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Head of Development in Scotland’s Fastest Growing Local AuthorityTM. Affordable housing. Civic spaces. Sustainable, accessible places. 🇮🇪 in 🏴 🚴, 📖 and Point Break are some of my other interests. Views my own etc.
View of Newhaven harbour at sunset with lighthouse.
View from Newhaven with people fishing from foreshore with blue horizon and ship to right.
Image of heavy crane vessel in Leith Harbour with yellow base of wind turbine dwarfing it.
Looking at big ships while eating chips is a good Friday evening occupation.
“How to, with John Wilson…” touches on a lot of things town planners are into (wandering around places thinking about why things are the way they are) so I’m very much looking forward to this.
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Correct, these are minerals.
First known instance of attempted arrest under Town & Country Planning Act?!
Love to watch this every year. Even when no ☀️ it’s always a lovely moment of reflection.
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Print featuring a train moving on tracks covered in snow to the right along side houses with windows lit up in gold the dim winter light
'Snow in the Suburbs' by UK printmaker Gail Brodholt #WomensArt
Getting the glam on while checking the 🏴 score under the table at Learning Spaces Scotland awards. Wins on both accounts!
Illustration in black and white of a hippo like creature, walking upright through stormy weather with eyes shut
After living through the Nazi & atomic bomb eras, Tove Jansson writings would often encompass fearful ideas about loss of a familiar world. However she would balance this with characters who encompassed #kindness & #community, even in the darkest times #WomensArt #WorldKindnessDay
Absolutely gone at this story from Harris on FB, the last sentence is pure Atlantic coast magic.
Great to celebrate the work we are doing with Vattenfall Heat UK through our JV bringing low carbon heat to homes in Midlothian 🍾
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Edinburgh’s Architecture
Edinburgh’s Architecture
Edinburgh’s Architecture
Edinburgh’s Architecture
Edinburgh’s Architecture
Night time view of Old Tollbooth on Royal Mile Edinburgh. Steps up in foreground with clock face floating in dark sky looking like the moon.
The Old Tollbooth on Royal Mile last night. A higher quality waiting for taxi environment than most cities can offer.
Cycling through Edinburgh with afternoon sun catching on the cupolas and I want to reread @kathleenjamie.bsky.social essay Skylines in Findings as she captures this whole business in words much better than my photo can.
Maybe we should bring back city planning as a competitive sport!
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The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324
Tragic step count requires a drum and base / kitchen dancing solution.
Judo hall lit up at night in Alsace
Signage at community centre for various services available
Selection of charcuterie and cheese served in community centre for evening event
Very exciting hairdryers you pull down to head height and are sensor activated (hand driers for heads)
Civic/sports buildings are an underrated attraction in France. They are plain, well built, abundant and do a lot. We ate charcuterie while a rock band played at a local centre with a thermal pool and physio classes. Next door were the judo and basketball halls. Nearby, very exciting hairdryers. 🇫🇷
Ha! The rare Alsace / Edinburgh connection! (Been to Ittenheim this trip but not Achenheim).
Ha! I have family in Furdenheim and these are from a visit to Ottrott.
View of barn in foreground in with home attached behind it from Alsace town
View of home with barn attached with steep slate and timber roof
View through courtyard with home and farm equipment visible
Love the intermingling of home and barn in Alsace. Courtyards accommodating multiple generations of families, workers’ flats and equipment and buildings that can shape-shift over centuries.
Design and architecture museum? I went as student and loved it. They seem to have family friendly events / exhibitions as well.
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Looking out over the city of Edinburgh, hidden in fog. Four hills are visible, which look like islands in a sea of clouds.
Looking out over the city of Edinburgh, hidden in fog. Four hills are visible, which look like islands in a sea of clouds.
Incredible thermal inversion over Edinburgh from the pentlands this morning. Taken from Carnethy hill looking north-east, you can see Turnhouse, Castlelaw, Allermuir and Caerketton hills. What you can't see is any of the city of Edinburgh!
@threadinburgh.scot @secretedinburgh.bsky.social
Scott Monument in Edinburgh shrouded in mist at nighttime and looking well gothic.
Malevolent and mysterious vibes from the Scott Monument this evening.
A photo of the entrance to The Word for World exhibition, with two banners hanging vertically down outside the doorway to a brick building with white-paned windows. A row of bicycles are parked in front. The banners are purple and white and say the name of the exhibition and Ursula K. Le Guin's name.
A cord-wrapped rock rests on a vivid blue background next to a map of and program for The Word for World exhibition.
A stack of copies of The Word for World book, which shows the title in vivid blue against a black cloth cover.
Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.
The southwest façade of North Bridge with the Balmoral and Waverley station in the background.
Close up of the southwest façade of North Bridge.
Close up of the southwest façade of North Bridge.
The southwest façade of North Bridge is on show again!
We can now see the expert hand finished details in all their glory.
Work is continuing to ensure that this unique piece of Edinburgh's history is preserved for future generations.
Manchán Magan 1970 - 2025 💔
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The V&A East Storehouse is full of stunning surprises like this complete office that Frank Lloyd Wright created for Pittsburgh retail magnate Edgar J Kaufmann in 1935-1937 (THREAD)
Holding slide from RTPI Scotland 2925 conference stating conference title of “shaping our future: healthy places and happy people”.
Fascinating to get summary of research from the hugely influential @jennyjroe.bsky.social on benefits of green space on mental health, setting scene for day of discussion at @rtpiplanners.bsky.social Scotland conference on making healthy places for happy people.
View of ziggurat block and central open space
View of ziggurat block and landscaping
Walkway uphill to entrance
View from block
Kate Macintosh designed Dawson’s Heights for Southwark Council in 1964 aged just 28. (She's alive and well and still fighting for high quality social housing.) English Heritage described it as ‘an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscape’
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William Playfair was the brother of architect James and minister and mathematician John. His nephew William Henry Playfair is renowned as the architect of Edinburgh's 3rd New Town and more than a few neoclassical landmarks in the city.