architecture, progress, liberty
Joined February 2009
- Tweets 32,225
- Following 1,213
- Followers 5,047
- Likes 22,659
2,454 Photos and videos
Pinned Tweet
Mar 16
You can just build houses if you want.
me on Oosterwold in @Countrylifemag
countrylife.co.uk/architectu…
1
3
15
1,349
tim abrahams retweeted
Indeed, vox pops are extremely valuable when you build up a reasonable dataset.
I watched Corey Gil-Shuster interview Israelis and Palestinians on the streets over the last 10 years, and it became obvious that plans for peace were impossible. The older generations were sanguine and reasonable. The younger generation was full of irreconcilable bile and prejudice.
A harbinger of Gaza, in other words.
m.youtube.com/@CoreyGilShust…
1
1
1
291
tim abrahams retweeted
Jun 12
Modernism in Powell and Pressburger.
1
2
19
1,067
Jun 12
huge if true
Jun 12
Noel Gallagher once opened up about his biggest musical influences. 🎤👇
1
18
1,113
Jun 12
"Do remember they can't cancel spring"
RIP David Hockney.
28
1,811
11,051
132,607
Jun 12
Mario Botta, Pope John XXIII Church in Seriate, Italy, completed in 2004. One of Botta's more serene interiors, its geometric simplicity reconciling itself to the liturgy rather than struggling against it with circular geometries.
1
35
1,226
Jun 11
Constructed from layers of marble and gneiss, the Church of San Giovanni Battista, Mogno by Mario Botta, was built between 1992 and 1996. Botta's design - the first of many churches - replaced the previous 17th century building which was destroyed by an avalanche in 1986.
1
1
23
704
Jun 11
You can see where the idea for this came from:
Jun 8
The only cathedral built in France in the 20th century, Evry Cathedral by the Swiss architect Mario Botta sits in the new town to the SE of paris. It is crowned by 24 silver linden trees, symbolising the hours in the day, but also, apparently, the apostles and tribes of Israel.
15
790
Jun 10
La Dame du Lac by Pierre Székely, arguably the birthplace of parkour. A sculpture designed to be climbed on, built on the other side of the Paris Lyon motorway to the Pyramides of Evry, on the cusp of an ornamental park. Home and recreation both modernist scultpural monuments.
1
1
16
813
Jun 10
Les Pyramides.
Jun 9
The Pyramides in Evry, an orbital town of Paris, similar in plan to Noisy-le-Grand. High density core built on top of a transit stop with an artificial lake and a plaza as a gesture to civic function. Nicknamed Pyracrimes by a rapper from the same neighborhood. cf. Pyragansta.
13
688
Jun 10
In Hamburg they renovated the Alster-Schwimhalle and added a sauna complex.
"Opportunity missed" as Coventry's post-war swimming pool set for demolition:
dezeen.com/2026/06/09/covent…
1
20
1,002
Jun 10
Despite the scepticism of contemporary critics, Émile Aillaud and other architects working in the Ile de France around Paris, attempted to compensate for the uniformity created by industrialized constructional methods with curved forms, like La grande Borne completed in 1971.
1
15
858
Jun 10
The banlieues of Paris are full of extravagant architectural expressions with pretentious names - L'Espaces d'Abraxas and the Arènes de Picasso👇 - made by architects in the late 1960s and 1970s desperate to humanise a highly proscriptive state planning system and industrial construction.
19
560
Jun 10
wtf
VoteHub projects Steve Hilton to advance from the Nonpartisan primary for California Governor.
1
17
681
Jun 10
14
491
tim abrahams retweeted
Saemoonan Church in Seoul, Korea
6
23
249
7,782
Jun 9
Liam Young, an architect but also a film maker, has a fascinating exhibition at the Barbican on world-building and imagining currentlyl. Are his creations distopias or utopias? We spoke about Andor, populism and the entertainment industry.
1
14
621
Jun 9
The Pyramides in Evry, an orbital town of Paris, similar in plan to Noisy-le-Grand. High density core built on top of a transit stop with an artificial lake and a plaza as a gesture to civic function. Nicknamed Pyracrimes by a rapper from the same neighborhood. cf. Pyragansta.
1
14
957
Jun 8
Aleksandr Deyneka Building Peace, 1960. Sketch for a mural mosaic at the First National Art Exhibition of Soviet Russia, Moscow.
2
16
681
Jun 8
The only cathedral built in France in the 20th century, Evry Cathedral by the Swiss architect Mario Botta sits in the new town to the SE of paris. It is crowned by 24 silver linden trees, symbolising the hours in the day, but also, apparently, the apostles and tribes of Israel.
3
5
34
3,195