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· Dec 24
2024 art summary, or: a year of Tallum 🌲
Sigurd Lewerentz and Gunnar Asplund, this one’s for you — your brilliant collaboration, biblical architecture, and doomed (b)romance
#sigurdlewerentz #gunnarasplund #illustration #art #architecture #artsummary2024
Sigurd Lewerentz and Gunnar Asplund, this one’s for you — your brilliant collaboration, biblical architecture, and doomed (b)romance
#sigurdlewerentz #gunnarasplund #illustration #art #architecture #artsummary2024
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November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath!
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Georgian Bath? How about Brutalist Bath!
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
Sign the petition to save the fabulous little Church of the Good Shepherd in Batheaston (1966-67) from demolition, and allow the local community to buy it instead.
✍🏼 c.org/PdMGmFFhqZ
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
My diary reminded me that it’s Carl Nyrén’s birthday today, so I guess here’s his official introduction to my repertoire? 🍰🎡
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 PM
My diary reminded me that it’s Carl Nyrén’s birthday today, so I guess here’s his official introduction to my repertoire? 🍰🎡
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
Partly for #huevember2025; #carlnyrén #illustration #architecture
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Highpoint I, Highgate
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Highpoint I, Highgate
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
Venetian travels will resume shortly, but today is Anders Tengbom’s birthday! 🍰 To celebrate this green flag, you are hearing from my favourite details book in my library. Oddly contemporary, this:
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Venetian travels will resume shortly, but today is Anders Tengbom’s birthday! 🍰 To celebrate this green flag, you are hearing from my favourite details book in my library. Oddly contemporary, this:
There are obvious Venice buildings to post, but I’m starting in familiar territory with Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion (1958-62). Briefly I recalled Mies in Berlin, but Mies is vast and relentless. This is intimate, nobly poetic, yet ever so slightly aloof in its delicate light and shadows:
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 PM
There are obvious Venice buildings to post, but I’m starting in familiar territory with Sverre Fehn’s Nordic Pavilion (1958-62). Briefly I recalled Mies in Berlin, but Mies is vast and relentless. This is intimate, nobly poetic, yet ever so slightly aloof in its delicate light and shadows:
The only appropriate travel reading in Venice, I think:
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The only appropriate travel reading in Venice, I think:
While I am in Venice, can I offer you some ancient Palladio memes from my scribbles. Quattrocento architects were almost an expansion pack when I flirted with Old™️ buildings in Y1. This might come back
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 PM
While I am in Venice, can I offer you some ancient Palladio memes from my scribbles. Quattrocento architects were almost an expansion pack when I flirted with Old™️ buildings in Y1. This might come back
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
#andreapalladio and #sebastianoserlio + #michelangelo; #illustration #architecture
Going to Italy for a study trip is every architect’s canon event. It’s my turn. For the rest of this week I will finally be true to my header. Venice, a night promenade, doubly enjoyable after a delightful wine bar detour:
November 5, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Going to Italy for a study trip is every architect’s canon event. It’s my turn. For the rest of this week I will finally be true to my header. Venice, a night promenade, doubly enjoyable after a delightful wine bar detour:
Swedish update: I tried the official Swedex practice exam today and passed C1 reading AND listening with flying colours… 32/35 on both and the bar is 25/35 (which I thought quite lenient?)
1.5 years of commitment paying off! Allowed to be proud of myself for this I think 😭
1.5 years of commitment paying off! Allowed to be proud of myself for this I think 😭
finished duolingo Swedish (yay?) and reached ‘apps can’t save me now’, folkuniversitetet I don’t feel very B1 but thank you for the affirmation… now onto ‘trying to practice with my single digit IRL Swedish friends who I see maybe four times a year’. If Ralph could do it I can do it!!
November 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Swedish update: I tried the official Swedex practice exam today and passed C1 reading AND listening with flying colours… 32/35 on both and the bar is 25/35 (which I thought quite lenient?)
1.5 years of commitment paying off! Allowed to be proud of myself for this I think 😭
1.5 years of commitment paying off! Allowed to be proud of myself for this I think 😭
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Started a map of where all my 20th-century (more or less) Swedish architects are buried. I present to you dead architects in Sweden 🗺️🪦: www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/e...
Dead C20 Architects: Sweden - Google My Maps
Graves of 20th-century architects in Sweden. If you think someone should be on this map, please write to me at [artofcysun@gmail.com].
www.google.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Started a map of where all my 20th-century (more or less) Swedish architects are buried. I present to you dead architects in Sweden 🗺️🪦: www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/e...
