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🇬🇧 (mainly) British Architecture & Art. All photography is my own 📸

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📍Inner Temple, City of London

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@boys_nicholas Given its immediate context, doing anything other than rebuilding it would be a complete disgrace. It’s one of the most beautiful parts of central Glasgow:

[Traditional Architect Birthdays @Trad_Arch_Bdays]

Happy birthday, Alfred Waterhouse.
July 19, 1830 in Liverpool, UK.
https://t.co/SkVuzd3Alu
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@AtMaturity @createstreets The Ritz Hotel, it’s a new extension.

[createstreets @createstreets]

100% new. A gift to London. Just unwrapped.

(Note how the windows are elegantly part O compliant, a luxury increasingly impossible for buildings in non-high value areas)

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

The Most Beautiful Churches in England 🧵

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@cheesyflirps Thanks. It’s in the Louvre.

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Another sunny day in Paris…

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Strange bunch? You mean, as polls consistently suggest, the majority of the population? I don’t necessarily advocate for strict historicism, but decorative ornament, symmetry, fractals and natural materials play an essential psychological role in architecture. Modernism rejected these things in favour of cold geometrical abstractions and grids, it’s an ideologically-driven approach to architecture which I hate entirely.

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@VicentBh1 It’s both, but mainly the architects.

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@samofsamshire He’s a modernist I guess, systematically trained to love disorder and ugliness. Very sad.

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@ScottMoore___ @SteveBettis1 Église Saint-Étienne-du-Mont

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A bit of Paris this afternoon ☀️

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@olgaMosSfo Yes 37 today was a bit much for me. Enjoy your trip!

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@othlooney It feels no unsafer than London or any other big European city. Some parts of the city feel more dodgy (the banlieues famously) but central Paris always feels very safe to me!

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@SteveBettis1 Thanks, the stonework in that church was simply incredible to look at.

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@HistoriaJack Thank you!

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Views along the Seine, Paris

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@GrumpyOldM79813 Bien sûr !

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The beautiful red brick buildings of Sloane Square this evening, London