Cross Street Architects

Creative upstarts based in the UK Northwest. Architecture/Interiors/Planning. Creative Solutions to Creative Problems./ARB / RIBA / Part-time tutor @LivUniArch

[HOUSE LOVERS @hutdesigns]

A sand-side pool designed to mimic a natural beach shore 🏖️

[The Iran Spectator @IR_Media24]

Netanyahu: "There is no place for violence, not against political leaders and not against anyone."

🇮🇷IRAN: "Look who’s preaching. You’ve killéd 50+ political leaders in 4 countries and thousands of childrén.."

[Athletico Mince @AthleticoMince]

Why Peter Beardsley wasn't chosen for the World In Motion rap...

(animation by @ben_pics)

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Add your name to those of lawyer Michael Mansfield, former General Charlie Herbert, barrister Daniel Machover, genocide scholar Martin Shaw, Yanis Varoufakis, surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah, MPs J.Corbyn, J.McDonnell, Diane Abbott and many others, and sign here 👇

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Superdrug removes skincare brand Ahava as suspected cosmetic ingredients seen in West Bank Israeli settlement.

Ahava, was sold online by Superdrug until mid-March and denies that it owns a site in a West Bank Israeli settlement.

Full story: https://t.co/RpihNnSxjY

[Sci-Fi Archives @SciFiArchives]

Art by Moebius

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

The most concerning omission from the latest disclosures is information about the Government’s meetings with Palantir, which were organised by Peter Mandelson.

Palantir’s ever-increasing involvement in our NHS and access to our health data is deeply worrying. It’s an issue I’ve raised many times. A company which supports Israel’s military operations in Gaza, Trump’s ICE raids, and advocates NHS privatisation should be nowhere near our health service.

The Government must commit to exercising the break clause in its contract with Palantir in 2027 as a matter of urgency.

#NoPalantirInTheNHS #SayNoToPalantir

[Cats with Aura 😺 @catwithaura]

Why did my cat walking through the ring light look so menacing

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

I’m glad there is outrage in MSM about Piker and Uygur being banned from UK

But where were they when top independent journalist Asa Winstanley had his home raided - and devices seized - by UK police in October 2024?

Not a word about it has ever appeared in a UK paper. Crazy

[Harriet Williamson @harriepw]

Read the full report here: https://t.co/XbfPUPd6qS

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons.

North Korea and Israel.

One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide.

It isn't North Korea.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

it was worth being banned from the uk to get the javier bardem notice

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am horrified that a car has been deliberately set alight outside the home of the family of Salma Yaqoob, a wonderful prominent anti-racist and peace campaigner in Birmingham.

I hope the police take this shocking incident seriously. Sending my solidarity to Salma & her family.

[Richard Bowler @RichardBowler1]

Strange how living with foxes for 15 years and before that, many years in the field photographing them, makes my views invalid. However a farmer with his livelihood invested in the discussion is the only valid opinion. Double standards don't you think. #FoxOfTheDay

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

People like me take great pains to avoid coming across as antisemitic in our criticisms of Israel, and then Jewish Zionists go to these events all “Yes we Jews need to be actively manipulating western institutions in order to deceive everyone and control society.”

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The IDF has been accused of horrific war crimes in Gaza by the UN Human Rights Council & Amnesty International.

It is just common sense that those involved in war crimes should be held to account.

[Sir Rowley Gherkin QC @TransChicken2]

Chaps!
(yes, ladies, you can scroll on now...)

Here is why you keep that timber.

25 years ago Scarborough Library decided that it's ancient oak shelving was not compliant with the latest UK Disability Discrimination Laws.

That Scarborough Library had been fitted out by public subscription in the 1880's. At the height of civic pride. If the Oak was workable in 1880... it might have come from a tree that was felled in 1850. And if it was felled in 1850.. .it may have been 500+ years old at that point. Maybe more.

The entire building was oak clad. All of the book shelves were of oak. I've been reliably informed it is Japanese oak.
I was lucky enough to hear that ANYONE could claim a shelving unit for £50. Rather than the council pay for them ending up in landfill.

The shelving units were 9 feet long by 6 feet wide. They weighed about 1 ton each.

I claimed two. For £100.

You had to dismantle them yourself and transport them away, yourself. You had 48 hours. Saturday morning until Sunday evening.
It was an immense job. They were not like units you get today. They were made, in situ, by craftsmen. In 1880.
We all knew we were vandalising the old stuff. But anything we didn't take would be put into the tip.

They were nailed. Not screwed. We took hammers to them.

I've carried that oak timber around the country since. I gave half of it to my Dad, who was a Chippy. He made things out of it that are still magnificent. The nail holes from its previous life give it more life.
I have many things my Dad made from it. I love them.

Sadly, my Dad died in 2010 and a cousin realised the value of the Oak and sold a lot of what was being stored in my Mum's cellar...

But I still got a lot of it back after my Mum died. Big bits. Bits you cannot buy any more. Wide bits of Japanese Oak. I have them stored under my sofa. And my bed. Upright behind doors.

I used one short bit as a grave marker for my cat. Oak doesn't rot in the ground. It preserves itself.
I still have about 1/2 a ton left. I think.

Of the two biggest bits, I made a table for my allotment.
Ironically, the legs of the table were found in the boot of my Mum's old car. I had those bits of table leg just hanging about for 3 years.

I now have a table. If the Oak cost me £100...in the year 2000, it is worth it.

I know this isn't everyone's post.. but... damn. 25 years of holding onto timber you got for a song! That's a blessing.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I'm sure those well known defenders of Jewish people though will be along with more Antisemitic caricatures before too long of which the establishment will still have absolutely nothing to say weeks later....