Stephen Parnell

The trick is how to force that cold front to appear. Still not good at that. My clouds are very full of water droplets right now but no cold front in sight

I liken my writing cycle to the hydrological cycle. Lots of reading, thinking, doing other things (evaporation) leads to a build up of clouds that have to hit a cold front in order for rain to pour down in the form of words. Which leads to rivers and lakes and seas for more evaporation for others.

I can't get enough screen real estate.

I find it so weird how the media reports death in the present tense. Surely if there's anything less present, it's the fact someone is no more. Hashtag autistic brain.

Lack of breath. 100% fatal.

I'm not getting anywhere. Sadly.

The legendary architect Frank Gehry didn't sadly die. He's just dead at 96.

I'd love to read it, how doing get a copy?

She's bloody brilliant smart that alderman lass

hope

Global coal generation FELL slightly in the first three quarters of 2025.

This drop, combined with rapid growth in wind and solar, meant that renewables have generated more of the world’s electricity than coal so far this year ⚡

#COP30 https://loom.ly/AK3Fn3I

When people do these seminars on failure and call for people to talk about how they've failed, do they actually want people who have overcome failure to succeed? Or genuine down-and-out given-up-all-hope failures who nobody wants to actually hear?

You would not believe how much a first class stamp is nowadays! Come to think of it, you would not believe that our class system is so omniscient and unquestioned that it even penetrates our mail!

Today, I wrote a letter and posted it in a post box.

Also interesting how architectural debate has changed since then so much (inevitably). In some ways better, some ways worse.

So interesting that out of Zaha, Rem, Krier bros, Jencks etc he is the most overlooked (no doubt cos of the direction his architecture went) but the most rigorous and thoughtful by far. "Classicism is not a Style" has more to say than first glance would suggest.

Finally writing up my research on 1980s Post-Modern AD and out of the whole circus, Demetri Porphyrios is the most civilised, intelligent, and interesting person. An absolute gent from whom we could all learn a lot.

Today I become the father of an adult. Where did time go?

Everybody's understairs cupboard eventually turns into a vacuum cleaner graveyard.

architectural drawings of a chair designed by Crosby

Theo Crosby: 100 Lives

An exhibition about designer Theo Crosby (1925-1994) is on now through 11 December at Osh Gallery, London
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More about the exhibition here: www.oshgallerylondon.com

And more about the Crosby archive here: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesi...

Architecture and I have not yet divorced, but I've definitely moved into the spare room.

Yesterday I was writing in my garden cabin and witnessed at close range a peregrine falcon catch a pigeon, take it to ground, kill it, and devour it over the next hour. The cabin turned into a bird hide and I became an amateur Attenburgh. Quite the most gory but beautiful thing I've ever seen.

When AI can connect to a printer and print something first time without 17 reboots, driver reinstallations and tantrums, only then will I be worried. I think we are several decades away from that.

You and me both. We should have chosen richer parents.

Why Did UChicago Destroy the Humanities? The answer is simple: to spend untold sums on useless buildings by starchitects.

A really interesting piece about the indebtedness of the University of Chicago and how it is destroying its academic reputation - killing the humanities subjects - so it can finance prestigious buildings by top architects.

www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Depends on the exposure of your pension to index-tracked ETFs. Generally not good for most people.

I have a 1979 Selmer Mark VI Soprano sax that I want to sell because I don't play it any more. Anybody know how one goes about selling expensive musical instruments these days? I bought it about 25 years ago!

cha-otic

Easily trumped by the Mercury. I had zero interest in it, and I love architecture too!

Thank you for bringing this report and HEPI's AI report to my attention - both interesting reads even though I've now left academia.