Today is World Environment Day but in short order we've been hit by news of a new major fish kill, taken to court by EU over continued illegal turf cutting, singled out as UN example of what not to do when it comes to data centres & falling short on climate action targets We can do better than this

Azalea garden in autumn colors at Ankoku-ji temple, Hyogo, Japan. Photography by hirotie on photohito

#onthisday, 1 June 1872, the People's #TurkishBaths opened in Thomas's Lane, #Dublin at 6d a bath. After Mrs C G Donovan's women's campaign failed to get the city to provide the baths, they were built as a gift to Dublin by Mr Richard Barter, eldest son of Dr Barter. Open till at least 1892 🗃️ #C19th

Großes Schauspielhaus, Hans Poelzig, Berlin, Germany, 1919.

Friday, day off...find Hoggis figgis gift card i'd forgoten about with just over €66 on it..what to do?

Classical Dentils at the Dentist.....sounds like the start of a Sultans of Ping song....😁

TEE (Trans Europ Express) posters of the 1960s

In Galway today. I think this nattily dressed guy is asking what that big bright thing in the sky is...

Entrance door, 269 Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights. Architect unknown. c.1930.

The undercroft of the west range at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, visited last month. 'The best preserved Cistercian monastery in the country... there is nowhere else in the country where one can so readily evoke an image of English monastic life' thought Pevsner.

Really shocked to hear this, I was in college with Orla in Bolton Street in the mid to late 80s.

I have always regretted not keeping all my mom's design magazines, but I just found 3- a house and home from 1952, a Forum from 63, and a Progressive Architecture from 72. I am going to have fun tonight reading these!

Tá páirc bhainc an Chanáil Ríoga i Baile Phib Galánta inniu. The Royal Canal bank park in phibsborough is lovely today.

Natasha Huq, an associate at GRAS architects, has won the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice 2026 for her work on the restoration of Preston Tower in Prestonpans near Edinburgh

The serene, emerald heart of a traditional moss garden (koke-niwa) in Japan. Photograph captured by Japanese landscape photographer Katsu_e46 on Instagram

Amazing to think that fresh water pipes of wood were still being installed into the 1950s

Dublin earlier...

Tá súil agam go bhfuil Domhnach maith agaibh cosúil le Sasha. I hope you're having a good Sunday like Sasha

Donegal crash: Two dead after collision at Birchhill – BBC https://www.europesays.com/ie/488352/ Donegal crash: Two dead after collision at Birchhill  BBC Two dead after road traffic collision in Co Donegal  RTE.ie Two…

I can’t think of a better way to pay tribute to the memory of Douglas Richardson than to post some photos of the Victorian architecture he so loved. I’ll start with a building he once described to me as “unutterably lovely”: the Oxford Museum, by Deane & Woodward, built 1855-60.

RIP David Burke, the first actor to play Watson with Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock Holmes, in the finest adaptation of the Holmes stories that has ever been made. He was 91 years old. #SherlockHolmes

You have to admire nature's distain for our artificial environments...

Free modernist architecture tours of Bristol, Glasgow, Huddersfield, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield - on our free app the-modernist.org/blogs/news-1...

Having a coffee on the Drive on a sunny Saturday and thinking back to that time we paid for a parking space for a bit of afternoon socializing.

An raibh a fhios agat go bhfuil ceann de na bailiúcháin Gaeilge is fairsinge ar domhan i seilbh Leabharlann Náisiúnta na hÉireann? Faigh tuilleadh eolais: https://www.nli.ie/news-stories/stories/bailiuchain-ghaeilge-na-leabharlainne-naisiunta

Took a short cut through Anglesea Street Dublin just now. Look well in the sunshine.

Super fun interactive tool by @vicnaum allows you to see which cities are "latitude buddies" with your city. Did you know that Buenos Aires and Adelaide are latitude buddies? Or Los Angeles and Teheran? Have a play here: buff.ly/FATl1Mi

John Singer Sargent’s 'Crashed Aeroplane' (1918) has a strong 'Landscape with the Fall of Icarus' vibe. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Illustrator Jean-Jacques Sempé drawing a person riding a bike, one of his favorite subjects

Some Magic Lantern Slides bought recently, dating from 1880-90. Kingstown Harbour (Dun Laoighaire), Elevated Railway New York, Judgement Hall Prague Castle & Milan Cathedral.

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A visit to the gorgeous opera house in Turin with @c20society.bsky.social, designed by Carlo Mollino and completed in 1973, replacing the old one that was destroyed in a 1936 fire. Egg-shaped auditorium, star-shaped concrete ceilings, oval apertures in the entrance, and Piranesi-inspired stairs.

The planned regeneration of Dublin city’s Oliver Bond flats has been scrapped after the Department of Housing withdrew funding for the project jrnl.ie/7032316

Picked up a copy of the Dublin Historic Town Atlas of Dublin Part 3 1756-1847 today in Oxfam Parliament Street Dublin for €15. www.ria.ie/irish-histor...

The interior and garden of Matabe, a traditional residence in Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan, redesigned in 2015 by architect Kazuhiro Minabe. The composition highlights the seamless integration of indoor and outdoor spaces, a hallmark of Japanese architecture

May be of interest to anybody with access to BBC IPlayer. "Rockwell Kent, the Gaeltacht, Cold War and Annie McGinley" www.bbc.com/news/uk-nort...

View from Carrickfinn Beach in Donegal.

Support your local Pizza box Library.

Available in Oxfam Parliament Street Dublin today for €8, €5 & €50.

The former Dolphin Hotel has some fantastic details.

Haworth Tompkins has been commissioned to deliver a £10 million scheme to refurbish London’s Royal Festival Hall.

just heard the sad news of the passing of Gráinne Uí Mhaithiú (best known to many of us as a presenter on Bosco). hope her family knows she brought a lot of joy to a generation of kids #speirgorm

Father in Law brought me a couple of books on London Zoo today. Worked as a keeper in London from the late 50s to 80s. Then head keeper in Dublin Zoo from then until he retired about 2007. Also brought me about 200 magic Lantern slides of London Zoo & animals from the early 1870s to the early 1900s

Indoor swimming pool designed by Danish designer Verner Panton for the Spiegel publishing house in Hamburg, 1969. It sadly doesn’t exist any more but can someone please bring back Pop Art Swimming Pools?

- I know all of you cherish Michelangelo, and so do I. Honestly, though, the clarity and the beauty of Brunelleschi's architecture is so inspiring for me that I tend to prefer him to his later counterpart. The City is a whole, and it is of much more value than the sum of its parts. 02/02

Nice wee Terracotta coping in Phibsborough D7.

RIP Alex Zinardi. Such an irrepressible spirit & competitor. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

Had a lovely meal tonight in www.foret.ie with @jobw.bsky.social do go

'Members of the Young Communist League protesting the housing crisis by staging a sit-in on the roof of a show house at the Ideal Home Exhibition, London, 1973.'

"Prouvé dedicated himself to making cheap homes, industrially produced for emergency situations: for refugees, soldiers, the displaced, dispossessed, those sent to colonial outposts. His deep social concern steered him away from the architect’s diet of one-off boutique houses towards basic shelter."