Nigel Dale

Feasible? Urgent removal of panel-less Patera prototype from Royal Docks ahead of the wrecking ball.
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I like the new photo bottom right - credit?

Left, Patera Building prototype manufactured and built in Stoke-on-Trent in 1982, right, entry from architects' website indicating incorrectly that it was built in London in 1982.

Shipping containers present as unwelcoming. Good inexpensive architecture should be an expression of use and should add to a sense of belonging in streetscape. Containers do the opposite.

Once shipping containers have been adapted, there can be little cost benefit over developing a factory-produced small span component-based building in the style of Hopkins' SSSALU or Gullichsen & Pallasmaa Moduli 225. Containers have limitations and are architecturally uninspiring.

Liverpool - Hotel to be built out of shipping containers - BBC News.

About a century apart, take your pick: Will it be the AI generated clock (left) or the Bauhaus AEG clock (right)?

Well-recorded - the all to familiar story of The Potteries' heritage. I don't recognise the bottom right image?

This style of coffee mug appears on several TV chat shows (Denbyware Halo). I remembered it was the topic of a BBC Inside the Factory programme, presented by Gregg Wallace. But, the programme is "not available" on the BBC channels. The airbrushing out of GW denies us a good programme.

A "Pottery Trail" around the Six Towns could take in The Leopard. Such tours would guarantee a level of business - making renovation worthwhile.

Architects are Foster & Partners

Must be the ultimate "Cathedral of Football" - but isn't money the God to be worshiped here? @daveproudlove.bsky.social

It's a fabulous design - What AI can do must be very worrying to aspiring designers. Good luck with the book.

It might be AI because the strut supporting the seat on the far side isn't crisp - and in true perspective, it would be shorter than the nearside one - whereas it appears longer. That design is a winner AI or not.

Is the chair AI? If not and it's real, please let us know who designed it? It's a perfect composition.

There's something compelling about a backdrop of pine trees - Onkel Toms Hütte housing estate in Berlin, Bruno Taut 1926-32. Does it suggest a permanence due to its location in a well-established neighbourhood?

Gilbert Bayes Queen of Time clock 1931 Selfridges Oxford Street - image via Knowledge of London. Hard to appreciate the quality when viewed from the street below.

No interaction for the residents with the outside world? - balcony design has become crucial - otherwise the prison identity might realise an unintended consequence.

1958 for football, but engineer Oscar Faber had pioneered the cantilever stand at Northolt Park Racetrack from as early as 1929. His solution was to clad a steel structure to make it look like concrete.

The bio-domes here won't be as extensive as the originals at the Eden Project.

Although this possibly wasn't built as a pub - see bricked up first floor window - it is absurd to remove a familiar landmark by making it nondescript.

In those days, concrete was seen as a poor man's masonry. Hence the joint patterning which suggests it was masonry-built.

The towers were the last to go. As they were made from in-situ concrete, they couldn't be taken down brick by brick and relocated - a shame.

It’s an interesting story. Owen Williams was the engineer, Maxwell Ayrton the architect. Ayrton’s classicism, formality and symmetry was engineered in ferroconcrete by Williams - using fake columns where none was needed structurally. Later Williams designed the Empire Pool opposite to his style.

Art Deco was named after a French exhibition in 1925 two years after Wembley 1923 was completed, but more generally the interwar period is used as the timeframe from 1919. Take your pick.

You would need to be right-handed to order soup from the menu.

Jacobsen designed the cutlery for St Catz. I don't know about the china or glassware.

Yes, via the concrete ramps.

Yes, timber shrinks in a fire, steel expands. But, with battery fires, the high temperatures can be sustained for hours on end as routinely they are allowed to burn themselves out. Fires can spread from one vehicle to another.

"Choice" you say? I feel as if I no longer have any.