Adrian Miles
@adrianmilesarch.bsky.social
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Adrian Miles
@adrianmilesarch.bsky.social
· Jan 16
Great to see architecture/built environment community more active here now! Let's see if anyone bites on this question: does Labour really believe that New Towns will have an impact on their housing targets within the next 4.5yrs given time to planning and typical build-out rates? If yes why?
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Happy Birthday Neil Young!
@michaelstipe.bsky.social is among the 80 artists who have picked & submitted a favorite Neil Young song in Stereogum's tribute to Neil on his 80th birthday, today. Scroll through and read Michael’s pick and the story that accompanies it...
stereogum.com/2476602/80-a...
@michaelstipe.bsky.social is among the 80 artists who have picked & submitted a favorite Neil Young song in Stereogum's tribute to Neil on his 80th birthday, today. Scroll through and read Michael’s pick and the story that accompanies it...
stereogum.com/2476602/80-a...
80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Neil Young Song
Happy 80th birthday, Neil Young!
stereogum.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Happy Birthday Neil Young!
@michaelstipe.bsky.social is among the 80 artists who have picked & submitted a favorite Neil Young song in Stereogum's tribute to Neil on his 80th birthday, today. Scroll through and read Michael’s pick and the story that accompanies it...
stereogum.com/2476602/80-a...
@michaelstipe.bsky.social is among the 80 artists who have picked & submitted a favorite Neil Young song in Stereogum's tribute to Neil on his 80th birthday, today. Scroll through and read Michael’s pick and the story that accompanies it...
stereogum.com/2476602/80-a...
This country needs a new understanding of what rural development should be. Sustainable homes and amenities at the density of Italian hill towns 4 storeys minimum going down to terraced townhouse density on the perimeter not whatever car led nonsense this is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities
Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors
www.theguardian.com
July 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This country needs a new understanding of what rural development should be. Sustainable homes and amenities at the density of Italian hill towns 4 storeys minimum going down to terraced townhouse density on the perimeter not whatever car led nonsense this is.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Shocking to see something this misinformed from an mp. Creating unworkable and unhealthy communities is just building up worse problems for the future. Mental health, obesity problems etc.
July 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Shocking to see something this misinformed from an mp. Creating unworkable and unhealthy communities is just building up worse problems for the future. Mental health, obesity problems etc.
Actually being in touch with people and offering them things that responds to their needs. Might catch on.
Shooting our videos is a little bit different now.
July 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Actually being in touch with people and offering them things that responds to their needs. Might catch on.
Amazing set from Neil Young at #Glastonbury looking forward to seeing him live at Hyde Park.
June 28, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Amazing set from Neil Young at #Glastonbury looking forward to seeing him live at Hyde Park.
Really need a whole city civic event like this in London!
Fête de la Musique in Paris, aka Music Day, is today. There’s literally music everywhere. The whole city is public life. Including on the edge of the Seine, in a space that used to be a highway for cars. #MusicDay #ParisPlage
We can fit a lot into cities when we rethink cars.
We can fit a lot into cities when we rethink cars.
June 22, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Really need a whole city civic event like this in London!
So the Government is aiming for on average 300k housing completions per year but current housing *starts* are around the 115k mark. That means starts will have to increase to well over 400k per year or more to have a chance of catching up and delivering 1.5m in 5 years.
The next 6-12 months doesn't look too hopeful though - This chart shows housing starts, which are still trending sharply downwards. These will be the completions over the next year or so.
June 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
So the Government is aiming for on average 300k housing completions per year but current housing *starts* are around the 115k mark. That means starts will have to increase to well over 400k per year or more to have a chance of catching up and delivering 1.5m in 5 years.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
Stepping into a smooth quiet electric bus is a thing of wonder. All the hype around robotaxis etc and we already have something out of science fiction transforming central London that’s accessible and public!
Good job Norwich.
