolving nation unfolds with it."

This is fascinating and so heartening, since they seem to be finding work.