A Glasgow “close”. The entrance and stairwell of a typical Glasgow tenement in a working class 19th century area

Just remembered that I said in this post that I was going to make another pair of cufflinks, but I made Fuck ICE earrings instead

This article is fantastic! Here's another municipal device (inverted), from Mosaic School of Fine Arts, also found on other schools around town.

Fantastic stuff from @ninametz.bsky.social, who was so fun to geek out with over this, & lovely, lovely quotes from @pmorse.bsky.social & @robertloerzel.bsky.social! This article is a feast for the nerds!

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undeniable

You can go look at this house, but you have to be comfortable with the fact that it's gonna be looking at you too

Should you chance to walk through this entrance, look up London Guarantee & Accident Building Architect: Alfred Alschuler, 1923

Does it count as breeze-block when it seems to be just bricks laid with gaps for breezes? South side of Foster, east of Sheridan. Bet the masons laying this brick had a blast. @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social

The Ridge Historical Society is sending its 2 biggest nerds to this event tomorrow to infodump on the unsuspecting public. I will also be running a presentation that uses my own family archives to talk about how now more than ever it is incredibly important to preserve & tell our stories ourselves.

1/2 The cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity & the GUMPTION of these architects to go this hard for Art Deco on some random high school. Absolutely breathtaking work. Bloom High School Chicago Heights, IL Architects: Royer, Danley & Smith, 1934 Addition: Schmidt, Garden & Erikson, 1956

My birthday is coming up. Someone get me a mini Hancock complete with a mini Cheesecake Factory in the lower level.

I do not have enough superlatives to describe the fierce brilliance & tenacity of this woman. My God.

this rat was so excited to get home! probably had just won the rat lottery or heard their kid got into the best rat college.

Marimar Martinez stays brave. Also—not making light of the violence she endured or the violence that’s killing people—the pic of her FLEXING THE BICEP hit by a Border Patrol bullet goes hard as hell. What a person. What a Chicagoan.

i am so fucking sick. just completely snotpilled over here. pity me.

who the fuck is that? what the fuck is that? when the fuck is that? why the fuck is that? all questions i try to answer in my alt text

600 N. Cicero, Chicago. Mural by bkeezy. barrettkeithley.com#about

After a bit of a hiatus, I'm back to reporting! My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social on the Black-women-led Oynx Health Collective, which acquired Roseland's historic Reformation Lutheran Church late last year to transform it into a community medical clinic. blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/02/h...

Me, unserious person: does not read article but tries to find coat

Good night from Chicago. A full Moon on the Feast of St. Brigid is always a good thing.

1/4 I have a library thing on family archives coming up & I'm weaving stuff from my own family into the presentation to make certain points. Once again putting my grandmother on blast for her awful archival practices, which included writing stuff like "kinda cute" on a guy's pic but not his name

When you just dropped the hardest diss track of 1959 📸 "Buicks & Their Owners" Mickey Pallas Archive/CCP

Another Holy Bungalow!🙏 I'm starting to love these little guys, which look like bungalows but were purpose-built churches. Though typically found on blocks where they match their neighbors in style, this Roseland example holds its own alongside larger apartment bldgs. Architect: A Ruttenberg, 1919

Berwyn, Illinois

Thank you to WGN’s Spotlight Chicago TV for inviting us to the studio yesterday. We appreciate the chance to talk about the work we’re doing across environmental justice, small business advocacy, transit safety, mutual aid and civic engagement.

Can I get a hell yeah for the Bimbo’s breeze block

I wrote a workshop last year using this slide as a placeholder for the presenters to personalize later. One of these days, my job is gonna get sick of my bullshit.

Floating Monuments: for Mecca will be displayed inside the Historic Roundhouse at the DuSable from February 14-16. Be sure to check it out if you missed last year's installation at IIT!

These designs are so rare! This ballroom in Detroit is in extreme disrepair, but the bonkers level of exuberant creativity this thing exudes remains incredible. Vanity Ballroom (as seen by me in August 2025) Detroit, MI Architect: Charles Agee, 1929 Old pic: Michigan Architect and Engineer, 1930

Barbican Centre, London EC2Y Concrete Circular open courtyard housing block #reference #materialreference #buildingreference

Regardless of any changes in employment status, it is still appropriate to shout "you're a piece of shit, you're a fucking loser" whenever you see this motherfucker

Epiphany Center for the Arts

WINTER STORM UPDATE

Hell yeah, former Meyercord Company Building. I've been waiting for you to show up on here! The original interiors were by Abel Faidy, who was aptly initialed because they do indeed go hard AF. Architect: Julius Floto, 1938 Old pics: buff.ly/4f9dmnh

Timeline cleanse on a tough winter day. Take care of yourselves.

We can bear witness to the atrocities of this regime without watching a precious life get brutally snuffed out in the street. We are experiencing state sponsored terrorism, and traumatizing us serves its interests.

This happened just yesterday, so we are still navigating a situation with a bunch of unknowns. Please help if you can. Positive vibes also requested!

Sir John Soane's Museum Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A Plaster arched ceiling with decorative trim and mouldings. Convex mirrors used to reflect light #reference #materialreference #propreference

The first artist to get STFU, Rahm merch in front of the people of Chicago is gonna make bank

Chicagoans are completely obnoxious about... well, everything. But especially our glorious Municipal Device. I made this pair of cufflinks for my husband a few years ago, but now I'm thinking I should do a pair with a version of the Device that goes harder.

Still my most fervent wish

1/2 Finally made it to the Chicago Architecture Biennial site at 840 N Michigan yesterday. Sharing just a handful of images from 65,000 sq ft of dead retail space converted into 5 floors of creativity & conversation. Exhibits named in alt, but there's a guide with descriptions here: buff.ly/kc5UK2C

My neighborhood paper complaining about bungalows in 1927 📸 Ridge Historical Society, Weekly Review Collection

Kirsch House looking cheery with the addition of a wreath on the front door Architect: Errol J Kirsch, 1982 Oak Park, IL

be not afraid of the biblically accurate light fixture

is there a badge for when you're dead inside

gaht DAMN this brickwork!

MOM! The Lake Michigan Live account is doing transcendent art again!