Please tell me it’s not super niche to like Bengt Lindroos…? 😔 He was my Halloween fancy dress prompt for this year, in which I made an incredibly low effort, some might even say *lazy*, attempt at recreating this photo from his Markelius office years:
November 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Please tell me it’s not super niche to like Bengt Lindroos…? 😔 He was my Halloween fancy dress prompt for this year, in which I made an incredibly low effort, some might even say *lazy*, attempt at recreating this photo from his Markelius office years:
1940s Blandaren interests me because there were SO many architects. Observe, the iconic photo L➡️R:
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
1940s Blandaren interests me because there were SO many architects. Observe, the iconic photo L➡️R:
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿
Rolf Engströmer, Per Olof Olsson, Bengt Lindroos (standing), Harald Thafvelin, Bertil Thafvelin (standing), Mats Molander (cigarette), Hans Asplund (standing), Claes Knutsson, Henning Orlando 🪿
I finally identified the last architect in the Blandaren 1943 photo, so I can now offer you yet another architect brother pair: Harald and Bertil Thafvelin, Blandaren alias Tavve and Ångbry 🪿
#haraldthafvelin #bertilthafvelin #illustration #architecture
#haraldthafvelin #bertilthafvelin #illustration #architecture
October 31, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I finally identified the last architect in the Blandaren 1943 photo, so I can now offer you yet another architect brother pair: Harald and Bertil Thafvelin, Blandaren alias Tavve and Ångbry 🪿
#haraldthafvelin #bertilthafvelin #illustration #architecture
#haraldthafvelin #bertilthafvelin #illustration #architecture
Moots and friends, your best Venice buildings and/or food recs please? Other than Scarpa and the island cemetery. Biennale first time goer tips also welcome (mostly there for the buildings). Thank you! 😘
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Moots and friends, your best Venice buildings and/or food recs please? Other than Scarpa and the island cemetery. Biennale first time goer tips also welcome (mostly there for the buildings). Thank you! 😘
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The Jam released The Modern World on this day in 1977
youtu.be/kGbwb6SrrZs
youtu.be/kGbwb6SrrZs
The Jam - The Modern World (TOTP 3rd November 1977).
YouTube video by Spit Records
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The Jam released The Modern World on this day in 1977
youtu.be/kGbwb6SrrZs
youtu.be/kGbwb6SrrZs
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Le Corbusier: let us return to the platonic volumes, cubes, cylinders, what have you
Asplund: [builds Stockholm Public Library]
Le Corbusier: not like that
Asplund: [builds Stockholm Public Library]
Le Corbusier: not like that
October 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Le Corbusier: let us return to the platonic volumes, cubes, cylinders, what have you
Asplund: [builds Stockholm Public Library]
Le Corbusier: not like that
Asplund: [builds Stockholm Public Library]
Le Corbusier: not like that
Binging operas again to get through this deadline week, so a throwback to spring when I went to my first in-person opera in Malmö and saw La Bohème at the Lewerentz, Lallerstedt and Helldén opera house/ex-stadsteater (1944):
October 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Binging operas again to get through this deadline week, so a throwback to spring when I went to my first in-person opera in Malmö and saw La Bohème at the Lewerentz, Lallerstedt and Helldén opera house/ex-stadsteater (1944):
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Piles of unused tickets for fantastic concerts that came up for auction three years ago. Apparently they were found in a closed-up space when the Free Trade Hall was transformed onto a hotel
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Piles of unused tickets for fantastic concerts that came up for auction three years ago. Apparently they were found in a closed-up space when the Free Trade Hall was transformed onto a hotel
Basildon New Town is sadly not named after Basil Spence who worked on it (😞) but I think this is a myth worth starting
October 27, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Basildon New Town is sadly not named after Basil Spence who worked on it (😞) but I think this is a myth worth starting
Bengt Lindroos berättar: Hammarbytornet ✍️
Comic time! 1/12 🧵
#illustration #architecture #bengtlindroos
Comic time! 1/12 🧵
#illustration #architecture #bengtlindroos
October 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Bengt Lindroos berättar: Hammarbytornet ✍️
Comic time! 1/12 🧵
#illustration #architecture #bengtlindroos
Comic time! 1/12 🧵
#illustration #architecture #bengtlindroos
October 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
No why did they cancel Stockholm Design Week AND Southern Sweden Design Days 2026… the ONE year I wanted to (and can) go to both!! Sobbing crying rolling on the floor this cannot be real 😭😭😭
October 22, 2025 at 3:24 PM
No why did they cancel Stockholm Design Week AND Southern Sweden Design Days 2026… the ONE year I wanted to (and can) go to both!! Sobbing crying rolling on the floor this cannot be real 😭😭😭
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As a follow-up, episode 2 of the series somehow doesn’t exist but episode 3 (Att se in i framtiden - looking into the future) has Leif Reinius of Backström & Reinius talking about their work, here Vällingby:
October 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
As a follow-up, episode 2 of the series somehow doesn’t exist but episode 3 (Att se in i framtiden - looking into the future) has Leif Reinius of Backström & Reinius talking about their work, here Vällingby: