Gorgeous new affordable homes under construction near Paris. Ugliness is a choice.

The housing crisis in numbers. (From The Sunday Times today: thetimes.com/life-style/pro…)

Five reasons that Hugh Graham found to be cheerful about planning and property thanks to talking to our MD David Milner ..... link.thetimes.co.uk/view/61951beae…

Following Louise Haigh & Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan’s excellent decision on Cockfosters car park, here’s jonn elledge to explain how it became the poster child for damaging Nimbyism, and make some dick jokes capx.co/nimby-watch-co…

Wise man. Much of our civic architecture is risible & ugly.

Why does architectural education need to change & how. Another excellent video from The Aesthetic City (Though probably fair to say that traditional urbanism if not architecture increasingly IS being taught)

📷 Piet Schreuders. Le peintre de Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre 1939. Paris Quartier Latin 5e

Good buildings and places should indeed cheer people up. Why not?

At a glance this looks like the sort of town building we need to see much more of across the country. Proper town centre, new station, linked bus routes and walking/cycling and loads of new homes of course!

Avant / Après la nouvelle piste bidirectionnelle Boulevard Murat dans le 16ème arrondissement de Paris. Le stationnement automobile est resté, la place a été obtenue en passant de deux fois deux voies de circulation générale à deux fois une voie.

Завдяки одному з наших щедрих донорів ми працюємо над створенням бачення відновлення України. Дехто вже думає про це або працює над проектами реконструкції. Використовуючи інструмент мапування Create Communities...

Create streets, homes & growth not more of this nonsense. Opinions dressed up as research.

James Gibbs’s Cambridge Senate House in the evening crepuscule which gifts to the Portland stone (rare in Cambridge) a rich honey hue. It’s a glorious building, with its 3 window designs & luxuriantly Corinthian pilasters simultaneously controlled & Palladian,austere & flamboyant

King’s Parade, Cambridge. One of England’s great streets. At its peak it’s six storeys. Nobody minds.

Civic architecture matters

We need this in London to halt the rash of Lime rendering our pavements impassable

Every good place needs one of these … via Positive Side of 𝕏

Good buildings recycle

Good buildings recycle