Steve Dombek

Exploring narrow streets and Traditional City urbanism.

[Incunabula @incunabula]

The Olive Tree of Vouves: This ancient olive on the island of Crete is one of 7 olive trees in the Mediterranean thought to be at least 2000 to 3000 years old. Although its exact age can't be verified, it may be the oldest of all, at over 3000 years old. It still produces olives.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own." - @nntaleb

[Steve Dombek @SteveDombek]

@tmccormick @brezina Archived here: https://t.co/Buw3avERQJ

[Robert Sharp @sharp_architect]

Before and After photographs of the alley side of 23 Block Avenue in Downtown Fayetteville. Previous home J R's Lightbulb Club, now Pinpoint Pinball Bar with Lola's boutique on the upper floor.

[ArchitecturalRevival @Arch_Revival_]

The Degeneration of the Parisian Suburbs

In 1965, the modernists commenced the destruction of Bobigny

The traditional buildings were demolished, the church was replaced by a car park and this street was renamed 'Karl Marx Avenue'

[theoldbuilding @theoldbuilding]

The new / old houses on the old football ground are looking good. Love the colours and they are nicely spaced. New homes can be beautiful also.. @createstreets @RobertKwolek #classicalarchitecture

[ArchitecturalRevival @Arch_Revival_]

"When people talk about unspoiled landscape, they don't mean landscape without buildings, they mean landscape without modernist buildings."

- Quinlan Terry CBE

[Steve Dombek @SteveDombek]

@jerellvincent @AndrewAPrice @StPeteFL @StPeteChamber @StPeteRising I used to live in St. Pete. This would be a game-changer for the site. National and international attention. Get it done @StPeteChamber @StPeteRising @StPeteFL !

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

I often get messages from real developers, there is a real need for some new to break through the car dominated, even transit dominated, developments that is all we see today. The winning project could be donated to any town that wanted to adopt it.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Here's an idea: how about a competition where anyone can submit an ideal town layout for a defined area (a brownfield somewhere, an abandoned mall, parking lot etc.), human scaled and walkable, and the winner gets to see a mockup in 3D, or a train model town or relief map.

[Steve Mouzon @stevemouzon]

I walk by this building on the way to work most days while I’m in Tuscaloosa. #LEED Platinum, built for less than most notable federal courthouses, and in less time. But it incenses those who love saying this can’t be done.

[Christian Culture @Christian8Pics]

“The stone vaulting acted like a firewall and it kept the worst heat away [from the pulpit, pews, art, relics etc.]...” said the architect, Bernard Fonquernie. (NY Times)

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

My favorite part from Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s Nobel Lecture in 1970, quoting Dostoevsky: Beauty will save the world.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

13 000 mature oaks with no particular use anymore... What say you, Dear #StatensFastighetsverk? #Sweden #NotreDame

[Rebuild Penn Station @RbldPennStation]

Rebuild Penn Station enthusiastically supports the effort, announced by @EmmanuelMacron, to reconstruct Notre Dame. The reconstruction ought to be done as faithfully as possible to what was destroyed. The skills and craftmanship to do so still exist. https://t.co/AQCgEl3gcm

[Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek]

Notre-Dame will be rebuilt. What happened tonight has made clear the love people feel for beautiful buildings. They are part of our shared global human identity. Let's not stop with Notre-Dame. Time to heal the scars and rebuild the beloved places destroyed in the past 100 years.

[Conor Lynch @c_k_lynch]

A newly constructed building in Poundbury

Traditional architecture is truly making a comeback

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

Raw wool as insulation. Anyone who has handled rockwool will appreciate this photo. To insulate a roof of 150m² requires 1.5 tons of wool (10 kg per square meter, 25 cm thick). White wool costs €0.60/kg and black wool €0.25/kilo. That is €375 for whole roof. Not bad at all.

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

“It is literally against the law almost everywhere in the United States to build the kind of places that Americans themselves consider authentic and traditional.” — James Howard Kunstler

[Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon]

The railway is by far the mode of rural transport that is the least destructive towards both its destination and the country is passes through. #TrainTwitter #GoodAgrarianism