This is probably the best summary of how the American right wing has depicted, and will continue to depict Canada. An atomized, mongrel country ruled by henpecked judges, rife with 5th columnists and unable to define itself. Probably doomed even if we’re not put out of our misery by Washington.

This is obviously a deeply stupid and bizarre piece that is simultaneously up its own ass, but I think it’s worth taking a look through it. On the one hand, to admire the derangement- but on a darker note, to consider how this stuff could make it’s way into more “serious” pro-annexation messages.

Les camemberts à Noisy-le-Grand les Arènes de Picasso conçues par l'arch Manuel Núñez Yanowsky en 81 et inaugurées en 85 L'axe de ces 2 immeubles cylindriques sont parallèles à l'équateur. Ils représentent les roues d'un chariots. 4 entrées pour y accéder, nord, sud, est, ouest.

93 Noisy-le-Grand, Les Espaces HLM d'Abraxas, de Ricardo Bofill, en 1985 incarnent un des derniers vestiges des utopies des années 1970. Cette cité atypique, qui a servi de décor rétro-futuriste pour des films dystopiques, attire des curieux du monde entier.

Raffi Against the Machine

FUCK EM UP, RAFFI

It's a horrible horrible example of Atwood's "men are scared women will laugh at them, women are scared men will kill them"

Indignantly quotes Chrystia Freeland describing the US as a predator, then goes on to describe the way Canada should be broken up and annexed. What a clown-shoed shitweasel (not OP, the author of the article)

Sometimes when I want to feel better about the world I sort endlessly through a pile of 2x4s at the Home Depot

looking at this like a kid with his face pressed up against the toy store window knowing he’s not getting it

The Spanish version is “the left liberates, the right oppresses” and once I learned that, both screws and politics made more sense

Vaults spring 360 degrees from a central pier purportedly celebrating the wholeness of confederation but the ribs at the cardinal points, identical in profile, are distinguished with spring points defined slightly lower on the tas-de-charge. All ribs are equal but some are more equal.

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I've wanted to see the crypt of Oxford Castle for a very long time. I crossed it off the list today and it didn't disappoint #Romanesque

What a day to finally see the Elizabeth Catlett exhibit at the Art Institute

#ThursdayBins in Bethnal Green

love these label-stop vignettes of bowtied civil servants or members of parliament

bx storage

Looking up

Fun find today, tucked up under the ceiling of the House of Commons: graffiti left by stonecarvers Marcel & Maurice Joanisse. The two started under Dominion Sculptor Eleanor Milne in the early 70s, but apparently were already working here in the 60s. Maurice would become Dominion Sculptor in 1993.

Love that entering the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower, a sacred space dedicated to Canada’s war dead, one passes under a tympanum commemorating the animals who also died in war, the horses and mules and pigeons and dogs.

View from the office

Keeping it together

When you die the funeral director should ask your next of kin if you were a side sleeper

Merry Xmas to me

Doges Palace, Etobicoke franchise

Excited to see one of the best modernist buildings in Memphis, the 1956 Rust Hall by Roy Harrover, under renovation to reopen in 2026 as the home of the National Ornamental Metal Museum!

Love this control joint

Common bond brick at the vertical points of support and non-structural basketweave at the spandrels.

Walking it off

Britannia Row, London N1 Stone wall building with cut stone window and door frame. #reference #buildingreference #materialreference

offseason

retrofit fire egress Taylor Hazell Architects, 1992-2010, Humber College Lakeshore Campus

stonemasons roadtrip

Lewtrenchard Manor #Devon Such wonderful skill displayed in producing this beautiful tile-like floor made of upright slates. Once home of Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould hymn writer, folklore & folk song collector & lover of #Dartmoor. #TilesOnTuesday

I am back from a wonderful @docomomous.bsky.social tour of modern buildings in Japan led by Ken Tadashi Oshima. I expected a lot of concrete, Kenzo Tange and Tadao Ando, but my favourite visits were to the houses, bridging traditional and western design.

持ち送る者

LLMer Fudd.

Staring at Pisa's Leaning Tower? Turn around, refocus your eyes on the cathedral masonry. You'll see Roman spolia and other inscriptions. Here's an example and two shots from the museum of a Roman frieze reused for late 12th cent. panels #SundayStonework #SundaySpolia #SpoliaSunday #AncientBluesky

The great old comedy writer Larry Gelbart said that your style is formed by what you can’t do. I wish more people understood that. That and the Martha Graham quote about keeping the channel open.

Loving this. "Antirender" engine converts architects presentation drawings into the likely reality of the designs :) antirender.com

I mean LLMs make *everything* boring, banal (derogatory) which is kinda the point of LLMs? They mash together into a blob as much human experience as can be pirated & then infer an individual expression from that & when everything is reduced to a probability there’s little room for the improbable.

Queenston limestone and snow Carving by the aptly named Coeur de Lion MacCarthy

With North American publication coming in two months, I gathered the cover blurb, some photos, and the TOC from our Bernini's Architectural Drawings in a blog post. Check it out! #architecture #historiography #earlymodern #art susanklaiber.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/n...

a small bit of Prairie Style in Ottawa: Horticulture Building, Lansdowne Park, 1914, Francis Sullivan Sullivan worked in Frank Lloyd Wright's Oak Park studio in 1907

view from the office

Western Grain Robert Newton Hurley 1944

📣Publication day🎉 ⚒️ ‘Through its engagement with the groundbreaking work of the architect and theorist Sérgio Ferro, who developed a history of architecture ‘seen from the building site’, the book sets out a programme for a new field of Production Studies for architecture and other disciplines.’