Got the amazing opportunity last week to visit the restoration work at St Stephen Walbrook courtesy of Luka Pajovic
— a brilliant effort to secure the future of the finest Wren parish church in London, and credit to Daedalus Conservation for impeccable work

Fucking love Nicholas Hawksmoor

They do not sign leases, as we that are left sign leases:
Their landlords do not come into their flat with less than 24 hours notice, nor their boilers break down.
At the paying of the deposit, and in its retention
We will remember them

Had an incredible, chilly and almost hallucinogenic trip far east down the estuarine Thames on the Open City boat tour yesterday, led with inimitable vim by Benedict O'Looney, from Tudor naval yards to Ballymore's flatland — strongly recommend you book tickets for the next one

I just have a feeling that this is gonna be no good

remarkable to see the lonely island of the Express Building by Ellis & Clarke ft. Owen Williams floating on its own as part of large scale demolition of the surrounding office blocks (themselves barely 20 years old) to make room for BIG's wraparound pastiche deco stepback mess

How am I only just learning that much of the steel of Berlin's Palast der Republik after the demolition was shipped out to Dubai to be used in the Burj Khalifa?

I already hated the huge new chunky plasticky Land Rovers more than almost any other car, and now I discover that they project a hologram of themselves onto the pavement when one embarks

Summerson writing about Dudok in 1930 (published as 'A CUBIST ARCHITECT: SOME RECENT SCHOOLS AT HILVERSUM BY W. M. DUDOK' in The Builder

The remarkable Hilversum Town Hall by W.H. Dudok, completed in 1931. The horizontality of Frank Lloyd Wright combined with what John Summerson called “an exquisite sense of form” which has “enabled him to avoid many of the trite mannerisms current in modern Dutch architecture”

Everywhere the architecture is playful and joyous and rigorously committed to building a better society for all, made all the better by the rich sculptural programme of Hildo Krop, whose mix of rubbed brick and expressive stone places it amongst the best of the art nouveau modes

de Klerk grew up in grinding poverty at the end of the 19thC as Amsterdam reached urban crisis; he began work as a pencil sharpener for the architect Edward Cuypers, his philosophy: "Nothing is beautiful enough for the labourer who has had to live without beauty for so long."

An inspiring lesson in communal housing designed in 1919 by Michel de Klerk, Het Schip (“The Ship”) incorporated 102 housing cooperative homes, a socialist meeting hall, a post office and a school, in the flamboyant, curvaceous, playful language of the ‘Amsterdam School’

Some very well-mannered new buildings for Pembroke College Cambridge by Haworth Tompkins
- lots of oak, the by now ubiquitous allusive gable end, lovely light, nice rounded corner on the brick of the street facade - solid-feeling but maybe trying to hard to fit in?

mock tudor tending towards Cartesian space on the Isle of Wight

Moult's photos of London in the 20s, taken during trips to discover the latest in photographic science, contain the incredible pathos of the eye of the colonial subject turned towards the metropole, alongside absolute mastery of light, wet pavements, anonymous citizens of London

Astonishing photograph of the light in old Euston station taken in 1929 by Harry Moult, an electrical engineer from New Zealand who took up photography in the 20s as part of the 'Wellington Camera Circle'