Lisa Rigg FRSA
@lisarigg.bsky.social
Painter & Building Fancier ❤🔥 I love Elizabethan bits, industrial bobs, art, Modernism, Iceland & mountains, of course 🎨 Researching the architecture of art schools & helping to conserve London’s historic buildings 🕊⛺️ MSt in Building History (Cantab)
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Lisa Rigg FRSA
@lisarigg.bsky.social
· Jan 7
To answer a friend’s question. Yes, I am an orophile: a person who finds peace & serenity, & connects with themselves & others more deeply in mountainous places. Ridge walker, mountain painter & lover of rocky places
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Who is this annoying man and why can't he leave us alone? Flora and Venus trying to ignore Mars, painted in 1550 by Paris Bordone. Today was his day.
May 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Who is this annoying man and why can't he leave us alone? Flora and Venus trying to ignore Mars, painted in 1550 by Paris Bordone. Today was his day.
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Woman with a veil, 1512. Perfect beauty as defined by the incomparable Raphael, whose day has been today.
April 7, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Woman with a veil, 1512. Perfect beauty as defined by the incomparable Raphael, whose day has been today.
Wonderful news — grant funding historicengland.org.uk/advice/grant...
Heritage at Risk Capital Fund | Historic England
Find out about this 1-year £15 million grant scheme for historic sites at risk.
historicengland.org.uk
April 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Wonderful news — grant funding historicengland.org.uk/advice/grant...
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'For some of London’s indebted local councils, repurposing public conveniences as bars, brunch spots & other commercial uses brings in much-needed income & restores life to old buildings.' > but some wouid (understandably) prefer pennies to be spent just restoring them. www.ft.com/content/1708...
Eating avocado toast in London’s old urinals
Indebted local councils want to turn even more of the capital’s WCs into bars, cafés and shops
www.ft.com
March 17, 2025 at 10:06 PM
'For some of London’s indebted local councils, repurposing public conveniences as bars, brunch spots & other commercial uses brings in much-needed income & restores life to old buildings.' > but some wouid (understandably) prefer pennies to be spent just restoring them. www.ft.com/content/1708...
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Lisa Nandy announces £270m fund for UK’s ‘crumbling’ cultural infrastructure
Lisa Nandy announces £270m fund for UK’s ‘crumbling’ cultural infrastructure
Arts Everywhere Fund will improve cultural offerings in communities and on the curriculum
* UK politics live – latest updates
Culture has been “erased” from communities and curriculums, according to the culture secretary, Lisa Nandy who vowed to…
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Lisa Nandy announces £270m fund for UK’s ‘crumbling’ cultural infrastructure
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St Pancras and Channel tunnel plan rail routes to Germany and Switzerland
St Pancras and Channel tunnel plan rail routes to Germany and Switzerland
Partnership comes as London station looks at ways to almost triple passenger numbers
London’s St Pancras railway station and the Channel tunnel operator have agreed to work together to open up more trains from Britain to France, and routes to Germany and…
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 11:45 AM
St Pancras and Channel tunnel plan rail routes to Germany and Switzerland
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As cities around the world demolish their mid-20th Century housing blocks, some places are showing how there is another way!
Here’s a 1957 housing block in Switzerland where new solar balconies have been added to increase space for residents and reduce energy bills 🧵
Here’s a 1957 housing block in Switzerland where new solar balconies have been added to increase space for residents and reduce energy bills 🧵
February 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
As cities around the world demolish their mid-20th Century housing blocks, some places are showing how there is another way!
Here’s a 1957 housing block in Switzerland where new solar balconies have been added to increase space for residents and reduce energy bills 🧵
Here’s a 1957 housing block in Switzerland where new solar balconies have been added to increase space for residents and reduce energy bills 🧵
These buildings deserve better recognition in both supporting the creation of world-renowned fine art, fashion, textiles, photography, ceramics, music, film & theatre; & as an expression of post-war optimism for art being a healing & restorative force for good ❤️🩹@campaignforthearts.org
⚠️Wolverhampton School of Art is under threat!
Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University.
C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it.
✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve...
Designed 1966-70, the nine-storey block has been earmarked for potential demolition by Wolverhampton University.
C20 has submitted a listing application, and local campaigners have started a petition to save it.
✍🏼Sign here: change.org/p/save-wolve...
February 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
These buildings deserve better recognition in both supporting the creation of world-renowned fine art, fashion, textiles, photography, ceramics, music, film & theatre; & as an expression of post-war optimism for art being a healing & restorative force for good ❤️🩹@campaignforthearts.org
Known by former students as the ‘milk crate’ this College of Art building in Wolverhampton is threatened with demolition. It is only 1 of 10 that survive from 22 purpose-built post-war colleges in England & Wales. Please sign & share. Worthy of listing www.change.org/p/save-wolve...
Sign the Petition
Save Wolverhampton school of art building from demolition
www.change.org
February 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Known by former students as the ‘milk crate’ this College of Art building in Wolverhampton is threatened with demolition. It is only 1 of 10 that survive from 22 purpose-built post-war colleges in England & Wales. Please sign & share. Worthy of listing www.change.org/p/save-wolve...
This was a beautiful talk in a time when ‘beauty’ is being taken off the curriculum in favour of a ‘Growth Ideology’ that is rapacious in its denial of our built heritage, ecology & anima 🦇
Hello––I'll be speaking at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Trafalgar Square tonight, about language & nature, walking, rivers, hope & protest.
