Ben Jones
@ben_patio
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This whole affair w/ the secret tunnel under 770 got me thinking about the building itself & the fact that a mid-century Tudor revival house (Edwin Kline, 1940) has become a symbol of Chabad. So indelible is that symbol apparently, that it’s been recreated all around the world🧵
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Now something of a pilgrimage site for architects, it is near-impossible to photograph the place in any way which is not both cliché & instructed by the form. This is a playful attempt to imagine how the Pavilion can be captured & in an unreliable way. https://t.co/EkItDNcCwK
Kind of like bird watchers except no birds. Architects at Barcelona pavilion in search of the perfect shot.
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Have public consultation comments on planning applications always been this toxic or is my tolerance just getting lower?
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In retrospect this was the tweet which told us everything we needed to know about where things were heading
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Local planning dept taking its unique blend of utter incompetence and petty bureaucracy to new levels recently. Like some sort of performance art
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Printer repair guy: "There used to be five of us covering this region, there's just me now. No-one prints anything any more."
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"Your planning application is invalid because the drawings 'Existing Elevations' & 'Proposed Elevations' do not have north points. Please add a north point to these drawings."
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Boomboxes with built in keyboards. Sanyo KBX-7, Sharp MR990, Casio CK-200, Fisher SC-300. https://t.co/rnaDaxOWgV
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All going according to plan. https://t.co/UCXAt11gyV
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People are taking out loans and turning to crowdfunding to pay private medical bills of up to £15,000.
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Oh no, Marco Goldschmied has died. Despite his fearsome reputation he was a good man and I've still got all the books he gave me when I was a youngster interested in architecture
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Local Authority have cut H's school transport funding. Another appeal coming up. So tiresome having to fight for everything
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Stand down all. Little fucker was in the obvious place that everyone could swear they had checked 100 times
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The intensity of the heat lifting north out of Spain & Portugal is simply staggering.
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A butterfly flaps its wings in the US housing market in 2008 and
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