Samizdata quote of the day
If you want to preserve a building, buy it. – Stephen Green, in a short Instapundit post, linking to this piece about an attempt to preserve a “Tom’s Diner” whose owner wants to demolish it.
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Looking back at Christmas Day
It’s now that time of the year between Christmas and the New Year, when we here sometimes do big postings with lots of photos. Usually, these have been retrospective looks back at the year nearly...
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Architecture wars
Robinson Meyer tweets: If most Americans hate architectural abstraction and Mies-inspired modernism, then there’s still a compromise solution. It’s simple: All federal buildings should be designed in...
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At least a few federal agency buildings could be greatly improved by the complete omission of entrances. – Commenter Ferox
View ArticleOn why feminists ought to be glad about skyscrapers
Asks the headline above this Guardian piece by Leslie Kern: Do cities have to be so sexist? Let me ask a similar question: Do skyscrapers have to be so tall and yet so comparatively thin? Do...
View ArticleAn architect is struck off
I originally read this story about the striking off of the architect Peter Kellow by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) on page 19 of my paper copy of today’s Times. The headline reads “Architect...
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Time to short Amazon?
Brian Micklethwait has long observed that a company building a large new vanity HQ is highly corelated with the long march into decline That said, they have the world’s governments slaughtering their...
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A sad walk around Berlin
Our late colleague and friend Brian Micklethwait was very good at making people think. In particular he was very good at making me think, and even at times making me write. Often he would say something...
View ArticleMercedes, cladding and what Brian Micklethwait would say
Lewis Hamilton says he had ‘nothing to do’ with Mercedes deal with Grenfell firm A little bit of background. A company called Kingspan sold some of the cladding that was largely responsible for the...
View ArticleRIP Professor Alice Coleman 1923-2023
Alice Coleman, geographer whose study of failed council estates impressed Mrs Thatcher – obituary Alice Coleman, who has died aged 99, was a professor of geography at King’s College London whose book...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day – Frank Lloyd Wright edition
The story goes that Frank Lloyd Wright was once summoned to testify in a lawsuit. When he took the witness stand, a lawyer asked what his occupation was. He answered, “I am the world’s greatest...
View Article‘¡Afuera!’– Presidente-elegido Milei on the Pope, the murderous Castros and...
Probably the most important man of the 21st Century, if only for his potential to do good, Argentine President-elect (as I write) Javier Milei sat down with Tucker Carlson for an interview, (excerpt...
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