CIOB reaffirms commitment to EDI - Construction Management - really proud of the work in our sector to work towards greater inclusion
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A huge crystal chandelier in a grand room, with a lecture and screen to one side
And so to Bath, where even conference venues have a stunning chandelier.
I'm at the Bath Preservation Trust Sustainable Development x Urban Conservation conference
The City as Interface: How Legible Cities Rethink Wayfinding Using UX Design | ArchDaily buff.ly/2cxOCbg the title belies a really interesting topic for landscape architects
Lost in the unending glow: the hidden costs of a city that never sleeps
Amongst the grim climate change news it's good to know at least one country is on track.
Behind the scenes there is a lot of hard work. As the first country to commit to climate change in law I'm glad despite all the political whims this commitment has endured.
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos
I appreciate that Eleanor is fictional but small wins 😀
Isn't there an Eleanor Rigby too? I've only seen the photo of the statue in the station toilets (high glamour!)
Designing with Biodiversity (Part II) https://buff.ly/4jFlDD1
Love these floating wetlands
Bicycle bridge in Tübingen opened in autumn 2024. It is heated to sub-zero temperatures, thereby preventing snow, ice and slipping. This is taking sustainable mobility seriously. Fantastic!
Final five contenders of Grenfell memorial design shortlist revealed
I love to know how scale works - are modern sculptures true to height or are they still scaled up to show *greatness*
Bronze statue of Queen Victoria in robes holding an orb and staring into the middle distance, from Victoria Square, Birmingham
People of #Birmingham, I need your help. A 🧵.
With my gender-in-the-built-environment hat on, I am looking at representation, specifically statues.
So far the work's mostly been done in London, but apparently in Birmingham there are just two statues of women.
One is Queen Victoria here.
I asked AI to find me the 10 most recent male and female statues, so this is a good start
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I think might be part of it, but I want women raised up, at outlandish scale, showing how amazing they are. Not meek little heads at waist level, or homely settings. I think there might be bias in the choices
Good example - men are still getting a lovely plinth I see artuk.org/discover/sto...
As I feel she deserves
I love this! I also find when there are statues of women they are lower key and lower level. It seems men can be represented at huge scale on a huge plinth but women are represented in less grand ways. There is a lovely statue of Agatha Christie in Wallingford but she's not set on high
The Insidious Effects of Hurrying https://buff.ly/4jfblck
I think that post-covid many of us are still stuck in emergency mode. Maybe 2025, 5 years on, is the point we go back to a less reactive working mode.
frank lloyd wright's 1948 weisblat house hits the market in michigan https://buff.ly/3E4r39Z | yours for just $2.25m
of course! I'll message you
Landscape Performance Case Studies on the World Stage | Landscape Performance Series
If you've not seen these reports they are well worth a look
I'm in Oxfordshire - interesting to see the AI growth zone is at Culham. Close to Didcot Power Station, which I'm guessing is a factor. Plus location of fusion energy research.
I'm always keen to talk to anyone who is working on landscape and carbon especially
- carbon release from soils during excavation and storage
- baseline data for different land uses
- creation of open databases to store and share data
- retention and reuse of site materials
