10 years later....This tepid plan for the rebuilding of the Glasgow School of Art will bring furher embarrassment and harm to an already sullied instition. The challenge is too big for the school itself. Make it a national project. Obvs.

two years ago today was the last time I saw and spoke to Alice.

The sun’s shining and i’m walking the dog with the smell of BBQ in the air.

but I’m still crying and doom scrolling, a kind of digital self harm.

What’s JKRs excuse for wasting such a beautiful day tweeting hate?

After yesterday’s announcement from The Glasgow School of Art there’s an excellent article by Rowan Moore in The Guardian about Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art which is worth a read 👀👇🤔👍!
theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Reinstate Sangita Myska to her Position at LBC - Sign the Petition! chng.it/LqkvXKT9gM via Change.org UK

more beauty

The Tree House by 6a Architects is for sale. Loving owners sought. keatons.com/sales/jubilee-… 6a.co.uk/projects/more/…

I’m enjoying this, by a Yorkshire Piacentini

Sir Terry Farrell on form here

This is for watching chariot races, said my friend the bass player, of these not-at-all overengineered seating thingummies

So much beauty

The great defenders of free speech on campus have gone missing. My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/free-…

C20 Society Phineas Harper Charles Holland Great to see this on here.......but important detail..... it was part of a 1996 art project concieved and curated by FAT in which 10 artists were commissioned to make interventions in London bus shelters. This actual (and most excellent) work is however by Beaconsfield

There’s the Mike Wallace interview with Frank Lloyd Wright in which MW smokes from beginning to end. Sponsored by Philip Morris I think. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5f3hRp…

“So, I have always wanted to be put into a medically induced coma.”

Architect: “Say no more”

One of the 'established practices' that Unknown Works 'saw off' was Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, who withdrew from the shortlist in protest when (after much questioning) Science Museum reluctantly told her that the gallery was to be sponsored by fossil-fuelers Adani 1/4

Congrats to the brilliant Laura Cumming - Critic of the Year at last night’s press awards, here with highly commended colleague Jay Rayner. Congrats also to shortlisted writers Rachel Cooke and Tim Adams. What a team of writers The Observer has! We are v proud 👏🙏🙌