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Hotspur Press fire prompts calls for action to protect historic buildings Hotspur Press fire prompts calls for action to protect historic buildings

The Victorian Society has called for ‘meaningful measures’ to be implemented to protect historic buildings after Manchester’s Hotspur Press building was severely damaged in a fire last week.

hello bluesky it’s been a while

Social housing in London by Levitt Bernstein

Built to Passivhaus standards so energy bills will be next to nothing. Ground floor homes have a front and back garden, and apartments above are dual aspect.

Windows feel a bit small, but lots to love!

www.dezeen.com/2025/02/14/l...

Sensational, spiky and doomed: we’re at Minster Court. On @grindrod.bsky.social’s podcast, Monstrosities Mon Amour, I talk about Minster Court and PoMo. Grim plans are afoot to destroy this gem and build new offices in the International Monied Wherever style.
www.johngrindrod.co.uk/podcast

coming on here like twice a day just to check oomfs posts that’s it lol

Exquisite detailing in this terracotta mid-rise block in Tehran by Zandigan Architects

Interestingly, this is an office, not apartments

what am i meant to use this for now idk

ur rizz is insane i could never

Public transport needs to be 365/366 days a year if you want people to give up their cars

Images © Historic England Archive

Images © Historic England Archive

Images © Historic England Archive

NEWS // ‘The Brutalist church above a Tesco’: Broadmead Baptist Church in Bristol has been Grade II listed, thanks to support from C20 Society.
Designed by architect Ronald H Sims and built 1967-69, its a highly unusual example of post-war church architecture.

➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/the-bru...

happy birthday btw!!

Starmer said his government would be like New Labour's 'Clause IV on steroids.'

Seems Streeting's take on this is NHS PFI version 2.

But just like steroids, any plans for privatisation in the NHS should come with a health warning: they may cause dangerous side effects.

I write for @metro.co.uk:

Yes! 👏👏👏

I thought we had abandoned the ‘skyscraper as a piece of urban sculpture’ design approach?

I can’t help but think how wasteful this is in a global climate and housing crisis….

By Zaha Hadid Architects in Shenzhen

_Conservative peer Lord True...said the legislation risked “destabilising” the House of Lords with “far-reaching consequences”, claiming that the 26 seats reserved for Church of England bishops would be the next to be abolished._

Good. More separation of church and state is only a good thing.

I can’t help but think this is a downgrade

Before After

City Hall café at night

The dizzying staircase that faced the river

Fisheye view of The Scoop, City Hall and Tower Bridge

City Hall steps out

Last night Southwark Planning Committee voted to approve the significant reworking of London's former seat of government, City Hall, now named 110 Queens Walk

Here are some photos of Foster's building in its heyday

#photography #architecture #London

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📖 The latest issue of C20 Magazine has just started hitting members' doormats, and includes some fantastic features on our new Coming of Age campaign, Carlo Scarpa's Venice, Saltdean Lido reborn, the lampooning archi-cartoons of Louis Hellman, two Stateside mid-century homes, and much more...

Labour’s big majority is fragile and it has weak mandate for change, says report Exclusive: Election strategy of ‘not being the Tories’ is a time bomb, says Labour-linked thinktank Compass Keir Starmer’s focus on winning over voters from the centre-right has delivered Labour a large but fundamentally shallow electoral win and a weak…

Labour’s big majority is fragile and it has weak mandate for change, says report

Planning reforms will end development chaos, says Angela Rayner Officials will be able to rubberstamp development plans without local authority permission under the changes.

The biggest obstacle to building more homes (that people can actually afford - that part always gets left out!) is not council planning committees.

It's the systematic underfunding and weakening of local authorities, and Labour is to blame just as much as the Tories.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Environmental row escalates as historic Marks & Spencer store in London is set for demolition Campaigners argue rebuilding Orchard House will release harmful embedded carbon and are calling on government to promote refurbishment over destruction

“M&S should sell the present building to someone who can see its conversion potential”

C20 Chair @hughpearman.bsky.social in The Art Newspaper on the growing backlash to the Secretary of State’s controversial demolition decision.

www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/06/e...

artist impression of a 12 storey apartment block made from timber and other biobased materials in Malmo, Sweden

photo of construction site, showing a crane and CLT mass timber structure of the new 12 storey apartment block

Photo of two people looking at freshly installed straw insulated timber wall panels

Pushing boundaries in sustainable construction: The Hyllie project in Malmö/ Sweden 🇸🇪

A 12 storey apartment block constructed with CLT mass timber superstructure and @ecococon.bsky.social straw wall system.

✅ high performace
✅ healthy
✅ low impact

One year ago today.

lmaooo i thought putin might’ve pressed the button lol

i heard it and thought it was gonna be smth else 😭😭

No plan for more tax rises, Starmer tells BBC The PM says voters can judge him at the next general election on whether their living standards have improved.

No plan for more tax rises, says UK PM Starmer.

Wrong pledge.

Taxes need to rise on the rich, cut for the poor to reduce inequality.

Top 10% have 57% of the wealth, bottom 50% own less than 5%, poorest 10% have 0.02%.

Can't build good society on injustice.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

and people cheering this on just because of the notion that it ‘gets britain building’ or some yimby bullshit like that is pathetic

not a good thing btw, sets a bad precedent for not reusing reusable buildings. shouldn’t have happened

BREAKING NEWS //Angela Rayner has granted permission to demolish M&S Oxford St, overturning a decision by the previous Secretary of State.

The chance to set a vision for a more sustainable and creative Britain that reuses its built-heritage, has been squandered. Green growth? Not on this evidence.

keep forgetting this place exists