These Düsseldorf homes are new. No rule of economics or physics prevents us creating beautiful places How exquisitely the architect, Sebastian Treese, varies the pattern: colour, window shape, the presence (or not) of a bay or use of shutters all alternate like rhyming couplets

Newly built in Budapest Skilled craftsmen have recreated the Royal Guard House which was completely demolished during the Communist era. It can be done - we can build beautiful architecture

There isn't anyone doing better work interviewing the best urbanists and architects alive today than @_Aesthetic_City podcast. Be sure to listen to an amazing interview with the legendary Leon Krier, it doesn't disappoint! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/32-…

New beautiful buildings under construction in Budapest, Hungary

Sir Roger Scruton - ART TODAY youtu.be/qeECg8lIEC4?si… via YouTube

In Amsterdam, they understand the importance of warm street lighting. According to the city’s “Policy framework for lighting,” lights must be 2700-3000 Kelvin “because it largely determines the seer’s experience of public space.” openresearch.amsterdam/image/2020/6/3…

Happy birthday to the person who designed this corner at Hotel Alfred Sommier, Paris. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Mi…

The pinnacle of transit

Ugliness is a choice. This was completed in 2018 in Yale by the brilliant Robert Stern 📸 Peter Aaron / OTTO

New podcast with the great Pablo Funes, director of education at the Classic Planning Institute and architect at Katherine Pooley Studio - after a 12 year period at Stanhope Gate: open.spotify.com/episode/2kVr6G…

Estación de metro en Rusia. Claramente, algo creen ellos que nosotros en México no.

It's crazy how wasteful we are of land in London when the city is 100,000s of homes short. This is a Sainsbury's supermarket in Zone 2: 2.5 hectare site. I've shown it here overlaid with a whole neighbourhood in Dubrovnik. Could fit 1000 homes. Instead it's mostly surface parking

Every act of beauty is a revolt against the modern world.