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

The noise of Everything Else is crowding out culture. Just learned from @docomomous.bsky.social about this one-hour film and must watch -- www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbou...

September 9, 1850: California entered the Union #onthisday 175 years ago. #CaliforniaHistory For several centuries, European maps portrayed California as an island, as shown in this mosaic mural (1969) at LA County's Norwalk Library.

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...

Ada Louise Huxtable reviewed the new addition to this museum in 1970 (spoiler alert: she loved it and the museum)! By local firm Sherwood, Mills and Smith.

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.

Having just finished a years-long research and writing project — this is the thing. Some of us have to push back (hard) against the idea that research and writing are drudge work that society should try to eliminate. Yes, they’re hard, but they’re also forms of art.

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.

People who know Amsterdam: We're thinking of spending a few days there after Christmas, possibly over the New Year. Good time to be in the city? Any seasonal recos, or favorite sites in general? Thank you!

Nothing like the iconic @britishlibrary.bsky.social door!

Lovely interior --

Any other location-spotters notice that Jimmy and Kayla's office in HACKS is architecturally interesting? Turns out it's in the American Cement Building (Daniel, Mann, Johnson, and Mendenhall, 1964), in Westlake.

"Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits," at the MFA Boston, is a small, sensitive show featuring portraits of the artist's friends and neighbors in Arles, Joseph and Augustine Roulin and their children. www.mfa.org/exhibition/v...

Box-fresh beach huts on the north promenade #greatyarmouth. There are signs up advertising the bright new huts for hire if you fancy a little home-from-home in #norfolk 😊🏖️

Sounds good

OMG, these are beautiful 🍁

Our Lady’s School turned inside out, front entry built 1904, partially demolished 2013

Super-late to this for reasons, so I'm re-upping for this afternoon -- was so excited to learn that @langealexandra.bsky.social had won the Pulitzer Prize! So richly deserved! And how great that the winning work was on design for families. Huge congrats.

Was sad to hear about Bob Campbell, who (as strange as it might sound) had a wonderfully chill quality as both writer and person. Worth noting: how many readers comment on the obit to say how much they valued having an architecture critic. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/01/m...

I needed some Jencks today

Beautiful details

Charles Willson Peale, "The Artist in His Museum" (self-portrait), 1822. Peale founded the nation's first museum in Independence Hall, Philly.

Saint Paul University

LOL

Some nice images here.

Time for luxury condos at Breuer’s HUD building

The mind boggling beauty of the murals in the Sala dei Mesi in the Palazza Schifanoia in Ferrara, by Francesco del Cossa and Cosmè Tura, executed ca 1469–70

took son to the British Museum, found the only artifact that matters

The Humber Bridge