They created the color guidelines for buildings in Visby, Gotland, Sweden. Possibly the most beautiful city in Scandinavia. gotland.se/download/18.77…

"#Kartanonkoski kuuluu vuodesta toiseen #Vantaa'n halutuimpiin asuinalueisiin." "Mistä Kartanonkosken suosio johtuu?" "Asukkaat kertovat, että talojen arkkitehtuuri ja värimaailma miellyttävät." Miksi ihmetellään selvää asiaa? #NewTraditionalArchitecture #NewUrbanism

#NewTraditionalArchitecture

New development should leave most locals thinking, "ah, that will make my neighbourhood better." Most doesn't. This does. Well done Austin Tunnell & colleagues.

Ankea ympäristö masentaa ja lannistaa. Milloin KUNTAPÄÄTTÄJÄT Suomessa heräävät sille? EHDOTON LUKUSUOSITUS! (Juttuun on päässyt 1 virhe: Tornitalot eivät ole ekologisia, vaan tutkitusti päinvastoin energiasyöppöjä.) is.fi/taloussanomat/…

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Notice how everyone naturally gravitates toward the beautiful environments and buildings? People vote with their feet, architectural beauty attracts.

Kaunista viikon alkua!

Viikon kohokohta, kiitos Helena Petäistö & Huomenta Suomi! ♥️

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Legoista voi rakentaa vaikka historiallisen Rooman kaupungin. Ei ole mitään syytä syyttää legoja nykyrakentamisen tylystä laatikkoudesta. #lego

Almost everything in this image was built in the last 30 years. Building beautiful cities is a choice, one that so many places have curiously shunned

In very exciting news, and we must hope it becomes reality, Quinlan Terry is working on a project in Oxford to replace the Clarendon Centre with multiple new buildings and a pedestrian-only square. More info here: oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-10…

Central Oxford is to gain a pleasant vernacular neighbourhood on the site of a particularly grim 1980s shopping mall. I have roughly outlined the awful stuff they are demolishing, to be replaced with new streets of limestone vernacular-classical buildings.

Fingers crossed that this becomes a trend & we start removing hideous single use ugly shopping centres & replacing them with real middles, mingling uses & attractive as the public, not the advisors, understand it. Something very similar, on which we advised, has also recently won

A perfect example of civil versus uncivil architecture.

Hooray for Finnish, with all its grammatical glory and its endless supply of double vowels! Today the flags fly for Finnish Language Day, which also commemorates Mikael Agricola, who is credited with creating the first written Finnish literature: finland.fi/arts-culture/c…

#BeautifulHelsinki