“A fleet of battery-powered buses is being credited with bringing air quality in a city within legal limits”
“A fleet of battery-powered buses is being credited with bringing air quality in a city within legal limits”
Electric buses help boost Norwich air quality levels
Improvements in air quality in Norwich are being attributed to 76 electric buses put into service.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Stepping into a smooth quiet electric bus is a thing of wonder. All the hype around robotaxis etc and we already have something out of science fiction transforming central London that’s accessible and public!
Couldn’t agree more.
Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss
Exclusive: Giving social housing same status as roads and energy would mean more investment in sector major providers say is at breaking point
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Couldn’t agree more.
Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Would you live in a 25 sq m Isokon minimum flat?
When one was exhibited at Dorland Hall in 1933, 12 flats were let before building work had begun!
Visit a real one on Sunday May 25, 1100-1300. There may be a wait. A donation of £10 per visitor is appreciated.
archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/jun...
When one was exhibited at Dorland Hall in 1933, 12 flats were let before building work had begun!
Visit a real one on Sunday May 25, 1100-1300. There may be a wait. A donation of £10 per visitor is appreciated.
archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/jun...
May 23, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Would you live in a 25 sq m Isokon minimum flat?
When one was exhibited at Dorland Hall in 1933, 12 flats were let before building work had begun!
Visit a real one on Sunday May 25, 1100-1300. There may be a wait. A donation of £10 per visitor is appreciated.
archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/jun...
When one was exhibited at Dorland Hall in 1933, 12 flats were let before building work had begun!
Visit a real one on Sunday May 25, 1100-1300. There may be a wait. A donation of £10 per visitor is appreciated.
archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/jun...
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3) Ultimately, migration shouldn’t be managed by the same government department as crime and domestic security. It should be its own department - with a focus on community cohesion, infrastructure, and the country’s real economic needs.
May 12, 2025 at 10:19 AM
3) Ultimately, migration shouldn’t be managed by the same government department as crime and domestic security. It should be its own department - with a focus on community cohesion, infrastructure, and the country’s real economic needs.
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Dreaming of an alternate reality where Starmer took the Spanish approach.
Sitting on a booming economy & thriving social care system would have made Farage look very silly in 2029.
I think that dream is now dead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Sitting on a booming economy & thriving social care system would have made Farage look very silly in 2029.
I think that dream is now dead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
www.theguardian.com
May 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Dreaming of an alternate reality where Starmer took the Spanish approach.
Sitting on a booming economy & thriving social care system would have made Farage look very silly in 2029.
I think that dream is now dead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Sitting on a booming economy & thriving social care system would have made Farage look very silly in 2029.
I think that dream is now dead.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Just four in 10 new homes in England currently come with solar power
The body representing local authorities think it should be *all* of them
It would benefit bill-payers & the climate, saving people £440 per year
news.sky.com/story/end-th...
The body representing local authorities think it should be *all* of them
It would benefit bill-payers & the climate, saving people £440 per year
news.sky.com/story/end-th...
End the 'absolute scandal' of new homes built without solar panels, government urged
Last year, Labour promised a "rooftop revolution" that would see millions more homes fitted with solar panels. But they have been accused of wavering over proposals to make it mandatory.
news.sky.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just four in 10 new homes in England currently come with solar power
The body representing local authorities think it should be *all* of them
It would benefit bill-payers & the climate, saving people £440 per year
news.sky.com/story/end-th...
The body representing local authorities think it should be *all* of them
It would benefit bill-payers & the climate, saving people £440 per year
news.sky.com/story/end-th...
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Great article -
You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.
You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.
BRIEFING | The myth of “left behind”
❓How should government respond to the political discontent signalled by the vote to leave the European Union and the more recent rise of Reform UK?
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❓How should government respond to the political discontent signalled by the vote to leave the European Union and the more recent rise of Reform UK?
buff.ly/g8K7EDQ 👇
April 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Great article -
You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.
You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.
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NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened.
"For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
"For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened.
