A new issue of 'The Journal of Public Space', Vol. 7 n. 1 (2022), on 'Public Space and Placemaking in African Cities' is finally on line! Full issue available here journalpublicspace.org/index.php/jps/… in collaboration with African Public Spaces City Space Architecture UN-Habitat #Africa #publicspace

Mmm. Maybe I too need to diversify into snacks …?

Peter Eisenman...
‘House II’...1975
#architecture #arquitectura #PeterEisenman #Eisenman

Aleksandr #Vesnin ...
Model for G.K. Chesterton’s ’Man Who Was Thursday’...1924
#architecture #arquitectura #ARCHITECTURALMODEL #model #maqueta

Interesting and timely exhibition at Manchester Libraries for the upcoming 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising organised by PLinManchester🇵🇱

Two weeks on and the Town Hall Extension fencing doesn’t seem to be working as a deterrent

MEET THE JUDGES 3/4
Joining the judging panel this year is architect/educator, Simon Chadwick. A practicing architect since 2000, Simon is currently Dep. Head of School at The University of Sheffield School of Architecture Sheffield School of Architecture and involved in SheffieldCivicTrust Welcome Simon!

#OnThisDay 1840 Pyotr Ilyich #Tchaikovsky Russian  #composer , born in Votkinsk, Russia

#OnThisDay 1833 Johannes #Brahms German  #composer  and  #conductor , born in Hamburg, German Confederation

Not a bad spot for a Bank Holiday lunch

Spencer Gore painted this work in 1911 from the third floor of Walter Sickert’s painting school, Rowlandson House, and shows the junction of Hampstead Road and Rutland Street in Camden in London; the outbreak of WW1 forced the school's closure.

A year after this work, Gore…

Artillery Memorial, Hyde Park Corner. My grandfather, who was a medic in the war, disliked it intensely. But I can’t help but admire it. The stocky, muscular figures, weighed down by gear, Shells in the pockets, wet capes, heavy boots. Charles Sargent Jagger. 1925.

No National Gallery painting on tour to #manchester then. I wonder why?

Very enjoyable visit to AttinghamParkNT today - best staircase in Britain?

Venturi learning from Rome in nyc: “I remember vividly on one of my first trips to New York City—maybe I was 10 years old—my father’s impulsively instructing the cab driver to pull over and wait as we approached the old Penn station on Seventh Avenue, and then conducting me down…

Finally made it to the new Burrell Collection in Glasgow. Wow, what a triumph of museum renovation and curation. >

Michele Busiri Vici 1894-1981
Beach house in Sardinia...
#architecture #arquitectura #BusiriVici
it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_B…

well done peckham…this week the rwanda coaches next week berkeley homes

as a subscriber of the AR over the last 12 years I've come to the conclusion there seems to be vast amounts of money to make in toilet cubicles.

Job alert!
Our members SAVEBritainsHeritage are looking for a Conservation Officer to join their team.

If you have an enthusiasm for architecture and a passion to help save threatened buildings then this is for you.

heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk/jobs/

#HeritageJobs #ConservationOfficer