The aesthete

Lover of literature, art, architecture and greenery.🇬🇧

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

A lovely old photo of holidaymakers waiting for the Cornish Riviera express at Paddington station, London, in August 1924

[Jim Beattie @JimBeattie18]

Good Morning ☀️
~
"Still what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled -
to cast aside the weight of facts

and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world"
( Mary Oliver )
~
Turker Alagözyaylasi photography

[BijanOmrani @BijanOmrani]

Make it stop.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

@createstreets HS2 is the best opportunity to correct this urban blight. The gov needs to grasp the opportunity.

[Bygone Britain @BygoneBritain]

🇬🇧 RMS Mauretania in drydock November 1928, Southampton, Hampshire, England. Original autochrome colour photo

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

@createstreets In my utopia, the Arndale would be demolished and a public park, akin to St James’s Park would be built in its place.

[Arthur Weidmann @arthurweidmann1]

La nouvelle entrée principale de la station de métro La Fourche sur la ligne 13, qui est une reconstruction à l'identique de celle originale, remplacée dans les années 1960 par des garde-corps en béton.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Street lights don’t need to be ugly. Biomorphic in Barcelona. With seats built in. The society which created this over 100 years ago was in absolute terms massively poorer than our own. And yet we cannot match it due to a total failure of regulation, aspiration & culture.

[Shauny 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 @homewithshaun]

@ikeijeh Another missed opportunity to make London’s Bankside more beautiful, whilst retrofitting much of the existing building

[Ike Ijeh @ikeijeh]

Work starts soon to replace the Bankside building on the left with the right. Left isn't perfect. But its mock-warehouse aesthetic is far more suited to the river than the lobotomised crate planned. The historic Anchor pub sits helplessly to the far left. London self-harms again.

[Lin Mei @linmeitalks]

Absolutely no excuse. The first social housing estate in Shoreditch has attention to detail, nice large windows and a centred green space. Here are some other early examples of social housing - again effort was made with brickwork details, arches etc

[Parisian Aesthetics @Parisianaes1]

Haussmannian buildings

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

@ZiaYusufUK So she criticises mansplaining but then goes to a man for advice.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

Totally agree, Aaron. Both this and the Curzon Street HS2 station are going to be two great additions to Brum.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

This is quality.

Some people love a whinge, but I think this is great. A nod to Brum’s civic and industrial heritage, and something actually unique to the city. Not an identikit bowl.

We are so back.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

Imagine heading into Birmingham Curzon Street on a HS2 train being greeted by this view of Birmingham City’s stunning new stadium.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

Just an absolutely stunning design — a beautiful fusion of hi-tech with historic.

[Birmingham City FC @BCFC]

Our new stadium.

A statement of intent for the City of Birmingham and the West Midlands, testament to a region that is on the rise.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

@BCFC Wonderful, unique design that is Battersea Power Station-esque.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

@mutianning Interesting. Are you in the UK? I only ask as it is still displaying as the Nov for me. After looking at Amazon US, I think unfortunately there could be a different release window for international sellers.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

I am way too excited for the release (November 13, 2025) of this Oxford World’s Classics edition of Marcel Proust’s The Guermantes Way, part of his seven-volume epic In Search of Lost Time. The beautiful cover painting is Monet’s Boulevard des Capucines.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

@ZiaYusufUK @Nigel_Farage Zia, reach out to @createstreets. They do great work in promoting beautiful, sustainable and gentle development that enriches local communities and areas.

[The aesthete @aesthete_93]

@unburiedbooks I can’t wait to read this.