Brian Miller

this is a really special path - I recommend taking a cab and starting at the church at the top, walking down to the end and continuing to the equally remarkable Certosa di Bologna, a porticoed city of a cemetery

all I want is this week’s log of Florsheim’s social media team slack channel

a reminder that Redzepi is not a credible source when he makes announcements about the future of his restaurant and his role there

oh for sure super relaxed, super lived-in

a vision to demolish a 2019 RSHP-designed museum to make room for new museums gives away the neoclassical game

reaching 500k doors in DC seems like a very ambitious goal when the city only has 368,736 housing units (based on 2024 Census Bureau info)

fought it tooth and nail but they’re about to realize it was the best business development money they ever spent

cocktails at Monsieur and dinner at Lord’s

some panels at the 44th Annual Medieval Studies Conference at Fordham

permanent collection at the Met

weekend in medieval New York, starting with Spectrum of Desire at the Cloisters

they should built viewing towers next to his buildings so people can see them as intended

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they gotta implement the same thing with Berghain for basically the same reasons, you should be required to show proof you’ve been to Renate or Tresor first

Selected door handles of modern churches here in North-Rhine Westphalia

Newfoundland/Labrador accent tiktok is a favorite, hope I get to hear it in person someday

also driven from the top as C-suite roles require quickly developing a broad understanding of many things and taking decisive action on direction while lower level roles are responsible for fine-grained analysis and detailed execution where small flaws become apparent and frustrating

I hope they do BELLY/GUMMO.

a resi conversion here would have fixed the housing market

oh phew I’d been avoiding it for fear of musical cheesiness

architecture writing is so ridiculously obtuse, I do this for a living and I still had to google to figure out a “discreet residential intervention” is an apartment building

tragedy up north as maglev trains derail on curves designed for Kinkade rendering aesthetics

student-level thinking, beyond embarrassing for the head of RIBA

just give me a Gonzo/Julio Torres bit

this Washingtonian piece is doing nothing to change my impression that the current wave of caviar exists only to add a veneer of luxury to foods for people who have the palette of children

washingtonian.com/2026/01/29/a...

turns out my year-old prediction about the Kennedy Center’s events calendar underestimated the programming cuts

what is the the Italian impulse to orient groups of four chairs orthogonally rather than diagonally in the center of rooms, it’s terribly uninviting and it makes for worse circulation paths

(first image is of Palazzo Talia by Luca Guadagnino)

KLF fans will note these are lesser versions of Jimmy Cauty’s mobile sonic weaponry (which he considered neither art nor music)

with the way hotel projects work, so many people had to sign off on this, and they should all be embarrassed

dc.eater.com/dining-repor...