tim abrahams

architecture, progress, liberty

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

You can just build houses if you want.

me on Oosterwold in @Countrylifemag
https://t.co/CTVcgnN69p

[Doom Spiral @DoomSpiralpod]

Indeed, vox pops are extremely valuable when you build up a reasonable dataset.

I watched Corey Gil-Shuster interview Israelis and Palestinians on the streets over the last 10 years, and it became obvious that plans for peace were impossible. The older generations were sanguine and reasonable. The younger generation was full of irreconcilable bile and prejudice.

A harbinger of Gaza, in other words.

https://t.co/rLLJPqq7GN

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@DoomSpiralpod @TomBaldwin66 Wow what a project! Didn’t know about it. Sensing an influence of Studs Terkel but adapted brilliantly for a very different environment. Thanks for sharing. Will try and watch in depth.

[Paul Heron @Paul_Heron_]

Modernism in Powell and Pressburger.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

huge if true

[Far Out Magazine @FarOutMag]

Noel Gallagher once opened up about his biggest musical influences. 🎤👇

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

@David_Rudnick @alexschristian Great selection of his paintings. RIP.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

My last word. I would merely encourage you to entertain the possibility that the level of anger we are witnessing now is because it’s the very people who were expected to do all the emotional, economic and social work in making a very particular period of post crash, high immigration multiculturalism work. And who for the large part did it. They forgave, they did the work on being more understanding and accommodating despite it being them who potentially suffered economic consequence. They took the lectures on racism and Islamophobia and yet these are the people who now realise they have been stiffed.

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@David_Jamieson7 Yes, it's almost as if the values of multiculturism are conveniently woolly and ideal for the British state to use when it is useful and ignore when it is not.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

@David_Jamieson7 I am not really sure what you are saying but it sounds like you are struggling with the idea that things change their meaning over time.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

@David_Jamieson7 Totally disagree. The Manchester bombing is the acme of how the values of liberal multiculturalism can be used by the British state to detract from the negative effects of its own foreign policy, within the state as much as in relations to the public.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

@David_Jamieson7 I think that's naive and denies that there was any historical process in the song being used authentically, it being used deliberately to manipulate popular opinion, and some of the people themselves realising their best intentions had been co-opted.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

The song was used at first as an authentic response but became a cornerstone of the One Love concert which was a state-sanctioned attempt to use sentimentality as the predominant mode of addressing huge divisions and incipient anger. It papered over the cracks and in so doing was the first salvo in the culture war you allude to. It was cynical. So give over blaming those who object to that as the ones who started it. And maybe also go easy on The National editorial style rhetoric.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

"Do remember they can't cancel spring"
RIP David Hockney.

[tim abrahams @timabrahams]

That's a sneaky wee argument you are trying to pull there. I don't think that even Morrissey is saying, "that song is pro-child killer", the complaint is that it tries to delegitimise legitimate anger. It might have been framed as "diverting negative emotions" or whatever but that was why that song was chosen.

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Mario Botta, Pope John XXIII Church in Seriate, Italy, completed in 2004. One of Botta's more serene interiors, its geometric simplicity reconciling itself to the liturgy rather than struggling against it with circular geometries.

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You can see where the idea for this came from:

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The only cathedral built in France in the 20th century, Evry Cathedral by the Swiss architect Mario Botta sits in the new town to the SE of paris. It is crowned by 24 silver linden trees, symbolising the hours in the day, but also, apparently, the apostles and tribes of Israel.

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Constructed from layers of marble and gneiss, the Church of San Giovanni Battista, Mogno by Mario Botta, was built between 1992 and 1996. Botta's design - the first of many churches - replaced the previous 17th century building which was destroyed by an avalanche in 1986.

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@bigalias Amen. Here, I wish we had confidence in the confidence we once had. "We were on to something. Let's trust ourselves."

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In Hamburg they renovated the Alster-Schwimhalle and added a sauna complex.

[Dezeen @dezeen]

"Opportunity missed" as Coventry's post-war swimming pool set for demolition:
https://t.co/41DjoAoGVH

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@Alex__1789 maxxtiming though

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@sturgios Henge of Stonehead.