I'm quite proud of this. Not because it's the best writing ever, but because it's important as a critic to be critical... At a time of press trips & pr-paid for events, it's easy to just talk about good things, ignore the bad or wax things that need to be critiqued. It's not easy to, however ...

Bologna photo drop

Ferrara photo drop

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in. Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

A good chance it won't make the 2030s.

I'm quite proud of this. Not because it's the best writing ever, but because it's important as a critic to be critical... At a time of press trips & pr-paid for events, it's easy to just talk about good things, ignore the bad or wax things that need to be critiqued. It's not easy to, however ...

This is not "gay news". It's "fascist news"

Hoping that this post might blow up

This is not "gay news". It's "fascist news"

Nothing worse than using AI slop in an announcement of what may become an actual building project, for which they don't yet have a site or architect. It's just distracting from the actual news & conversation, turns a proposition into a singular thing, & lowers understanding of architectural process.

In love with the columns on Ferrara cathedral.

It's gotta be frustrating for journalists scraping by and doing great work to go to NY Times dot com and read a puff piece written by a nepo baby that whitewashes a journalist who had sex with a source and has now parlayed that into a new book and a job at Vanity Fair

Countdown

My review of this is now live on @news.architectsjournal.co.uk www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/cul...

When Jacob Rees Mogg and his ventriloquist kid is like this we all laugh. When "national treasures" Gilbert & George do it then suddenly it's art & interesting. It's not, it's all Tory but different performances.

For the first time since it's founding there's an actual conspiracy that indicts powerful elites and there are actual documents that actually prove it and Infowars is like "nah"

It's a Carlo Scarpa Christmas!

Hah. Bologna airport passport control trying to get tickets from Radiohead in return for getting them through quickly .... Italy, never change!

turns out Piss Christ really WAS just juvenile edgelordism

This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like: Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.

My dad worked on the Jubilee Line Extension Project & i visited stations before they opened - an architectural feat. I happened to be in Southwark the day it opened & I recall travellers rising this elevator & going straight to the glowing blue wall to touch it, a real genuine response to design.

My review of this is now live on @news.architectsjournal.co.uk www.architectsjournal.co.uk/practice/cul...

Oh wow! A London Underground station being officially Listed is always great news - this one especially so. Southwark station, 1999 by MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, has just been Listed at Grade 2. Now for the other JLE stations. @c20society.bsky.social historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

🫢 "Mr. Epstein described Mr. Trump as a “dirty” businessman who was “borderline insane,” untrustworthy and worse in “real life and upclose” than the image he sought to portray to the public." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Chatting with a grifter on Instagram who claims that all art was "classical realism" until the first photograph, and that's why we now have modern art. But he refuses to give any evidence except "do your own research". I love this kind of education. www.instagram.com/p/DQorQpEjCg...

For the love of god, video artists please work out how the systems you are using work. This is a very common occurrence.

Chatting with a grifter on Instagram who claims that all art was "classical realism" until the first photograph, and that's why we now have modern art. But he refuses to give any evidence except "do your own research". I love this kind of education. www.instagram.com/p/DQorQpEjCg...

For a thing, what are the best or worst toilets (public or private) that you have ever used.... Design, usability, view, experience....

Is the author on crack? Old is one of the most unintentionally hilarious films I've seen. share.google/hEdyQsiC7hNA...

How on earth does Calatrava keep getting these gigs? Yet another project with an overrun of costs & time with financial irregularities. This time the Gare du Mons, 13x overbudget and ten years late.

Nice to see the Swansea FC mascot bow their head at today's @remembrancewatch.bsky.social minute's silence

I love architecture exhibition text. It really helps the general public understand things.

Week 2: Nature & Un-nature As some asked, here is the reading for the second week of my @ucl.ac.uk seminar series on fear and landscape

Week 4: Spectral landscapes

Excellent story & thread from Alison. The Line frequently recurs in my teaching & thinking, currently in my Landscapes of Fear seminar series at UCL, and also prominently in my talk in Vilnius here on the Cybernetic Picturesque: youtu.be/xwk0UH5vQLY?...

My last piece from Venice Biennale of Architecture: canvasonline.com/a-mixed-bag-...

Thinking about this photo again.

Excellent story & thread from Alison. The Line frequently recurs in my teaching & thinking, currently in my Landscapes of Fear seminar series at UCL, and also prominently in my talk in Vilnius here on the Cybernetic Picturesque: youtu.be/xwk0UH5vQLY?...

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Congrats to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social on her new book, which I'm very excited to read soon - & am 100% sure will get onto my seminar reading lists. Also lovely to see one of my Covid Picturesque photos make the opening spread. Out on @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

This is appalling from every angle.

Why respected architecture journals and magazines continue to commission him is beyond me

"icon"

Every time I'm in Lisbon, even if there's not much free time I always find an hour to go to this little oyster place off the beaten track.

Two decades ago Neil Leach was in that group of people thinking about how technology cold improve cities and architecture. Today, his Instagram feed today is relentless and embarrassing AI slop.

Temporary & permanent culture fine a place in Middlesbrough by @willjennings.bsky.social recessed.space/00303-Middle...

Suffolk NEOM

We're going to find out later that that is marbled wallpaper, I'm sure of it.

A totally normal country talking about a nonce in a very normal way

"artist" Lol. AI slop from crypto grifters.