Nick de Klerk
@nickdk.bsky.social
Architect, writer, occasional critic; hotel specialist / sector head at Purcell Architecture. Views all my own, ofc.
https://nicholasdeklerk.com
https://nicholasdeklerk.com
In situ at CX station
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In situ at CX station
My latest review for Building Design considers Jon Blair’s recent film about Eric Parry’s approach to architecture - The Art of Architecture - and offered the opportunity to ask some big questions, as the film does: www.bdonline.co.uk/briefing/the...
October 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My latest review for Building Design considers Jon Blair’s recent film about Eric Parry’s approach to architecture - The Art of Architecture - and offered the opportunity to ask some big questions, as the film does: www.bdonline.co.uk/briefing/the...
May 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This feels like the most DS+R project ever: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
May 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This feels like the most DS+R project ever: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
And this, dear reader, is why people like this shouldn’t be anywhere near such consequential technology. ‘The coolest, really?’ And no, I didn’t read anything in the interview that persuaded me otherwise.
May 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
And this, dear reader, is why people like this shouldn’t be anywhere near such consequential technology. ‘The coolest, really?’ And no, I didn’t read anything in the interview that persuaded me otherwise.
Sun setting over the Reichstag in Berlin, snapped while getting lost in Friedrichstrasse station.
April 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sun setting over the Reichstag in Berlin, snapped while getting lost in Friedrichstrasse station.
There are concept sketches and then there are concept sketches…. www.ribaj.com/buildings/do...
March 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
There are concept sketches and then there are concept sketches…. www.ribaj.com/buildings/do...
You’ve reminded me that it wasn’t always like that - I had used it routinely for a couple of years (mostly passing through) in the 90’s when I also lived not far away.
March 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
You’ve reminded me that it wasn’t always like that - I had used it routinely for a couple of years (mostly passing through) in the 90’s when I also lived not far away.
Berlin, or at least a couple of pieces of the wall, comes to Lewisham.
March 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Berlin, or at least a couple of pieces of the wall, comes to Lewisham.
I was kind of getting into the virtual NG a little, but having discovered this painting again, I really just want to go and sit in front of it: imaginarium.nationalgallery.org.uk/imaginarium/...
March 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I was kind of getting into the virtual NG a little, but having discovered this painting again, I really just want to go and sit in front of it: imaginarium.nationalgallery.org.uk/imaginarium/...
I do like this, by Office KGDVS though
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I do like this, by Office KGDVS though
‘Walls would be lined with waste materials from Portland stone quarries – less polished than most of the museum, and suggestive of excavation and archaeology.’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
March 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
‘Walls would be lined with waste materials from Portland stone quarries – less polished than most of the museum, and suggestive of excavation and archaeology.’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘The Chateau in particular is a kind of halfway house, a perfect bardo, a suspension of reality.’ www.ft.com/content/442d...
February 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‘The Chateau in particular is a kind of halfway house, a perfect bardo, a suspension of reality.’ www.ft.com/content/442d...
Actually made me think of this a little, a vault under the London Bridge viaduct at the end of Bermondsey Street
February 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Actually made me think of this a little, a vault under the London Bridge viaduct at the end of Bermondsey Street
A (not quite) glassy river and a river of glass - two points on my travels today.
January 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A (not quite) glassy river and a river of glass - two points on my travels today.
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
January 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
![I begin by asking Corbet: why archi-tecture? "Because of how similar the process of making a movie is to building a building," he says. "It requires the same amount of personnel, roughly it's about 250 people to make a movie and 250 people to build a building of scale.
My uncle is an architect, and whenever we chat, we have a lot of the same gripes and experiences... so this was a way of my wife [Norwegian filmmaker Mona Fastvold] and I writing something that we were extremely familiar with."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7c72dgx65jwulhmu647guea/bafkreiclrata7xmneuzovlajrwiyhajmhtbsjdmm2r5ym5scxhuoo7v7ty@jpeg)
January 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Not one at risk AFAIK, but perhaps the most influential of these houses for me, was Pierre Koenig’s #21
January 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Not one at risk AFAIK, but perhaps the most influential of these houses for me, was Pierre Koenig’s #21
I’ve been lucky enough to see Turrell installations on at least two occasions: in what was the Pace gallery at the back of the RA in 2013, and earlier in 2010 at Gagosian Britannia Street, including the Bindi Shards - which was quite something.
January 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’ve been lucky enough to see Turrell installations on at least two occasions: in what was the Pace gallery at the back of the RA in 2013, and earlier in 2010 at Gagosian Britannia Street, including the Bindi Shards - which was quite something.
Albrecht Durer’s Melencholia I, 1514: pdimagearchive.org/images/c341b...
January 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Albrecht Durer’s Melencholia I, 1514: pdimagearchive.org/images/c341b...
There are far worse ways to spend your sunday evening than browsing the @pdimagearchive.bsky.social archive. This is Karl Blossfeldt in 1928 from Urformen der Kunst: pdimagearchive.org/images/fd18d...
January 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There are far worse ways to spend your sunday evening than browsing the @pdimagearchive.bsky.social archive. This is Karl Blossfeldt in 1928 from Urformen der Kunst: pdimagearchive.org/images/fd18d...
A very icy Greenwich Park
January 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A very icy Greenwich Park
I always loved ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)’, was disappointed not to see it included in this show.
January 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I always loved ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)’, was disappointed not to see it included in this show.
The Queen’s House in Greenwich.
January 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Queen’s House in Greenwich.
January 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM