Vlugt-in-Bton

“All family dwellings have at least two living rooms and flexible multi-use space included.” Neave Brown 1966.
In a Post-covid, work-from-home context, you'd think new housing would catch up with 1960s council housing standards. We're nowhere close to it - even in private high end provision.

no.24. Cranbrook Estate, Lubetkin 1963. Another entry from the master of entry sequences. Avoiding the anonymous entry hall; the entry reaches out into the landscape welcoming residents and guiding the outside/inside transition.

no.23. Ham Common, Stirling Gowan, 1958. Entry lobby as captured exterior space. Upper level floats in continuous void linking all the front doors. A lesson in making an interior lobby that links front door to the outside.

no22. Interior lobbies with some care; gentle transition from outside to inside. not as luxurious as earlier Lubetkin projects but still showing interest in flow from city to home. One could even say there's a classical procession - loggia to rotunda - here.

Many of the examples are elected representatives. Their job is serious &about their consituents, state, country. The idiosyncacies communicate that they can't put their individuality aside (or desire for attention). As such, it communicates their personality: their selfishness. Not a good look.

Starmer to curb asylum seekers using human rights to avoid deportation Prime minister announces review of ECHR in a major U-turn

Still pandering to fascists and racists.

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Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’ In a combative speech, the prime minister will pledge to raise living standards and ‘face down’ threats of a volatile world

How to lose an election:

Keir Starmer to tell Labour conference growth is the ‘antidote to division’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So much for site and context specificity.

... And the building in the background? Can't beat a bit of concrete grid action.

True, I read it in an imaginary report I made up. That's enough evidence for me.

Hah hah. Funny! Becauss -- get it -- you could leave the dock of your village to go catch fish and be blown apart by guided missile fired by a nation with whom your country is not actually at war. You'd be dead and no fish for dinner! Hilarious.

We are the terrorists.
We are the shithole nation.

“For the work of many talented architects is seen to be more frequently an indulgence in individual virtuosity, rather than an attempt to correlate the problem at hand with the problem at large.” Neave Brown, 1963. Still true.

Neave Brown in 1967 describing a problem that has plagued architecture up to the present. Except coercion by the Modern Movement was replaced by coercion from high tech, post-modernism, deconstruction, superdutch, 'green architecture', parametricism, deleuzism, etc. Utterly sharp &brilliant writer.

After a summer break. No.21. Ham Common. Stirling/Gowan 1958. Interior lobby that is still as much outside as in. The transparency & light transforms a standard lobby, corridor & stair type entry into something beautiful. Maybe not a social space, but still celebrational.

Looks like a great exhibition, but ironic Lambeth has an exhibition celebrating the homes they've been trying to demolish for so long?!

Humanise wall my ass.

Heatherwick sucks and his work has killed people.

Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .

Agree.

Alexandra Road Retrofit: Stop Potential Fuel Poverty, Mould, and Inequality Camden Council’s proposed heating retrofit for the iconic Grade II* listed Alexandra Road Estate risks locking residents into permanently high bills, colder homes, damp and mould and greater inequalit...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...

Just in case people are unclear, putting 'hundreds of thousands' of human beings into camps is fucking evil. Are we all clear on that? You know when we talk about those lines before which we shouldn't draw parallels, this is one of those lines. This is evil, Farage is a fascist. These truths matter.

Iron brackets on doors definitely keeping up with the stone work.

Carbon release, what, who? Oh, nothing, let's demolish.

I've thought this for a long time. It's deliberate and they know exactly what they are doing. The last bit is apt - when do we act?

world leaders are meeting now to finalize a Global Plastics Treaty.

the majority of countries are prepared to cap plastic production.

but negotiations are about to collapse — because the US, Russia, and the Gulf States flooded the event with 234 oil industry lobbyists who are disrupting progress.

N.20. Alton East 1955. Rosemary Stjernstedt for LCC. Single Entry to lift/stair lobby. Model for most high-rise although many don't have the link to natural light or views out from the lobby. Small detail but helps orientation when landing 10 storeys up in the air.

n.19b. Highpoint II, 1938, Lubetkin. Another version, carport, generous lobby with different material treatment on floor. Lift/stair core hidden off to either side (as with Highpoint I). The idea is a transition that is not just something to rush through, avoid, or tolerate but meaningful.

n.19. Highpoint I, 1934, Lubetkin. Single entry w/carport. Luxurious lobby leading to two stair cores (which are largely hidden). Big, elongated space between front door & lift/stair core. Conscious making of meaningful buffer zone. Model largely fogetten, except in luxury high-rise.

Especially those in Belgium who made rather tasty beer.

no.18. Albert Hall Mansions. Hard boundary like Glasgow tenements, but two doors -1 for residents, 1 for servants. Proto-version of 'poor door'. Doors lead to separate circulation to flats. Clever but can it be used today? Maybe in block of live-work units w separate routes for resident&visitor?

Despite narrow dimensions residents personalise and inhabit parts of the shared route.