Barbican@55 @Barbicanat50
The iconic City of London estate celebrated its 50th anniversary in July 2019. Here’s to the next 50 years! Please follow and retweet. City of London Joined May 2019-
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It is true that tall buildings have surged massively in the past decade or so and at the same time the housing crisis has catastrophically deepened... yet will a public poll on every tower really make any difference? 🏙️architectsjournal.co.uk/news/thinktank…
Our first sighting this year of an orange tip butterfly.
@Barbicanat50 @ShravanJoshi / unrelated to that *construction* site 🤔💭 but pic📸 brings to mind ~ the fact that it’s just over a year since #CMA fined 10 construction firms (including #Erith & #Keltbray) a total of “nearly £60 million for breaking competition law by bid rigging” gov.uk/government/new…
@Barbicanat50 @ShravanJoshi / unrelated to that *construction* site 🤔💭 but pic📸 brings to mind ~ the fact that it’s just over a year since #CMA fined 10 construction firms (including #Erith & #Keltbray) a total of “nearly £60 million for breaking competition law by bid rigging” gov.uk/government/new… https://t.co/HvluVmW9vx
We object strongly to this MONSTER TOWER proposed for Commercial St. Follow thread to learn how you can register your objection
An exhibition at Hamburg's MK&G museum examines the global water crisis and what architects and designers can do to help. Here, curator Jane Withers selects five highlights from the show. dezeen.com/2024/04/29/mkg…
@guardian @PhinHarper @michaelgove "The construction sector accounts for 62% of waste: that could be drastically cut if we chose refurbishment over demolition" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"a decision that is completely incompatible with their own new sustainability policy" Secretary of State intervenes in London Wall West site - The Twentieth Century Society c20society.org.uk/news/secretary…
Ask the next London Mayor to make the capital a greener city by supporting the More Natural Capital Coalition’s top ten environmental calls to action. Pledge #1: More trees for London. Help us create a #TreeRing around London #LoveGreenSpaces #treeweek #trees #londontrees
Good news - we’re now official members of @PollinatingLT @FinchleyPollin
Housing activists have occupied the front of London's City Hall to demand that Peabody refurbishes, rather than demolishes, the Lesnes Estate.
One of the things I have learned from living in two modernist council estates (Brownfields Estate by Goldfinger and Vanbrugh Park Estate by Chamberlin Powell & Bon) is just how wrong this gross and patronising nonsense that working class people can't appreciate good design is.
One of the things I have learned from living in two modernist council estates (Brownfields Estate by Goldfinger and Vanbrugh Park Estate by Chamberlin Powell & Bon) is just how wrong this gross and patronising nonsense that working class people can't appreciate good design is.
#CityNatureChallenge20224 @iGiGL @BunhillHeritage @FCityGardens @CoLCityGdns on a cold and damp Sunday but it was exciting to see this species of tiger crane fly on a alkanet leaf.
Thanks to @CityPoliceCops Constables Lucy Hawes and Daniel McKeown for caring for the Household Cavalry wounded horses @CityPolice @cityoflondon @deb_oliver @HelenFentimen
Thanks to @CityPoliceCops Constables Lucy Hawes and Daniel McKeown for caring for the Household Cavalry wounded horses @CityPolice @cityoflondon @deb_oliver @HelenFentimen
Advocating coups, Civil War and (arguably) Fascism used to be frowned-on. #America please wake up. However awful @JoeBiden is (and dear God he is a string-puppet), he is better than the vile inhumanity hovering around @realDonaldTrump.
Advocating coups, Civil War and (arguably) Fascism used to be frowned-on. #America please wake up. However awful @JoeBiden is (and dear God he is a string-puppet), he is better than the vile inhumanity hovering around @realDonaldTrump.
@cityoflondon @CSkidmoreUK Even Lizz Truss would wince at this level of hutzpah given the City of London's "position" is that there is no climate emergency!
Last Wednesday saw the first visit to the Garden of students from @bartlett_landscape, @bartlettucl as part of our new collaboration. The students will have a practical experience of #BiodiversityEnhancement and we will share their mapping and monitoring skills.
My latest newsletter is on London Wall and a 1955 design book, Modern Office Buildings
Today the Select Committee has published its Special Report. The report has highlighted the lack of legitimacy which looms over this plan to build over an historic public park, Victoria Tower Gardens, and heaps criticism on Ministers' handling of procedural matters.
BarbicanWildlifeGroup @BarbicanWLG
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BarbicanQuarterAction @BarbicanQuarter
722 Followers 1K Following A campaign group led by citizens from the Barbican neighbourhood to contest London Wall West and future threats to the culture and heritage of this area
BarbicanCityOfLondon @BarbicanL
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Lesley Scoble @scoble_lesley
499 Followers 932 Following Artist / loves nature + wildlife, music, photography, poetry, and writing the occasional blog.
