Vlugt-in-Bton
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Marooned over the atlantic since 1996. Stop using AI. It's not good for anyone.
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Trying to re-kick-start research-did this on twitter but not here. A scattershot survey of arrival sequence in British housing aimed at underscoring how space/form frames sense of place, individual identity, idea of belonging or alientation. Beyond threshold-it's the space&act working together.
no.25. First deck or gallery access housing scheme. Streatham St. 1849 Henry Roberts. Hard boundary at street, door leads to open lobby, stair and access decks. Note brick massing, collecting every two floors, like giant renaissance orders - complimented by light railings in intermediate floors.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
no.25. First deck or gallery access housing scheme. Streatham St. 1849 Henry Roberts. Hard boundary at street, door leads to open lobby, stair and access decks. Note brick massing, collecting every two floors, like giant renaissance orders - complimented by light railings in intermediate floors.
“Labour does need to win back some Reform-leaning voters" NO IT DOES NOT. Labour can win by providing labour voters with policies they can support. They don't do this on purpose because they don't serve voters, they serve donors.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK to announce plans to emulate stringent Danish immigration system
Proposals draw scorn from some Labour MPs who say it is a ‘dangerous path’ to take, while others want the government to go further
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“Labour does need to win back some Reform-leaning voters" NO IT DOES NOT. Labour can win by providing labour voters with policies they can support. They don't do this on purpose because they don't serve voters, they serve donors.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
“All family dwellings have at least two living rooms and flexible multi-use space included.” Neave Brown 1966.
In a Post-covid, work-from-home context, you'd think new housing would catch up with 1960s council housing standards. We're nowhere close to it - even in private high end provision.
In a Post-covid, work-from-home context, you'd think new housing would catch up with 1960s council housing standards. We're nowhere close to it - even in private high end provision.
October 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
“All family dwellings have at least two living rooms and flexible multi-use space included.” Neave Brown 1966.
In a Post-covid, work-from-home context, you'd think new housing would catch up with 1960s council housing standards. We're nowhere close to it - even in private high end provision.
In a Post-covid, work-from-home context, you'd think new housing would catch up with 1960s council housing standards. We're nowhere close to it - even in private high end provision.
no.24. Cranbrook Estate, Lubetkin 1963. Another entry from the master of entry sequences. Avoiding the anonymous entry hall; the entry reaches out into the landscape welcoming residents and guiding the outside/inside transition.
October 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
no.24. Cranbrook Estate, Lubetkin 1963. Another entry from the master of entry sequences. Avoiding the anonymous entry hall; the entry reaches out into the landscape welcoming residents and guiding the outside/inside transition.
no.23. Ham Common, Stirling Gowan, 1958. Entry lobby as captured exterior space. Upper level floats in continuous void linking all the front doors. A lesson in making an interior lobby that links front door to the outside.
October 23, 2025 at 8:42 AM
no.23. Ham Common, Stirling Gowan, 1958. Entry lobby as captured exterior space. Upper level floats in continuous void linking all the front doors. A lesson in making an interior lobby that links front door to the outside.
no22. Interior lobbies with some care; gentle transition from outside to inside. not as luxurious as earlier Lubetkin projects but still showing interest in flow from city to home. One could even say there's a classical procession - loggia to rotunda - here.
October 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
no22. Interior lobbies with some care; gentle transition from outside to inside. not as luxurious as earlier Lubetkin projects but still showing interest in flow from city to home. One could even say there's a classical procession - loggia to rotunda - here.
How to lose an election:
Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’
In a combative speech, the prime minister will pledge to raise living standards and ‘face down’ threats of a volatile world
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
How to lose an election:
Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
True, I read it in an imaginary report I made up. That's enough evidence for me.
I think guns and SUVs cause autism. We should ban those.
September 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
True, I read it in an imaginary report I made up. That's enough evidence for me.
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Hah hah. Funny! Becauss -- get it -- you could leave the dock of your village to go catch fish and be blown apart by guided missile fired by a nation with whom your country is not actually at war. You'd be dead and no fish for dinner! Hilarious.
We are the terrorists.
We are the shithole nation.
We are the terrorists.
We are the shithole nation.
Vance on Trump's strikes on boats: "I wouldn't go fishing right now in that area of the world."
September 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Hah hah. Funny! Becauss -- get it -- you could leave the dock of your village to go catch fish and be blown apart by guided missile fired by a nation with whom your country is not actually at war. You'd be dead and no fish for dinner! Hilarious.
We are the terrorists.
We are the shithole nation.
We are the terrorists.
We are the shithole nation.
“For the work of many talented architects is seen to be more frequently an indulgence in individual virtuosity, rather than an attempt to correlate the problem at hand with the problem at large.” Neave Brown, 1963. Still true.
September 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“For the work of many talented architects is seen to be more frequently an indulgence in individual virtuosity, rather than an attempt to correlate the problem at hand with the problem at large.” Neave Brown, 1963. Still true.
Neave Brown in 1967 describing a problem that has plagued architecture up to the present. Except coercion by the Modern Movement was replaced by coercion from high tech, post-modernism, deconstruction, superdutch, 'green architecture', parametricism, deleuzism, etc. Utterly sharp &brilliant writer.
September 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Neave Brown in 1967 describing a problem that has plagued architecture up to the present. Except coercion by the Modern Movement was replaced by coercion from high tech, post-modernism, deconstruction, superdutch, 'green architecture', parametricism, deleuzism, etc. Utterly sharp &brilliant writer.
After a summer break. No.21. Ham Common. Stirling/Gowan 1958. Interior lobby that is still as much outside as in. The transparency & light transforms a standard lobby, corridor & stair type entry into something beautiful. Maybe not a social space, but still celebrational.
