Create Streets Foundation

Charity supporting urban design research, neighbourhood planning and community-led design across the UK.

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Come & Dare To Draw with the marvellous @shepherdmg on the next & much-loved @CreateStreetsFN one day drawing course …

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Is the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in Paris (1913) one of the world’s most enjoyable Art-Deco buildings? Yes argues @boys_nicholas in @Telegraph

“As Classical as it is proto-art deco. The architect, Auguste Perret, pioneered concrete architecture, perhaps unsurprisingly as his family firm specialised in reinforced concrete construction. A concrete building in central Paris may sound heretical, but do not be deterred. It is an elegant building with deeply recessed windows, coffered pilasters, a sinuous bay window, an overhanging cornice and bas-reliefs of Apollo.” You can …

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Thank God the Victorians created our railway stations and hurrah for the seamless experience of arriving back in Britain by train.

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Walking is good for you! Who knew?

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

What should Limoges do with their town hall?
1 Rebuild it as was?
2 Rebuild as an 'honest' modernist building?
3 Leave it as an 'honest' ruin (the National Trust approach)
4 Rebuild it even bigger & better & more beautiful?

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Why is the Chrysler Building so great I ask for @Telegraph?

The Platonic ideal of an art deco skyscraper & a temple to the motor car. Stylised hubcaps, fenders and hoods encrust the façade. American eagles, new-world gargoyles, glare out protectively at the 61st floor. Above …

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The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is the world’s greatest shopping arcade. It gets everything right: location, innovation & beautification. Linking Milan’s Duomo with her opera house, La Scala, it brilliantly deploys Victorian glass & iron know-how to span soaring distances…

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Come and draw with us ... The @CreateStreetsFN much loved "Dare To Draw" course with @shepherdmg returns in the new year and we also launch our first Classical By Design two day course into drawing the orders. Still a few places left

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In case you missed it, SOME GOOD NEWS !!!

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Yes.

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... or so I argue in @unherd today after yesterday's shocking and upsetting events. Please do read and share ! https://t.co/Hyji1CcypQ

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A lot to love about Lincoln

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Urban Designer / Street Designer wanted: help build places people will love for generations.
You’ll shape real streets and new neighbourhoods, and help change how Britain builds. Find out more and apply: https://t.co/u43SFbPa7q
#GentleDensity #Beauty

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‘Good things,’ wrote Roger Scruton ‘are easily destroyed, but not easily created.’ He had in mind the ‘collective assets’ of ‘peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit and the security of property’ but he might equally have been writing about architecture.

Yesterday...

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It’s so heartbreaking…

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This. And Ely. It's breath-snatching. This is what I wrote about it for @Telegraph recently in my list of world's greatest buildings: https://t.co/LtcWaNCc86

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Make it bigger, better and more beautiful with more bedrooms. (This type of beautiful and popular intensification should be pre-approved by right by councils for millions of new streets). The good news is that THIS IS ALREADY LEGAL. Here is...

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Good can be very, very simple. A wall with three holes. The deep window & door reveals, the load-bearing brick walls, the generous & large windows, the sash windows, all elevate the simple into the delightful. Needless to say recent malign changes in British building regulations would make this much harder to build today. You can ….

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Splendid city.

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Wide roads & faceless towers. How to diminish place-appeal in one image.