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"Keep building towers, maybe the next one will magically fix our city!"
Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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"According to the study, most people were less comfortable with the modern buildings, and it was the traditional style that was to a greater extent preferred."
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Cheltondale was demolished in 1982. This monstrosity of a hospital wing replaced it. 🤢
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This is a MUST SEE video!
A story of a town that did the impossible. What an inspiration to all towns struggling with devastating ugliness and the social problems following.
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New video dropping today! All about how to transform a town from a decaying blocky hellscape into a beautiful, lush, green oasis.
A case study about #LePlessisRobinson
6:00 ET / 12:00 CET / 11:00 GMT sharp!
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I haven't really seen many posts in the architectural revival circles about what's happening with Buda Castle and I think it's a shame. In this first image you can see what Buda Castle looked like in the 19th century in Neoclassical Baroque style. It was bombed in WW2 ./01
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Another podcast episode launched with the excellent Professor Brandon Ro - brandonro.com
Check it out on all major podcast platforms!
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New video dropping today! All about how to transform a town from a decaying blocky hellscape into a beautiful, lush, green oasis.
A case study about #LePlessisRobinson
6:00 ET / 12:00 CET / 11:00 GMT sharp!
(Subscribing is warmly welcomed! ☺️)
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Fantastic results from this design competition. Do check it out - some great proposals!
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Building towers doesn't guarantee your city will be more attractive.
Life in the city happens at eye level. The skyline is fun to see from afar, but if your urban fabric is so coarse-grained and dominated by blank walls & dark, windy alleys, you're losing as a city.
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A glass facade at street level is not 'transparant' or 'inviting'.
It's cold, uninviting and most of the time, everything but transparant.
This mistake keeps being made. These examples are brand new. Lethal to a city like Rotterdam that tries to make its centre more attractive
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In truly beautiful cities, even the hidden corners have charm.
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Applications for the 2023 "Let's Build a Beautiful City" Summer School are open! Hooray! For more details see the link below
intbaunl.org/summerschool
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Last year’s summer school in Utrecht was a great success - so Let’s Build a Beautiful City will return this year!
Teaching traditional architecture and urbanism as most universities won’t.
Applications are open - visit beautifulcity.nl for more info!
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Event coming up in Amsterdam! Catesby Leigh is giving a talk about civic architecture and the question if classical architecture is more appropriate.
I will be joining the discussion afterwards.
Tickets available here:
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Terraced homes on one of Bath's steep streets under an evening sky
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The Baths in Bath.
Just glorious
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Perhaps one of my more radical views:
Build factories so they will be beautiful enough to turn into luxury apartments 100 years from now.
If we really want to save resources, we need to make stuff that is worth reusing.
Or: make factories that are easily dismantleable
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The Circus deserves some love too:
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More Royal Crescent
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Some more beautiful craftsmanship in CDMX, Mexico
Could use some love...
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“New traditional architecture is so kitsch!’
The alternative:
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Ornament in CDMX
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I hate it when discussions become overly political because I believe in end results that bring most beauty and wellbeing for all.
But to achieve this, there must be political will and thus political discussion. Ideally to achieve bipartisan support!
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Our car-dependent status quo is the result of political choices that have steered decades of financial-, spatial- and design decisions.
It is time to repoliticize these decisions that shape our public spaces.
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Felt like posting more of Bath. Got so many pearls I didn't share yet.
This seems like a very fine street to live. Beautiful, good density, a charming park, magnificent tree. Sidewalks could be a bit wider.
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What happened to the art of building crescents?
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Interesting way of breaking up a mass in Mexico City.
A huge block, but still doesn't feel too massive.
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Create lively corners. Or at least, corners that could house a shop, café or other business.
It will have a great positive impact on its surroundings.
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FAIRYTALE ARCHITECTURE
Embrace it, don't be a Big Bad Wolf.
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Good news: So they stopped this monstrosity from getting built in central Amsterdam... so far.
Now it's time for a respectful design that fits better within the city's beautiful historical fabric.
It's not that hard!
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De VVAB heeft het kort geding over de verbouwing van het Amsterdam Museum gewonnen. De rechter heeft de sloop- en bouwwerkzaamheden opgeschort tot de uitspraak in de hoofdprocedure. amsterdamsebinnenstad.nl/nieuws/index.h
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Great & a bit sad thread
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Why did the UK destroy and replace so many of its old Victorian buildings?
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"Have you ever heard of ... science or research be used to show that it's a good idea to build more ugliness, a good idea to build more expensive, a good idea to build more disposable buildings?"
on the podcast
anchor.fm/the-aesthetic-
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Just applying correct urban form and planting street trees is not enough.
Diversity of units, a healthy function mix, and most of all BEAUTY are key to create truly successful places
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Two corners in Brussels.
Which one enriches the city for centuries to come?
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Perhaps a bit too dense to my taste, also a bit 'out of place' in a Dutch city, but nevertheless this project (Little C) does a lot of things right.
It delivers density in an attractive way, has plenty of attractive details and cozy (albeit dark) public spaces.
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...because the world trends towards sterile blandness
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EMBRACE DETAILS & ORNAMENT
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...because otherwise, there might not be much left soon.
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