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The tomb of Rowland Leschman, Prior of Hexham Abbey from 1480 to 1491. #TombTuesday

and the appeal to american originalism screams inferiority complex. That’s not canadian legal tradition! It doesn’t matter what framers intended then, it matters how it is interpreted now

Map of North America, Greg Curnoe, 1972

Friday aft mood

view from the office

An amazingly modern looking Egyptian Stela with a 'pitch face' style border with a hieroglyph panel. Te chisel marks (centre) are typical of softer metal, such as the copper and bronze tools of the time. The right hand image shows scratch marks most likely from rubbing with a flat stone.

2 memorial stones, one at foundation—the oldest stone in the wall—the other a gablet weathering high on a tower; one commemorating dignified Personages with silver trowels, the other the small proud windy ceremony of those who laboured.

These guys should be given the Order of Canada for their contribution to unprecedented levels of Canadian unity.

gablet & label

view from the office

Here is your complete guide to build a "Harvest House". By the fantastic Material Cultures. No excuses. The future is biobased, you are as well. Get active. materialcultures.org/2026-hh-cons...

Library date with Sir Bas!! 📖 Swung by Basil Spence’s Swiss Cottage Library (1964) on a sunny Saturday; pleased to be pondering buildings at home again. Light and airy, plus excellent stair game. I’d liked if we still had the pool:

detail of Creation, by Haudenosaunee sculptor Joseph Jacobs, 1986, entry to House of Commons this panel depicts Sky Woman falling out of the old world into the new, caught by birds and carried down to rest on turtle's back

roofers graffiti

A #FridayFold in Franciscan mélange on Perle's Beach, Angel Island, CA. ⚒️

Not sure I can make this in person but perhaps of interest to folk keen on the processes of construction. csca.aha.cam.ac.uk/building-sit...

‘allège’ as an architectural term refers to the local reduction in the masonry wall below a window French, meaning a “disburdenment, easement, help towards the bearing of a burthen… any thing that lightens, or lessens a charge” (1650) 🧵

Rusticated Renaissance palazzi, Florence.

#ReliefWednesday One of my all-time favourite reliefs from Tuscany. Beneath pair of fantail doves, lion and unicorn w lovely feet are licking a cross. C 8-9 pluteus (dividing structure made of large slabs). Originally in church of San Concordio, Lucca, now in city's Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi.

‘allège’ as an architectural term refers to the local reduction in the masonry wall below a window French, meaning a “disburdenment, easement, help towards the bearing of a burthen… any thing that lightens, or lessens a charge” (1650) 🧵

thats news to Kashechewan

In York for What’s the Point Two 2026 and have been to admire my friend, the late Rory Young’s work at the Minster. We worked together in Fife in the nineties and I’m struck by how much I miss him.

The extraordinary brickwork of Our Daughters of the Sacred Heart atop a green hill in Kensington. Designed by architects #hennesseyhennessy as extensions (1920’s?) at each end of the pre-existing convent, the virtuoso arches & circles form beautiful open porches #sydneyarchitecture

Bring back republican simplicity

The reason everyone's In boxes are unmanageable and we all have a bazillion unread messages is because email eliminated postage stamps. It turns out that postage was congestion pricing for communication.

Very cool discussion of the use of color theories in industrial hygiene.

St. Pierre's, Cheticamp NS

boat engines, Cape Sable Island, NS

Learned a new technical term today: Archy. Partaking of the principles of an arch. from The American Glossary of Architectural Terms, 1887, George Garnsey

Find out more about the history of the Sanctuary and our interventions: e-artec.it/madonna-dell...

Church of the Holy Sepulcre, Jerusalem BnF MS Latin 13048; Adamnanus, De locis sanctis (ff.1-30); 9th c; f.4v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

sandstone capital of man with sack

complete marshmallow (derogatory)

Still don’t regret my vote to deny the Cons a govt but fuck me

The biggest challenge in reimagining global order today is how and where to locate it. The universal scope of the liberal international order means it's all inside and no outside. It's not so much a wall as an edge, with the nearest analogy to building something outside it being land reclamation.

Live your life in a way that people aren’t monitoring your rashes or bruises and hoping they get larger

broken lift

I once dreamt that I covered my house in glue and rolled it through Westminster Abbey. In Greetham, Rutland, Thomas Halliday, a Victorian stonemason, did the nearest possible thing - embedding medieval fragments from his restorations into his own house and yard.

Love this peek down the side of part of Senate House, Cambridge…poshest, highest quality 1730’s frontage, with a rough rubble construction attached (presume earlier & once with lime finish!).

monocle & papers

green man

Charon’s obols

wee sleekit beavie

To friends on here who couldnt make it to my talk and book launch at the Scottish Maritime Museum, the video of the talk is now online: youtu.be/hEYIFmWSbMQ?... If you want a signed book or have an outlet for a review, please DM me.

“dOnt cALL IT trilLioN-DOLLar aUtoCOrRecT”

Sun Came Finally Alex Janvier ~ Denesuline 1979

100% agree that Glasgow's management of its built environment needs to change, but 100% disagree that this 'heritage' is 'irreplaceable.'