James Taite

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The Neoliberalism of Robert A.M. Stern The passing of postmodern architecture’s last living holdout marks the end of an era—and reminds us that we’re in a new, worse one.

wrote about robert am stern (rip) and how postmodern architecture worked to disguise the rise of neoliberalism www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Solve the corner problem by doing whatever the fuck you want

Friday moustaches

Call me old-fashioned but in my day we took a second to think about whether we were going to kill someone.

I mean, it’s possible to detail stone on steel-frame beautifully; DC is full of it. But yeah, part of me is bracing for this to be more Skopje than John Russell Pope…

Ah right, did that just after asking

I’m just dying to see the stone detailing on this.

Where’s the detail Neil?

Limestone carving of face with pipe emitting smoke

Thursday pipe

Basil Spence's 1979 executive wing to the New Zealand parliament aka the beehive. Photo is taken from close with trees and steps in the foreground as entrance sequence

Basil Spence's 1979 executive wing to the New Zealand parliament aka the beehive to the left in the background, Parliament House from 1922 in an Edwardian Neoclassical style is in the foreground on the right

Basil Spence's 1979 executive wing to the New Zealand parliament aka the beehive to the left in the background, Parliament House from 1922 in an Edwardian Neoclassical style is in the foreground on the right

Basil Spence's 1979 executive wing to the New Zealand parliament aka the beehive. Photo is taken from close with trees and steps in the foreground as entrance sequence

Recently I saw NZ's Beehive parliament in the flesh, driven by curiosity after @cinemashoebox.bsky.social's twitter parliament culture war. Basil Spence's bit is cool by itself but the way it plays with the classical form it extends is exquisite. Those trads have no idea what they are missing!

I hope he isn’t putting too much effort into a deal that won’t be worth the paper it’s written on! I hope he’ll only sign something he’s willing to see ripped up!

I agree with everything you’re saying Peggy. I think maybe this is a case of different expectations; mine were extremely low after Carney’s 1st statement, and I was surprised to hear him walk it back and acknowledge that this is an illegal war. I’m not surprised though with how equivocating he was.

But of course it’s up to the lawyers and judges to decide if it violates the law. Who else? That said, legality and morality are 2 different things, and he’s been silent on the latter. But to come out and say that there is a prima facie legal objection is a step forward, and more than I expected.

I’m no Carney fan Peggy, but this sounds to me like pretty much the opposite of your interpretation: he’s saying the onus is on the US and Israel to justify this war, and in the absence of a compelling argument it violates international law.

Legend

A reminder of what we are losing to get this cheap shit metal and glass thing open.substack.com/pub/lloydalt...

Window detail of a fasba style straw timber earth wall, inside clay plaster

We have been making it very easy for you to learn and build the best possible practices. Keep in mind that we do not sell this; timber-, straw- and earth construction do not fit into the logic of linear capitalist economics. It is different. Circular, open/free, independent, participative, useful.

Climbing Strawberry Hill Gothic architecture before Horace Walpole

Today in a new free post on ‘All Old Strange Things’ I delve into one of my perennial hobbies - which is trying to track down early Neo-Gothic architecture pre-dating Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

oh I don’t need to be tagged Nick I just know

Mortar. Likely the same mortar they are bedded with. The joint may have been pointed to within a 1/4” or so of the top, and a sealant of some sort applied over it, but I don’t see much evidence of that on the stone.

Revisited some Rådhuset photos while messing around in Lightroom so you’re getting Asplund on your feed again. I miss him too

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I want more of this in and from architecture. Read the alt text.

Important to call lies out when there are lies. These are lies from a liar.

A close-up of the corner of a timber-framed building which is resting on a dozen mushroom-shaped stone supports, each a couple of feet high

Staddle stones supporting a 1731 granary www.wealddown.co.uk/buildings/gr...

extremely surreal to be listening to a sober discussion about Canadian military response to American filibuster but well here we are

the fundamental disagreement about AI seems to be whether it should be liberating and augmentative or whether should be vampiric and supplantive. outside of the companies themselves I don’t understand anyone who is in search of the latter.

Toronto Edwardian Beginning his career as an independent architect in the mid-1870s, Frank Darling came to prominence as the principal of Darling & Pearson Architects, designing a plethora of delightful bank buildings ...

Looking forward to this book launch tonight (which features a few of my photographs)

www.mqup.ca/Books/T/Toro...

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