6.30-7.30pm.
There's also a live-stream.
Part of the new 'Conversation' series there.
Join us if you’re so minded!
www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/the...
6.30-7.30pm.
There's also a live-stream.
Part of the new 'Conversation' series there.
Join us if you’re so minded!
www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/calendar/the...
The Conversation: Robert Macfarlane - St Martin-in-the-Fields
A Direction of Travel The Conversation is a series of weekly events talking about conflict and empathy, inequality and power, climate crisis and wonder through storytelling and action. The first half ...
www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org
January 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
This was a beautiful talk in a time when ‘beauty’ is being taken off the curriculum in favour of a ‘Growth Ideology’ that is rapacious in its denial of our built heritage, ecology & anima 🦇
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Those in the UK & beyond watching Trump’s murderous freeze on federal funding streams, please go follow @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for information, resistance, organisation, hope & clarity on this and other matters.
Trump doesn't care if the economy crashes and communities suffer. His goal is to force you and your family to accept a lower standard of living while he and his friends get richer. Cutting support for law enforcement, schools, small businesses and firefighters is chaos by design.
President Trump’s order freezing trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans sent officials at schools, hospitals, nonprofit organizations and many others into a frantic scramble to understand the extent of the directive. Here's what to know.
January 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Those in the UK & beyond watching Trump’s murderous freeze on federal funding streams, please go follow @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for information, resistance, organisation, hope & clarity on this and other matters.
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Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excellent. A rarity indeed ❤️
NEWS: C20 is leading efforts to save Bath Fire Station from proposed demolition.
The 1930s classical Art Deco building was a rare pre-war project by a female architect, and went on to play a crucial role in protecting the city during the Baedeker Blitz of 1942.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-lea...
The 1930s classical Art Deco building was a rare pre-war project by a female architect, and went on to play a crucial role in protecting the city during the Baedeker Blitz of 1942.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-lea...
January 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Excellent. A rarity indeed ❤️
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Stay strong. For us, this is more than just a job-it’s a calling. Together, we will stand to protect our parks, environment, and wildlife. Four years… we remain hopeful that the attack on our public lands will be less brutal this time.
January 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Journalists are mostly hypocrites. They think they’re above the law & often intrude into people’s lives with no care for the impact. Great outcome today
1300 cases, more than £1bn paid out, a decade of litigation and finally The Sun and NGN finally admit to illegal activities after years of denial. What a journey, what a victory for Prince Harry and Lord Watson.
Our CEO, Nathan Sparkes, breaks down the historic settlement outside Court on BBC.
Our CEO, Nathan Sparkes, breaks down the historic settlement outside Court on BBC.
January 22, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Journalists are mostly hypocrites. They think they’re above the law & often intrude into people’s lives with no care for the impact. Great outcome today
Is there a way to apply a Trump/Musk filter on my life?
January 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Is there a way to apply a Trump/Musk filter on my life?
I had a lovely evening catching up with members of the Hackney Society who’d supported me when I was leading the organisation well over 13 years ago now. I’m so glad to see that this pioneering civic & amenity society is still going strong
Thanks to the Mildmay Club for a wonderful evening exploring this rare example of a purpose-built working men’s club. Grade II listed with a ‘dignified Queen Anne style frontage & largely intact plan form’ it includes an impressive snooker hall with a bold decorative scheme from the 1960s/70s
January 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I had a lovely evening catching up with members of the Hackney Society who’d supported me when I was leading the organisation well over 13 years ago now. I’m so glad to see that this pioneering civic & amenity society is still going strong
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be starting a new job. In February 2025, I will be joining Historic England — championing historic places and supporting communities to find solutions for ‘at risk’ sites. Both trains and Pevsner’s architectural guides are going to be very useful to me 💒
January 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m delighted to announce that I’ll be starting a new job. In February 2025, I will be joining Historic England — championing historic places and supporting communities to find solutions for ‘at risk’ sites. Both trains and Pevsner’s architectural guides are going to be very useful to me 💒
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Young man amongst the roses: the epitome of Elizabethan melancholic romance. By the great miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard.
January 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Young man amongst the roses: the epitome of Elizabethan melancholic romance. By the great miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard.
To answer a friend’s question. Yes, I am an orophile: a person who finds peace & serenity, & connects with themselves & others more deeply in mountainous places. Ridge walker, mountain painter & lover of rocky places
January 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
To answer a friend’s question. Yes, I am an orophile: a person who finds peace & serenity, & connects with themselves & others more deeply in mountainous places. Ridge walker, mountain painter & lover of rocky places
Rossend Castle, Fife
January 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Rossend Castle, Fife
Excellent. Another sanctimonious plaster saint who thinks they’re in touch with god. Vanity at its worse
Children’s charity rejects archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas donation
Children’s charity rejects archbishop of Canterbury’s Christmas donation
Children’s Society says accepting donation from Justin Welby would be inconsistent with its principles and values
A children’s charity has rejected a Christmas donation from the archbishop of Canterbury, who resigned over the Church of England’s failures…
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2024 at 5:34 PM
Excellent. Another sanctimonious plaster saint who thinks they’re in touch with god. Vanity at its worse