Screenshot of a TikTok comment from God. “Very well articulated and explained. Thank you George.”
I have a small but elite tier of fans.
21.08.2025 21:20
👍 3
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
Screenshot of a TikTok comment from God. “Very well articulated and explained. Thank you George.”
I have a small but elite tier of fans.
Giving people what they want (building physics content, according to the Tiktok algorhythm).
Is air conditioning bad for climate change - or part of the solution?
www.tiktok.com/@onepointfiv...
I think the reason why there's almost no architects and building designers on tiktok is that while it's fun to make little videos, you can get 350k views, 16k likes and 573 comments.
And zero enquiries from it.
Overheating is a massive problem in flats in London.
So what’s the cause?
youtube.com/shorts/Ov063...
Why are these flats too hot? It's really simple. And it's not a 'lack of trees'.
www.tiktok.com/@onepointfiv...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
If you're in or have joined the Greens, and you're not voting for this man next week, then I seriously, seriously question your every political judgement.
A weaker willed housing association might think that after the Grenfell fire, the safety of high rise buildings was important.
But Poplar Harca have the fortitude simply to not worry about it.
Selfie of me grinning and giving a thumbs up, in front of a puddle in a corridor, leading into the door of the electrical riser.
Celebrating 1 year of telling #PoplarHarca about rainwater flowing into the electrical riser of a high rise building!
Poplar Harca truly have the confidence to ignore the haters and believe that electricity and water mix just fine.
Inspirational!
Starting some transatlantic architecture beefs
vm.tiktok.com/ZNd5EC1Ar/
Wouldn't disagree with any of this, but you'd never get e.g. lawyers doing all this work for free.
Upstream of procurement systems is supply and demand: there are more architects than there is work for, so you can exploit them as much as you please.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/david-l...
I am stood next to a half barrel with a cherry sapling on it, watering it with a hose. A brick wall is behind and a dead hedge of twigs in front.
Future cherries
I got some perlite in the end
Oh we’ve got plenty of that
I shall go to the garden centre and get some of everything!
We’ve got half barrels with holes in the bottoms, for the fruit trees roots to grow through.
What kind of compost should we buy for the barrels though, and should we add stuff to hold moisture?
It should have just mandated shutters or other external shading to windows, which would actually prevent overheating, rather than this unworkable mess.
I don't know why regulation is so bad in this country.
Part O - the new regs to prevent overheating - is at fault here.
And it won't even work to prevent overheating, since they want you to open the window to cool the room down, which doesn't work when it's too hot outside.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...
Five years to get a planning approval for three houses!
The planning system is the main cause of the shortage of homes.
nation.cymru/news/housing...
I feel entirely Chris Morris Jam Festival about this.
youtu.be/G07sWzYObnk
This whole event is just incredibly embarrassing, architects humiliating themselves with this absurd nonsense in the hope of catching some rich client's eye.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/winner-...
I submitted a complaint to the new Building Safety Regulator about a fire safety issue which the dipshit housing association is too incompetent to fix.
I'm not holding out much hope but we shall see.
Three minute green seedlings in the bare soil.
Tiny seedlings
Looking over a raised bed with some wee seedlings in it, to an area of tarmac, cleared into the bare soil. Brick walls with trees behind.
A little insight into how archeology all ends up in layers.
Only about 12 years ago the tarmac surface under the abandoned carpark turned community garden was exposed.
Now there’s inches of soil on it.
North Americans build with what in Europe would seem more like packaging materials.
Four house plants on brown aluminium decking, getting rained on
Taking the studio plants out into the rain to give them a little treat.
This is based on the false assumption (and common NIMBY talking point) that it's developers (who actually build homes) responsible for the housing shortage, rather than the planning system (which prevents building homes almost everywhere).
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/develop...
An area of tarmac about the size of a small bedroom, with bare earth around it. Two brick walls meet in the far corner.
And we moved an area of soil off the tarmac - the garden used to be a car park - to form a patio area.
We planted seeds for bee and butterfly attracting flowers on the new beds.
The raised bed now has wee mini versions of the above mentioned plants in the wet compost
We cycled up to Hackney Wick and bought a couple of tomato plants, some herbs, perpetual spinach and rainbow chard.
Haha thanks!