M/F ended kerbstones are one of the an example of something incredibly simple and efficient

A Welsh 'Slate Trimmer' in pencil and paper by the amazing Mary Elizabeth Thompson. The quarrymen looks to be using a yllell naddu (splitting knife) with a drafael (wooden support featuring a vertical iron blade). #geology #thestoryofslate #wales

So excited to announce the release of my book ART DECO WORLD! A global survey of the beloved style’s past 100 years from inception to rebirth (to rebirth again!), it will be released September 1. U.S. and int’l readers can register for a pre-order link here: www.routledge.com/Art-Deco-Wor...

angers me when they use ’working class‘ to mean only old white guys in the trades, excluding all the service workers, nurses, childcare… but as a union-dues-paying working-class tradesperson I have something to say to this oily smudge: fuck you you don’t know shit about our “ways of communication”

The 11th century tower doorway of St. Andrew’s Church at Little Snoring in Norfolk. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #LittleSnoring #Norfolk

Backrooms and junkspace. www.dezeen.com/2026/06/16/b...

Are Ralph Erskine’s 1958 drawings of Kiruna really of Kiruna in 1958? If so, are they amongst the first drawings of solar panels in urban design? Or are they of Resolute Bay, Canada in 1973? And what might this tell us about drawings, and a shared Arctic urbanism? medium.com/a-chair-in-a...

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Església-Hospital de Sant Julià, Girona (Catalunya) 🇪🇸 emiliaromanica.com/2026/06/15/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 21 de juliol de 2025

clock and bell and bins, Carleton Place Post Office

clock and bell and bins, Carleton Place Post Office

Carleton Place Post Office from the back lanes

late 19thc proto pomo, cornice composed of just one oversized cyma reversa (and a torus)

EVENT: An exclusive C20 Members @thecosmichouse.bsky.social tour - a Grade I listed masterpiece of Post-Modern architecture by Charles and Maggie Jencks, and Terry Farrell (1978-83) 🗓️ Tue 14 Jul - 12:30pm + 3:00pm 📍 Holland Park, Kensington 🎟️ Book tickets: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...

And god help us if we ever imagine that an SOP or training program can do the same job as Bob. Cherish Bob, and give him the resources he needs raise up a new generation of Bobs.

When you don’t understand that many of us work in shops or mills or on construction sites precisely to escape from the “formal training program for [shop managers or whatever]”.

Santa Maria de Covet, Covet, Lleida (Catalunya) 🇪🇸 emiliaromanica.com/2026/06/12/ 📷 @emilia_romanica　 20 de juliol de 2025

Douglas Adams: > Anything in the world when you're born is normal, ordinary and a natural part of the world. Anything invented between when you’re 15-35 is new, exciting and revolutionary and you can get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things. 1/

Reducing friction in bureaucracy by automating email and form-creation via AI won’t make lives easier; we’ll just have more emails and more forms to attend to; it’s the friction that keeps the volume down

James Strutt in the news yesterday; I seem to have manifested this www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

reverse squinch at George King’s Carleton Place Town Hall, corbels transitioning from round to octagonal form

Get ready to expand your understanding of masonry (especially 18th century masons) and their fascinating #MaterialCulture during this week's #RevereHouseRadio episode with Hilary Anderson Stelling of Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library! bit.ly/4diLmyF

Since the topping out ceremony is today, you should be aware that the storm drainage systems of La Sagrada Família rely on a series of snail gargoyles which serve as downspout nozzles.

love the way these iron balusters work with the stone of Thomas Fuller’s Carleton Place Post Office, the oxidization of one referring to that of the other, the ovate form echoing the eroded corners, touching the smoothed surfaces and then the rock-faced walling

Never going to get over Trump wanting to build a smooth walled triumphal arch.

My next London #urbangeology walk is on Saturday 20th June and will take in the stories of stone used for building the Palace of Westminster and surrounding buildings. Reservations and more info via London Walks www.walks.com/our-walks/ge...

RETVRN to the fits of early electrification Town halls, Carleton Place & North Gower

contrary to appearances Beckwith Brown is not a sandstone Town Hall, Carleton Place, 1895-7, George King

serlian motif in romanesque/gothic revival idiom Town Hall, Carleton Place, 1895-7, George King

memorial, Holy Trinity, North Gower

Arnprior marble in North Gower

bonkers for the mannerist perversity of these rock-faced buttress weatherings, the very surfaces that ought to give the least friction to the flow of water are cut to catch and trap it St. Augustine’s, Acton’s Corners, 1879 Winchester United (formerly Methodist), 1883

drove by this gem so felt the need to revisit some photos taken a few years ago Trinity United, James Strutt, 1963

the utter fucking shamelessness (or historical illiteracy) to reference a conflict in which Canadians and British and French and many many others lost their lives fighting fascism for YEARS before the Americans showed up, to make the point that America wants allies that show up

running bond for the punters common bond taking care of business

five doors four lights three numerals two curbs one canopy

View from the office

The geologist James Hutton was born in Edinburgh 300 years ago tomorrow. Two slices of Scottish geology I (an ecologist) have enjoyed studying. The Moine Thrust Mylonites at Faraid Head, Balnekeil Bay and lichens on a basalt dyke in Lewisian gneiss, Raasay. #geology #JamesHutton #DeepTime #Scotland

Same problem in Rome with the obelisk in St. Peter's Square & the axis of the nave of the basilica. (Placement of the obelisk predates construction of the nave.) Bernini's oval piazza slightly compensates for the skew, minimizing its perception by the viewer. Image: www.jstor.org/stable/1481581

In what sane world does this not make him persona non grata

being painstakingly straight during pride month to avoid appropriation and stolen valor because I'm an ally. I just men-in-blacked myself and cannot remember a single broadway musical number.

At the bottom of the column, just above the drama of all the toruses and scotias and fillets, there is a brief moment when the mouldings curl slightly and rise vertically and leave the heavy base behind. This is called the escape.

Storhamarlåven reopened yesterday with a shiny new building so let’s go celebrate! Round 2, Sverre Fehn I’m back 🤍 Nice day out enjoying the sun and playing a game of “what did Fehn mean by this” ☀️💭🪏

Hi everyone, we’ve set up a Lime Finishes Group account here and I’d love it if you would give us a follow! Posts about everything lime finish-related, lots of historic buildings, archaeology, art, science and more! 🤩 bsky.app/profile/lime...

Boss: Did you carve a skeletal reaper on that grave? Carve: Sure did, boss. Real fuckin sexy, just like you asked.

In 1648, during the English Civil War, the southern pele tower of Blencowe Hall, Cumbria was attacked, damaging the front of the tower. It remained a ruin until 2007 when it was restored by the country estate that owned the property and converted into holiday accommodation. #WallsOnWednesday

Christ sits atop a rainbow in 'the last judgement' on the extraordinary Babington monument of 1538 at St Winifred's, Kingston on Soar. The damned enter a gaping hellmouth bottom right whilst heaven is shown as the tower top left, the pipe playing angels seranading the blessed. #SundayStonework

Repulsive. Public money paying for fascist propaganda. Encampments are rare; they are not a danger; this government is doing nothing to help the people who live in them or to solve the underlying problems.

It's a Pre-ferendum

Riving oak with the riving brake leaned up against an oak tree seems like something Shel Silverstein would write about