Chris Costelloe
@chriscostelloe.bsky.social
Toiling in the heritage vineyards…
I’ve now seen Robin Hood Gardens, or bits of it, in Blackwall, Venice and Stratford. This sliver may work as a positional good for the V&A but it fails to capture the building’s complex essence, wonderfully summed up by @municipaldreams.bsky.social here municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/r...
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I’ve now seen Robin Hood Gardens, or bits of it, in Blackwall, Venice and Stratford. This sliver may work as a positional good for the V&A but it fails to capture the building’s complex essence, wonderfully summed up by @municipaldreams.bsky.social here municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/r...
A raw experience to see Dana Awartani’s ‘Standing by the ruins’ at the Arnolfini in Bristol as the destruction of Gaza City, which inspired it, reaches its climax…
September 18, 2025 at 6:22 PM
A raw experience to see Dana Awartani’s ‘Standing by the ruins’ at the Arnolfini in Bristol as the destruction of Gaza City, which inspired it, reaches its climax…
Obama’s taste in wallpaper is fairly hotel corridor… time to bring back the strong meat of William H Taft’s Oval Office…
May 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Obama’s taste in wallpaper is fairly hotel corridor… time to bring back the strong meat of William H Taft’s Oval Office…
This map of Manchester’s trams in 1933 suggests otherwise…
November 24, 2024 at 2:59 PM
This map of Manchester’s trams in 1933 suggests otherwise…
St Dunstan-in-the-East, City of London. Thanks to a decent maintenance budget and good planting, perhaps the best embodiment of Kenneth Clark’s Bombed Churches as War Memorials.
November 11, 2024 at 11:17 PM
St Dunstan-in-the-East, City of London. Thanks to a decent maintenance budget and good planting, perhaps the best embodiment of Kenneth Clark’s Bombed Churches as War Memorials.