This view reminds me a lot of the terraces in the North of England. That's what I find most interesting about Canadian architecture; the combination of brick, stone, elevation change & strong weather you see familiar details to the UK that you don't really see in buildings of the same era in the US.

He doesn't know what the House of Lords is nevermind how it functions or British law. Then again given his behaviour he isn't familiar with U S law either.

Just read it. This is what happens when you don't have technical knowledge & make your own spec for materials up on the fly. B/c all of these materials are really high quality & v. long lasting. But none are finished. Lime plaster needs limewash or distemper & concrete should've been sealed terrazzo

It's strange because she says that she had the screed (structural floor) scabbled down and polished. And you don't do that. You put a 20mm concrete and brick & tile aggregate on top of the screed and then have that polished and sealed. That's called a terrazzo floor. Which is what it should've been.

Quantity is prioritised over quality.a perennial problem since the 1940s. This is exacerbated by the state of the ongoing housing crisis that now demands quantity on mass scale is locked in, such that it is the sole guiding principle, which is running in tandem w/ suburbia & detached tract housing.

100+ jobs in a decade I've worked on at 3 companies, 0 were turned down for 'eco concerns.' That's an excuse to let noddy box makers go ham. We preempt most eco issues as part of day 1 of the design process. Often we add more eco provisions in b/c it makes places nicer, more likely to pass, and good

& huge variation in planning talent. Some it's a calling and they're phenomenal planners. But there are others that are discarded from other areas (their names appear across locales). And they make decisions based on covering for their lack of technical & local knowledge, killing good projects. 2/2

As someone that works in the architectural industry compliance with regulations, both safety or environmental, isn't a problem at all. That competency is on you. What does hold up planning is the understaffing, bringing in planners from areas not conversant with local heritage and design 1/2.

"If you don't like all that real tangible curated history we've got some hastily slapped together 'history' we knocked up just yesterday we can sell you out the back of this truck." Beyond satire. It's like something out of a 2000s comedy.

That takes me back!

An integral bit of the story there being overlooked, despite it being about a good 70% of his entire story and why he was knocking about with Franco etc al. Begs the question; what did their air? His marriage and that's all? A very short documentary if so.

With those windows it's really channeling its inner Fontainebleau.

Isn't it funny how they use the exact same term 'luvvies' as Knock Off Nige so frequently uses. Almost like the publication, it's editorials, and him are very familiar with one another, so much so they even crib from the same hymn sheet they share. As the only other person that says that term is him

They converted our local WHSmiths' into TGJones' recently. I went in them for the first time since and all of them have had their non-fiction sections entirely gutted. All replaced with vacuous celebrity & politician ghostwritten books, very low grade fiction, & books about how to use an air fryer.

And it uses pilasters that cut through two stories i.e. gigantic order in that dormer. Despite being overall small. Porta Pia + Vestibule of the Laurentian Library. It's a bit of tiny Mannerism! 2/2.

That bell tower dormer is a direct reference to the tabernacle windows and the door surrounds of Michelangelo would you believe. As the arch cuts through where the entablature should run across, and there's no entablature running up the rake inside the pediment along the tympanum. 1/2.

How can it possibly end scarcity by consuming more resources? The premise is ludicrous from any angle based on the evidence.

Lebanon's a democracy, the specifics & functions of which we are not the point. In the same way the UK is a democracy. Spain is too. Your mileage may vary. Some argue that the UK isn't a democracy either, at that point you're arguing apples and pears aren't fruit because they taste different.

It's such a pleasingly proportioned building too.

Lebanon is a parliamentary democracy, same as UK. He isn't even trying to maintain the thin facade of 'see I can't be racist if I'm wearing a suit' anymore. If he's framing a democratic party operating in a democratic system as the 'death of democracy' he's literally an anti-democracy cheerleader.

Is it wrong of me that I read this in David Attenborough's voice?

Reminds me of when HD (High Definition) was the buzzword. I remember a glasses manufacturer putting 'HD' logo on them despite being an entirely digital feature. The human eye is much higher fidelity, and the idea that glasses could somehow increase the digital DPI of the analogue eyeball tickled me.

Uncanny valley, can't tell if it's 1:1 scale or a Hornby 00 Gauge plastic model glued down on a piece black painted card. Absolutely repulsive to all the senses, as someone that actually designs for a living and has worked on grand houses. Fascinating that half the house has views of the garage.

Absolutely no need to apologise. There are a lot of sensible folk here that are genuinely looking forward to the next ones and appreciate the hard work you're all doing.

They want everything untrue to be true, they have to manufacture it into reality. They say cities are violent when they're not, then they send in militarised groups to try and start violence. They say poor and foreign are criminals when they're not, but nationals use private jets import their crimes

I'm curious as to how a driver, who cannot negotiate something as base level as a simple narrowing and deviation of a road, can be expected to avoid a pedestrian, and therefore is somehow still allowed to be a licence holder. Despite proving beyond all reasonable doubt that they cannot drive safely.

They do realise that if members of a capitalist society are not sufficiently financially recompensed for their work they cannot participate in society in any meaningful way or afford the goods and services produced by said society, and the entire economy grinds to a halt? This has literally happened

Having met quite a lot of people in Hackney in my time, this is a very Hackney thing to do.

I say 'for women' in their terms not in actual terms. Because after I left they really regressed things.

They didn't start dictating uniform until after me, then it was blazers, skirts (for women) etc. The default for us was trousers. You could wear shorts or skirt but no one did. Everyone just wore trousers, even the femme folk. Most folk had enough of shorts in the UK winter for PE, let alone skirts.