Romeo Macintosh

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

#HighWycombe @JLLUK @BucksCouncil @Hawkins_Brown @QuinnLondonLtd Buckinghamshire Council, another pleasant surprise! Keep it coming, please.

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

@Perky_43 Calling all alcoholics!

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

@CheltCivicSoc Some mistake, surely? That's not residential, it's a prison.

[Elle Lookbook @EvaLovesDesign]

Such a beautiful English pub

The Roebuck, on great Dover street in Southwark.

A true Victorian gem built in 1892, with huge windows, ornate decorate moldings.

[Cheltenham Civic Society @CheltCivicSoc]

This is beautiful.

If shopfronts were still this attractive, would town centre vitality be better?

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

@mike56200 I'm curious whether Walsall Council have contacted you about your efforts?

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

David Altrath's photographs of the former Stasi Headquarters in Berlin

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

May 27, 1849: The Great Hall at Euston station opened in London.

It was controversially torn down and revamped in the 1960s.

Improvement? I think not.

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

@GBullstein Who will buy the laptop with the snapped off screen?

[Mike The Litterpicker @mike56200]

@FionaMoinuddin Look up the Broken Window Theory, kiddy scribble like this adds nowt to an area, any explanation that it does is so facile it's easily refuted. Its easy to clean/paint depending on the surface, I do it all the time. Like here in Walsall town centre which is free from tagging

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

Read more about this building on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list since 2007.

We are grateful to CAV Aerial for the drone footage.

[The Victorian Society @thevicsoc]

Part of the roof of the Old Town Hall in Sheffield has collapsed. It was on our first Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2007. It has been empty since 1995.
@VicSoc_SYorks and Friends of the Old Town Hall have been campaigning since 2007 for this important civic building.

[The Tribune @sheffieldtrib]

BREAKING: The Old Town Hall’s roof has partially collapsed.

The South Yorkshire Victorian Society say the section that has collapsed is the roof of the 1866 courtroom.

The collapse can be seen on the bottom right of this drone-shot photo, which was shared yesterday on Facebook.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Superlative modern architecture. A new hospital & nursing home treating old soldiers with love &dignity. It’s from, as sign says, 2008. Sound-proofed, insulated, state of the art with AC vents where once there would have been chimneys. Give thanks to @fterryarchitect & his father

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

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[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

What was the UK’s oldest working cinema, at the heart of the UK’s most historic grassroots arts street still faces the neglect & bulldozers of Glenbrook Property for a gaudy tower

Except there’s an alternative. A full plan by Brummies Flatpack Festival to save it. Back Brummies!

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

@CheltCivicSoc Awful. Remember, someone somewhere believes this is good architecture. The utility cabinets even get their own wall! The brick detail feels forced, begrudgingly included. The design, apart from the massing, has no immediate reference. Absolute crap.

[Mike The Litterpicker @mike56200]

Painting off scribble in Walsall Town centre yesterday. I had this colour matched paint specially for this building that's all painted. It stops the place being a dump

[Cheltenham Civic Society @CheltCivicSoc]

Same here in Glos. @GlosRoads and @Ringway_UK seem oblivious to them. They must lose thousands of pounds worth of kit this way.

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

@ArtFirst382361 @sabrown134 @fixmystreet @HfdsCouncil @RossonWyeTC @rclcuc_ @KeepBritainTidy @bbchw @RossGazette @rossonlinenews @herefordtimes @theJeremyVine @sarajcox @DJTrevorNelson @GMB Whilst the outcome is an improvement in that it is now usable, this is an excellent example of a relentless march towards utility. Cold and functional. I suspect simply replacing the slats may well have been cheaper, although I can't be sure if the concrete supports were sound.

[Romeo Macintosh @MacZorra]

@CheltCivicSoc @GlosCC @CheltenhamBC Abolition of the district and county responsibilities can't come soon enough. How difficult can it be for the public realm to be taken care of? It's very sad.

[Save Station Street, Birmingham @OldStationSt]

Whoever eventually ends up running Birmingham Council…

The city is fed up of our historic buildings looking like this. Less drawing up policies and having roundtable meetings. More being aggressive and using your powers to fix it. The city has had enough.