September 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
After a summer break. No.21. Ham Common. Stirling/Gowan 1958. Interior lobby that is still as much outside as in. The transparency & light transforms a standard lobby, corridor & stair type entry into something beautiful. Maybe not a social space, but still celebrational.
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Humanise wall my ass.
Heatherwick sucks and his work has killed people.
Heatherwick sucks and his work has killed people.
At a time when architects across the world are working out how to create timber and environmentally conscious structures, here is Heatherwick with an enormous steel construction for what amounts to a big wall of images about the surface and aesthetic of buildings. Finger on the pulse.
September 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Humanise wall my ass.
Heatherwick sucks and his work has killed people.
Heatherwick sucks and his work has killed people.
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Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it.
This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
September 1, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .
Agree.
This "architectural sophistication"* can fuck right off.
(*as can Dezeen's continued garbage criticality)
(*as can Dezeen's continued garbage criticality)
September 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Agree.
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...
Alexandra Road Retrofit: Stop Potential Fuel Poverty, Mould, and Inequality
Camden Council’s proposed heating retrofit for the iconic Grade II* listed Alexandra Road Estate risks locking residents into permanently high bills, colder homes, damp and mould and greater inequalit...
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August 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...
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Just in case people are unclear, putting 'hundreds of thousands' of human beings into camps is fucking evil. Are we all clear on that? You know when we talk about those lines before which we shouldn't draw parallels, this is one of those lines. This is evil, Farage is a fascist. These truths matter.
The Times editorial line: "sieve" the entire population so we can put 100s of thousands of people into camps.
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
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"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
archive.ph/78dcP
August 27, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Just in case people are unclear, putting 'hundreds of thousands' of human beings into camps is fucking evil. Are we all clear on that? You know when we talk about those lines before which we shouldn't draw parallels, this is one of those lines. This is evil, Farage is a fascist. These truths matter.
I've thought this for a long time. It's deliberate and they know exactly what they are doing. The last bit is apt - when do we act?
Global warming is a deliberate policy of death for the poor, sick and vulnerable. A global necropolitics.
jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
jksteinberger.medium.com/climate-necr...
August 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I've thought this for a long time. It's deliberate and they know exactly what they are doing. The last bit is apt - when do we act?
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world leaders are meeting now to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty.
the majority of countries are prepared to cap plastic production.
but negotiations are about to collapse — because the US, Russia, and the Gulf States flooded the event with 234 oil industry lobbyists who are disrupting progress.
the majority of countries are prepared to cap plastic production.
but negotiations are about to collapse — because the US, Russia, and the Gulf States flooded the event with 234 oil industry lobbyists who are disrupting progress.
August 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
world leaders are meeting now to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty.
the majority of countries are prepared to cap plastic production.
but negotiations are about to collapse — because the US, Russia, and the Gulf States flooded the event with 234 oil industry lobbyists who are disrupting progress.
the majority of countries are prepared to cap plastic production.
but negotiations are about to collapse — because the US, Russia, and the Gulf States flooded the event with 234 oil industry lobbyists who are disrupting progress.
N.20. Alton East 1955. Rosemary Stjernstedt for LCC. Single Entry to lift/stair lobby. Model for most high-rise although many don't have the link to natural light or views out from the lobby. Small detail but helps orientation when landing 10 storeys up in the air.
August 11, 2025 at 12:07 PM
N.20. Alton East 1955. Rosemary Stjernstedt for LCC. Single Entry to lift/stair lobby. Model for most high-rise although many don't have the link to natural light or views out from the lobby. Small detail but helps orientation when landing 10 storeys up in the air.
n.19. Highpoint I, 1934, Lubetkin. Single entry w/carport. Luxurious lobby leading to two stair cores (which are largely hidden). Big, elongated space between front door & lift/stair core. Conscious making of meaningful buffer zone. Model largely fogetten, except in luxury high-rise.
August 9, 2025 at 9:59 AM
n.19. Highpoint I, 1934, Lubetkin. Single entry w/carport. Luxurious lobby leading to two stair cores (which are largely hidden). Big, elongated space between front door & lift/stair core. Conscious making of meaningful buffer zone. Model largely fogetten, except in luxury high-rise.
no.18. Albert Hall Mansions. Hard boundary like Glasgow tenements, but two doors -1 for residents, 1 for servants. Proto-version of 'poor door'. Doors lead to separate circulation to flats. Clever but can it be used today? Maybe in block of live-work units w separate routes for resident&visitor?
August 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
no.18. Albert Hall Mansions. Hard boundary like Glasgow tenements, but two doors -1 for residents, 1 for servants. Proto-version of 'poor door'. Doors lead to separate circulation to flats. Clever but can it be used today? Maybe in block of live-work units w separate routes for resident&visitor?
No.17. Glasgow Tenement, 19th century. Hard boundary-door or gate to interior close leading to 2 flats per floor. Stair cores often lit from courtyard. For some reason routes are slightly irregular lending an organic feel. Materials show care for this semi-public/private space.
July 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
No.17. Glasgow Tenement, 19th century. Hard boundary-door or gate to interior close leading to 2 flats per floor. Stair cores often lit from courtyard. For some reason routes are slightly irregular lending an organic feel. Materials show care for this semi-public/private space.
No.16. Donnybrook, Peter Barber. Back to one door one flat. Level access, min threshold. Pedestrian street as buffer. Upper units use stair up to patio. For this to work open space must be designed together with the housing. Fence in last photo maybe not nicest way to demarcate a separate territory.
July 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
No.16. Donnybrook, Peter Barber. Back to one door one flat. Level access, min threshold. Pedestrian street as buffer. Upper units use stair up to patio. For this to work open space must be designed together with the housing. Fence in last photo maybe not nicest way to demarcate a separate territory.