Matthew Lloyd Roberts

Poundbury on trial — Open City Join Open City tours for a critic-led tour of Poundbury

There is still time to get a ticket for our tour of Poundbury with the Ross Sharpe and Hilary Satchwell for @opencity-uk.bsky.social next Saturday 7th June, with options to join us on the train from London! The weather forecast is looking promising! open-city.org.uk/events/pound...

📢In the latest Deconstructed podcast, host @matthewlloydr.bsky.social R discuses the past, present and future of London's troubled Euston station with architectural historian Ewan Harrison🎙️🎧 shows.acast.com/opencity/epi...

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My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

📢 Our latest Deconstructed podcast sees @matthewlloydr.bsky.social joined by George Saumarez Smith to discuss St Anne's Limehouse designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. You can listen in all the usual places and also today at 2pm on Resonance 104.4 FM 🎙️🎧🏙️ www.resonancefm.com

Matthew and George stand in front of a baroque church. They are taking a selfie and smiling. They both wear glasses, and it is overcast.

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🎧 New episode of Deconstructed just dropped! 🎧
@matthewlloydr.bsky.social is
joined by George Saumarez Smith for a chat all about St. Anne's Limehouse, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. Listen on Acast: shows.acast.com/opencity

Got the amazing opportunity last week to visit the restoration work at St Stephen Walbrook courtesy of Luka Pajovic
— a brilliant effort to secure the future of the finest Wren parish church in London, and credit to Daedalus Conservation for impeccable work

So excited to be involved with this new podcast project over at @opencity-uk.bsky.social

YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities 2024 Architectural Vibe Check — AB+C 119

What were the vibes of 2024? We did our best to talk about some of them on our latest episode, from unionisation to Tehran to AI to The Sphere! out now wherever you get your podcasts or on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/OJ1VlSKegGA?...

2024 HIGHLIGHT

Neural networks & the architectural imagination
by @matthewlloydr.bsky.social

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🎧 The new De-constructed podcast from Open City sounds terrific, with Finsbury Health Centre a cracker of a building to kick-off. Bring on January!

Big congrats to host @matthewlloydr.bsky.social, listen to a trailer here: shows.acast.com/opencity/episo…

Time to bring a twitter series to Bluesky: Given the incredible number of 20th-century churches in Northrhine-Westphalia (the topic of my dissertation), I’m going post one or two every day. None of these images are mine, they're all credited in the alt text, and I'll take any down if asked

Hello 👋🏼 I’m India, an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at Cambridge. My research examines the architecture of the Inns of Court in the 17th century. I’m the Editor of the London Topographical Society Newsletter and I’m currently undertaking a curatorial research placement with Historic Royal Palaces.

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Heritage crime: Three Grade II listed 'Richardson Candle' street lamps - designed by Sir Albert Richardson in 1957 - have been stolen from Trumpington St in Cambridge.

Stolen-to-order or student prank? Police are urging anyone with any information to come forward.

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YouTube video by About Buildings + Cities How to be a Beaux-Arts Architect — AB+C 118

Hello Blue Sky! Check out our latest episode, on the Beaux-Arts school in 1920s America, on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts: youtu.be/Jj1anRYMmLI?...

Fucking love Nicholas Hawksmoor

oh my god, what awful news — always such a sweet man

The front cover of the Greater London Authority's 2024 Housing in London report, showing an abstract, illustrative map of London.

Today the GLA published its annual ‘Housing in London’ report data.london.gov.uk/housing/hous.... It has 70 pages of analysis and data visualisations and I think you should read the whole thing, but here is a thread with some of the key findings.

They do not sign leases, as we that are left sign leases:
Their landlords do not come into their flat with less than 24 hours notice, nor their boilers break down.
At the paying of the deposit, and in its retention
We will remember them

Had an incredible, chilly and almost hallucinogenic trip far east down the estuarine Thames on the Open City boat tour yesterday, led with inimitable vim by Benedict O'Looney, from Tudor naval yards to Ballymore's flatland — strongly recommend you book tickets for the next one

I just have a feeling that this is gonna be no good

remarkable to see the lonely island of the Express Building by Ellis & Clarke ft. Owen Williams floating on its own as part of large scale demolition of the surrounding office blocks (themselves barely 20 years old) to make room for BIG's wraparound pastiche deco stepback mess

Is it true that there are people who have accounts on Bluesky who are also fans of architecture?

unfortunately I haven't been able to drink coffee for most of my adult life because as an undergraduate I gave myself caffeine toxicity by drinking a dozen strong black coffees every day and now I can't touch it — I miss it so much

Want to cross the road safely? Disabled? Pushing a pram? Tough luck. What an utter, selfish disgrace. Seeing this every day now in London.

Thrilled to share the start of a new miniseries of the SAHGB podcast in which Jess Kelly and I think about the subject of 'Architecture and Media'! We are thinking about the way that buildings a shaped by their representation in different media: open.spotify.com/episode/3NQY...

I went on the Open City podcast this week! We discussed building houses on golf courses, YIMBY memes, Fratelli d'Italia at the Venice Biennale, Liverpool Street Station and the Tory lie that pro-Palestinian ceasefire protests are "hate marches" open.spotify.com/episode/7aYy...

Does anybody know (in English or French) any commentary/history on the process of the embankment of the Seine?

Trads Forget the Past at Their Peril - Failed Architecture Architectural traditionalists argue that their conception of beauty is objective and transhistorical. The past disagrees.

This surgical and merciless deconstruction of the 'trad architecture' claque by @matthewlloydr.bsky.social is simply a must-read by a must-follow.

failedarchitecture.com/trads-forget...

Thanks very much David!