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Sarah Gaventa @sgaventa
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Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex
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Barbican Library @barbicanlib
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BarbicanCityOfLondon @BarbicanL
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Residential building of 30 apartments, Tehran By Alireza Mashhadimirza
Our first sighting this year of an orange tip butterfly.
Bombus terrestris pollinating the strawberries in the @TCESEastLondon garden this afternoon. Also loads of red mason bees and hairy footed flower bees pollinating the apples and currants. Having mason bee boxes close to the trees really helps.
@Barbicanat50 @ShravanJoshi / unrelated to that *construction* site 🤔💭 but pic📸 brings to mind ~ the fact that it’s just over a year since #CMA fined 10 construction firms (including #Erith & #Keltbray) a total of “nearly £60 million for breaking competition law by bid rigging” gov.uk/government/new…
Major investigation by #CMA running since 2019 focusing on some of the big names you see on your local #SquareMile demolition building site hoardings including #Keltbray & #Erith. ▫️full details / @CMAgovUK provisional findings gov.uk/government/new… ⬇️ See @peterproperty tweet
This has got to be the best student housing in the world, right? Fondation de Chine, Paris, by Atelier FCJZ and Coldefy
no-one is objecting to a new housing development being built near them because they think it will look like the national theatre lol.
IMO the biggest thing holding back mass building and development in the UK is that the last time the UK went on an enormous surge of building, they built stuff like this. Architects like this stuff, normal people hate it:
An exhibition at Hamburg's MK&G museum examines the global water crisis and what architects and designers can do to help. Here, curator Jane Withers selects five highlights from the show. dezeen.com/2024/04/29/mkg…
@guardian @PhinHarper @michaelgove "The construction sector accounts for 62% of waste: that could be drastically cut if we chose refurbishment over demolition" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"a decision that is completely incompatible with their own new sustainability policy" Secretary of State intervenes in London Wall West site - The Twentieth Century Society c20society.org.uk/news/secretary…
Ask the next London Mayor to make the capital a greener city by supporting the More Natural Capital Coalition’s top ten environmental calls to action. Pledge #1: More trees for London. Help us create a #TreeRing around London #LoveGreenSpaces #treeweek #trees #londontrees
Good news - we’re now official members of @PollinatingLT @FinchleyPollin
Sitting there just hating it…
“Normal people hate this stuff”
IMO the biggest thing holding back mass building and development in the UK is that the last time the UK went on an enormous surge of building, they built stuff like this. Architects like this stuff, normal people hate it:
One of the things I have learned from living in two modernist council estates (Brownfields Estate by Goldfinger and Vanbrugh Park Estate by Chamberlin Powell & Bon) is just how wrong this gross and patronising nonsense that working class people can't appreciate good design is.
IMO the biggest thing holding back mass building and development in the UK is that the last time the UK went on an enormous surge of building, they built stuff like this. Architects like this stuff, normal people hate it:
Along with Free School Meals for all London primary school children for the next 4 years, another good reason to vote @SadiqKhan @LondonLabour on 2/5 Mayor/Assembly elections. If you value it, vote for it!
taxi-point.co.uk/post/mayor-of-… GMB welcomes this range of measures which would make a big difference to the everyday lives of hardworking drivers 👇🏼 ✅PHV driver representatives and unions to keep workers and their customers safe ✅More access to toilet and kitchen facilities as part…
Spent an absolutely wonderful day with @AndrewMillham by the Thames Estuary. It’s a remarkable landscape, rich in history, culture and biodiversity, and Andrew has an extensive knowledge of it. At Two Tree Island we heard a Nightingale - I’m happy to be corrected if it isn’t!
#CityNatureChallenge20224 @iGiGL @BunhillHeritage @FCityGardens @CoLCityGdns on a cold and damp Sunday but it was exciting to see this species of tiger crane fly on a alkanet leaf.
@AMoncaster @SAVEBrit @Kevin_McCloud @SustainableTall @ArchitectsCAN @heritage_lizzie @urban_splash
@MrGeorgeClarke @GeorgeMonbiot #retrofirst ✍️Please write ASAP to the SoS ([email protected]) to call-in the City Corporation's plans! These buildings are safe and can be retained and refurbished for future generations. Campaign updates here: londonstartshere.co.uk/latest-news
Arriving early for a luncheon engagement in the Tower of London area, we had time to look for Bees, Hoverflies &c. in the Tower Hill Gardens: and were lucky enough find some of each on the Buttercups and Daisies...
A Time ⋅ A Place: Each ‘Car of the Year’ from 1964 to 1982, paired with a bulding of the same year. Photographs by Daniel Hopkinson. Research by architect John Piercy Holroyd. Join us in our #crowdfunding campaign to bring this unique book to life! buff.ly/3UtuJb8
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