tim abrahams

You can just build houses if you want. me on Oosterwold in @Countrylifemag countrylife.co.uk/architecture/t…

IT’S FRIDAY. It’s The Fall x

A new exhibition and site specific art responses to the Arab Hall @LeightonHouse_ open today. But the original created by artist Frederic Leighton (1830-1896) following travels in Africa and the Middle East is all we need. Most beautiful room in London.

Pics by Siobhan Doran. In the exhibition there are some great drawings by the architect George Aitchison on how the different collected pieces were assembled together.

zero problems with this. let's have more global sporting events on our roads which lead to general improvements.

So very modern Britain. £180m spent. Result: absolutely nothing at all.

What a useless bunch of pricks.

Rochetta Mettei, designed by its owner Count Cesare Mattei, otherwise known as a politician and pioneer of the pseudo-science of electro-homeopathy. He completed most works by end of 19th century.

@sazzam31 @KarlreMarks little dash of florian to it just to keep it fresh.

@KarlreMarks Yeah, that goal was pure Mo

Desperately sad to see this version of Mo. Awful

Phoenix Financial Center (1968) designed by Wenceslao Sarmiento

@TimandraHarknes Do not stop doing this.

My strategy of watching #LFC in a pub continues to bring victory!* Here in Oslo with local fans #YNWA

Inside the Ilinden Memorial (also known as Makedonium) in Krusevo, Macedonia.

@John_Attridge What kind of pay scale did you have in mind?

Magazines should have to pay more for really big words

@QuietReckon @pmarca Not sure that’s true - “rumination” simply means “thinking deeply”. It’s even less introspective than “introspection.”

@pmarca I understand the intent here. The problem is introspection is not the right word. I think the word you’re looking for is rumination. And words matter. There’s an argument to be made that every productive act is downstream of introspection.

Introspection = neuroticism x narcissism x thumbsucking.

@lukas_ohl @skulthorp These shitty flats weren’t built to be classless, they weren’t built to foster a community. They were built to house the itinerant, the luckless and the lonely. And I have expended all the time I had set aside for listening to someone moan about having that pointed out to them.

@timabrahams @skulthorp “Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” There’s plenty to criticise about these flats, but the criticisms of them sometimes take a strangely class-based flavour (what’s wrong with recruitment agents living there?).

@lukas_ohl @skulthorp “Far nicer than living above a kebab shop in Willesden”. You’ll have to excuse people now and again if they want something good, actually properly good, rather than “not as shit as x”. These flats were thrown up, cost a bomb and leach off services built a century before.

@skulthorp Lots of people would love to live there, if it weren’t for the extortionate service charges. Decent size inside, energy-efficient, right next to the station, with pubs & shops nearby on Old York Road. Far nicer than living above a kebab shop in Willesden.

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If you are a journalist that wants to catapult the British Cræft Prize deeper into the world, I made a lovely press release. I will be your friend forever if you write about it! glen-jumbo-527.notion.site/British-Cr-ft-…

The cooling towers for Ferrybridge Power Station which were all demolished by 2022. The Church of St Edward at Brotherton in the foreground.