Possibly the worst building built in Cork in recent years: a confused patchwork of glass, stone(?), a Frankenstein façade and a roofline verging on parody. Oddly Incoherent and ultimately poor architecture. Thankfully, stronger work is emerging on the North Channel!

These are my twelve favourite landscape painters from the 1950s to the present (not entirely in order of preference, but almost...) 1. Nigerian painter Abiodun Olaku (born 1958)

☀️Check out this month's Editors Choice from architect & writer @ConorEnglish6 August is "a time to tumble through history, poke around in the corners of clever old buildings, and chat with the brilliant enthusiasts who know all the best stories." ➡️🔗 https://t.co/gNGvhj3dNE

NEWS: C20 has supported an application by grassroots campaigners to list the former Central YMCA building on Great Russell Street, London – the site of the world’s first YMCA. Designed by Michael Mulchinet of the Elsworth Sykes Partnership and built between 1971-77, the

🚨 Reuse Them or Lose Them: C20's Risk List campaign 2025 is here! From a Millennium pop music museum in Sheffield to a Bauhaus-inspired 1930s department store in Bradford, a 1970s brutalist football stand in Newcastle, to a 1980s ‘High-Tech Nissen hut in London.

"The money in Britain always seems to flow in one direction. If these outstanding buildings were in London, would they already have been restored or rehabilitated?" Read about C20's Risk List in the Guardian, and our fight to protect modern heritage. https://t.co/VW61NvtQoq

Splendid small exhibition about the Great Bardfield artists as muralists at the Fry Gallery, discovering many unknown artworks by Bawden, Ravilious, Rowntree etc., packs a huge punch in one room. Get to Saffron Walden!

Boots Factory, Beeston, Nottinghamshire 1930-38 Owen Williams https://t.co/0rOhy9gCaT

Daily Express Building, Fleet Street 1932 Owen Williams, with Ellis & Clarke https://t.co/3FhJm1kfrm

It can be done. Demand more of your developers.

Merchant’s Quay and St. Patrick’s Street pictured in 1985 #Cork #Ireland

I think that mundane catholic postwar architecture is highly underrated

cosmati designs from the basilica of s. maria in cosmedin

This picture is so Scandinavian 😎 The president of Finland and the PMs of Norway, Sweden and Denmark dining together - I love it.

An effect of the Xerox process was that it gave the scratchy, outlined look of the film (which was also inspired by British illustrator Ronald Searle). This proved so popular that Disney movies followed that style for the next 15 or so years. 22/34

It was a shame to see this beautiful early 19th-century shopfront fascia panel disappear during the week as quickly as it was uncovered on a Protected Structure next to the nationally significant City Assembly House on South William Street 🧵

When the newly qualified teacher gets a days subbing with the ‘difficult class.’ #Dáil

O'Reilly's Fish Centre, Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Ireland.

The Shard looks more evil and menacing than festive to be honest

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