"For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
"For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
This is not sustainable and Labour is not meeting the moment:
All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns
Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement
www.theguardian.com
March 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This is not sustainable and Labour is not meeting the moment:
All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Isokon Gallery is now open to visitors for 2025! If you missed the exhibition ‘Through a Bauhaus Lens: Edith Tudor-Hart and Isokon’ and exhibition of previously unseen 1933-34 photographs, there is still time.
For more information, please visit the Isokon Gallery website: isokongallery.org
For more information, please visit the Isokon Gallery website: isokongallery.org
Isokon Gallery
The Isokon Gallery is a permanent exhibition telling the remarkable story of the Isokon building, the pioneering modern apartment block opened in 1934 as an experiment in new ways of urban living.
isokongallery.org
March 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Isokon Gallery is now open to visitors for 2025! If you missed the exhibition ‘Through a Bauhaus Lens: Edith Tudor-Hart and Isokon’ and exhibition of previously unseen 1933-34 photographs, there is still time.
For more information, please visit the Isokon Gallery website: isokongallery.org
For more information, please visit the Isokon Gallery website: isokongallery.org
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“The new society it imagined didn’t come into being – not for want of trying by the socialists, Stalinists and anarchists who lived in its microcosm here in the 1930s; but the building still stands as a statement of expanded possibility”
The Isokon Building in Belsize Park in London has become an architectural icon, and its own history is full of scandal and Central European emigrés, writes Owen Hatherley
Spies and socialists in Belsize Park | Apollo Magazine
The Isokon Building has become an architectural icon, but its own history is full of scandal and Central European emigrés, writes Owen Hatherley
buff.ly
March 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
“The new society it imagined didn’t come into being – not for want of trying by the socialists, Stalinists and anarchists who lived in its microcosm here in the 1930s; but the building still stands as a statement of expanded possibility”
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The first comprehensive publication in English on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, best known as the designer of the Frankfurt Kitchen. Now available at our Gallery, and online too
Isokon gallery.org/products/margarete-schutte-lihotzky-architecture-politics-gender-new-perspectives-on-her-life-and-work
Isokon gallery.org/products/margarete-schutte-lihotzky-architecture-politics-gender-new-perspectives-on-her-life-and-work
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender.New Perspectives on Her Life and Work
Paperback, 368 pages By Marcel Bois and Bernadette Reinhold Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) entered the modernist canon with her Frankfurt Kitchen. She is also considered a pioneer of social ar...
isokongallery.org
March 12, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The first comprehensive publication in English on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, best known as the designer of the Frankfurt Kitchen. Now available at our Gallery, and online too
Isokon gallery.org/products/margarete-schutte-lihotzky-architecture-politics-gender-new-perspectives-on-her-life-and-work
Isokon gallery.org/products/margarete-schutte-lihotzky-architecture-politics-gender-new-perspectives-on-her-life-and-work
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UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
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Labour's promise to build 1.5m new homes is already sunk. Because it's terrified of state intervention and it's terrified of free movement it's going to leave another generation crammed into shoddy and overpriced rental properties. on.ft.com/3DpzKMj
UK construction activity falls at fastest pace since 2020
PMI index declines to five-year low as housebuilding plummets
on.ft.com
March 7, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Labour's promise to build 1.5m new homes is already sunk. Because it's terrified of state intervention and it's terrified of free movement it's going to leave another generation crammed into shoddy and overpriced rental properties. on.ft.com/3DpzKMj
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If you love #modernism, you’ll love being part of our team of volunteer gallery assistants. Recruiting now for the 2025 season.
February 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If you love #modernism, you’ll love being part of our team of volunteer gallery assistants. Recruiting now for the 2025 season.
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This Sunday, 2 March, from 1100-1300, you can visit one of the Isokon flats in exchange for a £10 donation to the gallery. There may be a wait. First come, first served.
February 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This Sunday, 2 March, from 1100-1300, you can visit one of the Isokon flats in exchange for a £10 donation to the gallery. There may be a wait. First come, first served.