New regeneration near Paris: helping the virtuous circle of place spin after 80 years of failed traffic-modernism ✅Gentle Density ✅Popular ✅Beautiful ✅Street trees ✅Equal quantum of social housing ✅Supports trams, bikes, walking ✅Higher land values ✅Homes, shops, offices

Brutalism is genuinely despised by the people in public opinion polls. It's not even partisan, everyone agrees. Government buildings are built with taxpayer dollars and should probably reflect the public's aesthetic sensibilities.

In a retail park in central Italy I once saw a grey-box-warehouse casino with a completely fake neoclassical façade. Despite the sculptures and pilasters it felt more depressing than if they just left the front bare and grey

After Modernists destroyed traditional architectural education, kitsch is the best option available on the market. What are you doing as an urbanist to rebuild architecture?

"Thanks to mass immigration, whites will be a minority in America" - Clinton, 1998 Listen to the crowd's reaction

The New York Times said that this is the building that showed that brutalism could be "playful." 'This may be true, but only in the sense that the cat tormenting a mouse, or the torturer doing “eeny-meeny” to determine which testicle to zap first, is being “playful.”'....

🇩🇪 INSPIRED: Frankfurt in Germany is strangely not really on the trad map despite its wealth and historical reconstructions. Projects are more modest and mediocre compared to Düsseldorf or Munich.🧵

I profoundly hate the modern custom of changing the names of streets in old towns. Those were an organic result of the town's history, they respected its morphology and function, were peculiar and easily memorable. These are the artificial attempt to impose on the people the

If there is hope, it lies in the proles...

Phenomenal example of New Urbanism done right

We’ve started restoring heritage street signs across the borough, some more than 150 years old. This is part of our work to renew 1,200 signs and protect local character. Read more or request a restoration ➡️wandsworth.gov.uk/news/news-augu…

I see a lot of houses like this being built in Charlotte NC. They seem to be generally well proportioned, decent window sizes and visually interesting, while not being unnecessarily complex. McMansions are upping their game and I love to see it… I guess?

Woolton hall on fire 👎🏽

Only 9 samples of ancient DNA from the entire Australian continent (and most less than 2000 years old) If Australia's 40,000 year-old fossil record hadn't been destroyed this map would look quite different

These three storey weavers cottages near Huddersfield are a typical example of a building designed for a specific purpose. The ground floor housed the kitchen and washing area, with the first floor usually being used for

One of Leeds' newest triangle buildings is being unsheathed. 2020s urban renewal looks so much better than 90s and 00s urban renewal. Looking forward to seeing what they do with the ground floor units.

Stucco removal began in some parts of Germany over 100 years ago because ornamental stucco was considered "fake" Today, stucco is being removed to meet environmental requirements

At the least, Japan should have a policy of dispersal to spread the new arrivals all over the country instead of concentrating them all in one future no-go ghetto. Hasn't anyone learnt from Sweden and France?

POV: You’re an urban planner in the 60s and you’re presented with two proposals for the local town centre. Were they actually insane?