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Jun 23, 2022

Now that I've dotted my Ts and crossed my eyes (or something like that), I'm delighted to share that my book will be published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. Provisionally entitled MALAYAN CLASSICISM: FROM THE ARCHITECTURE OF EMPIRE TO ASIAN VERNACULAR, it'll be out late 2023.

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Dangerous time to be a beer in Changi airport when a certain architectural historian has two and a bit hours to kill before his flight

Louis Anthony Loftus

@louisafloftus

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You would not believe how much of Paris used to be parking lots

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Emmanuel

@EmmanuelSPV

Les voitures garées devant Notre-Dame dans les années 50, elle-même frôlée par la circulation automobile.

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Getting to spend my last night back in Southeast Asia during Thaipusam and Chap Goh Mei is such a good reminder of how lucky I am to have grown up in this very special part of the world

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Covid has meant spending the longest time away from Malaysia and Singapore in my life thus far. It’s been so good to balik kampung & reconnect with people and places I love. And it’s been wonderful to show my partner around the cities that have shaped me, sharing food & festivals

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Could Penang lose another heritage building to developers? Spotlight on former Rex Cinema building...

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Could Penang lose another heritage building to developers? Spotlight on former Rex Cinema building with Art Deco architecture

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GEORGE TOWN, Feb 4 — The Penang Heritage Council is hoping to preserve the Art Deco architectural style of the former Rex Cinema on Burmah Road before the city loses the...

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Seemed appropriate to wrap up my trip in the building that features heavily in the final chapter of my book.

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The perfect place to spend my last day in Singapore imho

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Me whenever I see a Comfort Delgro taxi here: I love your song video games

I did not appreciate how much La Niña makes for unseasonably wet weather here this time of year, but the gentle rain today has been so nice

Kerstin Thompson

@ThompsonKerstin

The necessary behind of the fancy front #beautifulplumbing #thewindsor

Lovely views from up on Ann Siang Hill

National Archives of Australia

@naagovau

Melbourne artist Charles Bush painting the Melbourne skyline from the banks of the Yarra River, 1958. Love our images? Start exploring and find hidden gems from Australia’s past: bit.ly/3zOLymA NAA: A12111, 1/1958/6/5

Black and white photograph of an artist painting a city skyline on the banks of a river, 1958.

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Getting very wet while looking at buildings: the Soon-Tzu Speechley story.

Edward W.

@edwardW2

The birthday of the Jade Emperor, as celebrated in Malaysia: With (very good) English subtitles youtube.com/watch?v=0HeMBC

@EPButler

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Erin L. Thompson

@artcrimeprof

I've spent months trying to figure out how the famed 6th c. BCE kouros ("youth") sculpture got to the Metropolitan Museum (any many Art History 101 textbooks), and I think I figured it out. A thread:

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BERNAMA

@bernamadotcom

#GeorgeTown: Perarakan pedati perak sejauh 10 kilometer bermula dari Kuil Kovil Veedu di Lebuh Penang ke Kuil Sri Arulmigu Balathandayuthabani di Jalan Kebun Bunga hari ini.

BERNAMA

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#GeorgeTown: Pergerakan pedati emas dari Kuil Maha Mariaaman ke Kuil Arulmigu Balathandayuthapani sempena sambutan Thaipusam hari ini. Penganut beragama Hindu bakal menyambut perayaan Thaipusam esok. 📸 Ariff Sarbri | BERNAMA

I regret to inform you all that we’ve ended up on N*il Road

I’ve missed my Singapore mates 🇸🇬

Doing my bit for ASEAN

It gets better

Je regrette to inform you all I’ve found my favourite intersection in the Orchard Road Kinokuniya

Very lucky to live as a migrant in A*stralia but it’s nice to come back to a part of the world where your blood runs back 400 years

I’ve missed Nanyang so much

The tropics are so good.

Old terraces adjacent to one of Asia’s main financial centres, you love to see it

I love how this massive city finds ways to make room for the old within the new

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Made a new friend at the hawker centre

Feb 2

The Singapore MRT announcement to ‘berhati-hati di ruang platform’ is my ASMR

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Feb 2

I’ve missed the tropics

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Briony Neilson

@Briony_Neilson

Feb 2

Substation and water tower in Brussels, March 2021 (photo by François Lichtlé)

Feb 1

Tattooed bartender recommending places where I can get inked in Kallang, I’ve missed this city so much 🥰

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At a kopitiam in Singapore sinking lao hor while the radio blasts Cher at me, it’s like the pandemic never happened 🥰

Erin Cook

@dmkmtoday

Feb 1

Tim Winton's next novel is about a coastal youth spending his summer in the WA regions with his grizzly granddad as he confronts questions about masculinity and becoming a man. One day, he comes across a tiny radioactive pellet.

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MEDIA STATEMENT – REX CINEMA, PENANG

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Badan Warisan’s statement on the proposed demolition of the Rex Cinema in Penang

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MEDIA STATEMENT – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 27 January 2023 Badan Warisan Malaysia deplores Penang Island City Hall’s (MBPP) approval to instruct the demolition of the Rex Cinema at Jalan Burma in Geor…