Something I hadn't really considered previously, but this visit to Tokyo drove home for me, is how sidewalks are largely unnecessary on streets that are otherwise designed for slow vehicle speeds. Woonerfs also do this, but at dramatically higher cost.

What’s something all British children are taught?

I’ll go first:

Swans can and will break your arm.

Excessive A/C use is tasteless.

I understand cooling a bedroom so you can sleep.

But having the entire house refrigerated all summer isn't aesthetic, or even pleasurable.

You need to be enjoying that sleepy lassitude, that slight enervation.

Open a window. Have a Julep.

This is a house that I designed for Habitat for Humanity. It was built in the Willow Bend section of Fayetteville's Walker Park Neighborhood. I think that it turned out pretty well. #affordablehousing

A small mansion block sits harmoniously within a street of homes and terraces in Highgate. There’s no reason small, beautiful blocks like this one couldn’t sprout across suburban London, adding 10,000’s of much needed homes in a wave of the gentlest gentle density.

no sentence has ever fayettevilled harder

A rendering error in reality.

Debate in Norway:
'Hoff-Andersen said he's sick of the expression 'our time.' 'Why is our time better than previous times? We have been given an architecture of plastic sheets and foam. It is a Happy Meal architecture, whereas previously people built sustainably and permanently.'

Ordered a linen suit from J Crew. Upon arrival it was clearly a cotton suit with a bit of linen blended in. I guess I'll wear it working around the yard this summer. Be careful out there gentlemen; some things on the Internet are not as they seem.

Nice to see this has survived since the early 1900s

Small development will only happen if it can be done by rights.

Otherwise, it's a distraction and will never have the focus of those that are needed to make it happen.

Bruno Taut’s colourful garden city housing at Falkenberg, Berlin (from 1912)

The home of Robert E. Smith, owner of Au Vieux Paris Antiques of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. More here.

Photography Rush Jagoe

It kills me when people critique walkable, human-scale places as 'built for the rich'

They're not inherently expensive, they're just expensive today because we don't build enough of them!

In fact they're inherently more efficient in their resource use, which makes them cheaper

FoodPorn: The Original Hellenism and Barbecue: two great tastes that go great together:)

I completely fell in love with this simple but elegant substation at 2220 W. Warren near where we stayed in Detroit

This is the answer.

Erik Bootsma🌸🇳🇱 Robert Sharp Terracotta predates the Romans. It was used in ancient 🇬🇷 and I definitely don’t have a problem with it.

Classical Curve and an Art Deco Spike against a lovely blue sky in Chicago.

Adler and Sullivan cornice detail from Chicago Art Institute.