Today we're launching our Empire State Building selection, part of our New York Architecture collection, celebrating this beautiful behemoth of American art-deco might architectural-icons.com/collections/ne…

Today we're launching our Empire State Building selection, part of our New York Architecture collection, celebrating this beautiful behemoth of American art-deco might architectural-icons.com/collections/ne…

Alexandra Road Estate, one of the world's great examples of beautiful, equitable social housing in a walkable urban form by the great Neave Brown, and for which we have a beautiful collection of prints & products architectural-icons.com/collections/br…

Alexandra Road Estate, one of the world's great examples of beautiful, equitable social housing in a walkable urban form by the great Neave Brown, and for which we have a beautiful collection of prints & products architectural-icons.com/collections/br…

I find the exterior of Kyoto station just as thrilling as its interior, it is truly the only megastructure that has been realised to this scale, in a postmodern idiom…

Looking along the interior elevation of the main concourse

Inside again, just look at the figures on the bottom left for a sense of scale…

Now, if you can believe it… ABOVE that giant concourse space is an absolutely humungous public staircase that continues up a lot further to a whole outdoor roofspace that culminates in a roof ‘park’ overlooking the city

The piling up of different structural members, architectural motifs, materials and stone, together with the towering height, is the cloests iv ever come to feeling the sense of awe tbat i get from Piranesi’s etchings

or maybe as close as one might get to actually BEING inside the architect’s imagination… not only is it almost too vast to fully comprehend, like Lutyens’ great design for Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, it knows how to emphasise its scale…

THREAD: One of the world’s great anomalies, Kyoto Station by Hiroshi Hara (1997) is a town-sized, public megastructure, fully built in one go to the coherent and total vision of a brilliant architect, effectively acting as a vast manifesto…

The marvellous Ossington Coffee Tavern, Beast Market Hill, Newark, 1882, endowed by Charlotte Viscountess Ossington, widow of a Commons Speaker. Failing commercially as a temperance establishment it became a hotel in 1889. Now coffee, drinks and jazz.

Thomas Heatherwick in print and rhetoric (and on the bbc with his own radio show) vs Thomas Heatherwick’s latest gift to us Londoners

Please someone bring some sunshine to old England

A beautifully detailed modernist building in Berlin Mitte, the Jewish Girls School, with the shatteringly inauspicious date 1927-30. The architect, Alexander Beer was himself murdered at Theresienstadt.

Last hour or so to get our sweatshirts with a 15% discount: architectural-icons.com/collections/ar…

The streets behind the Savoy

Parametric architecture was always just meant to be shwoopy seating. Shouldve stayed there

Any of you been watching the amazing FX Show 'Shogun'? Well we have a collection celebrating the central tower of Osaka Castle that features heavily in the show (and will perhaps be taken by Toranaga?!) architectural-icons.com/collections/ar…