Ben Myring

Enjoys cultivating geekery.

[Robert Kwolek @RobertKwolek]

Quinlan Terry’s triumphant Richmond Riverside (1988). It’s so good that the first time I saw it 15 years ago I had no idea it wasn’t an authentic Georgian grouping. It now fits in as if it always belonged.

[Coby @Cobylefko]

More than a century ago, Santa Barbara decided that it wanted to be a Spanish Revival city, building with intention & concentrating those efforts in the core.

Now, it's one of the most beautiful places in America, building wonderful projects like this every year, all by choice!

[createstreets @createstreets]

It’s that time of year to remind everyone that snow shows us how most of our urban streets could have narrower carriageways & wider pavements. In ..

Famous GIF via @otucis & @BrentToderian

[Ben Myring @BenMyring]

This would be absolutely ruinous. There's a night & day difference between Greek islands that are mobbed by cruise daytrippers and islands that have a slower, more traditional pace and focus on eco-friendly tourism. Must we destroy every single place?

https://t.co/wzLbtjznlB

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Tower view of the first Super Heavy booster catch

[Ben Myring @BenMyring]

I want one of these, except instead of a creepy humanoid I want a robo-monkey in a fez to bring me my cocktails.

[Teslaconomics @Teslaconomics]

Optimus is going to be the biggest product of any kind and will cost $20,000~$30,000 long-term

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

And this is another of the most beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful train ever made: the 12.004 (La Douce), a sumptuous steam locomotive, with François Schuiten, who was inspired by it, posing next to it

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

One of the most beautiful trains ever made, the ‘Mercury’ streamliner, designed in Art Deco-style by Henry Dreyfuss for the New York Central Railroad. Here's one captured in Chicago in 1936 (colorization by Patty Allison)

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Stefan Zweig on Europe’s capitals at the turn of the century is interesting - and entirely at odds with today’s common sense: he says they became more beautiful, and more densely populated, at the same time. (Written in 1942).

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

The famous Ritz Hotel is replacing an ugly postwar block with an extension in the style of the original Mewès and Davis 1906 building. These are matching perspectives: it looks to be a huge improvement for Arlington Street. Building works currently underway.

[Ben Myring @BenMyring]

@Chaospress32 @harryhew

[Bob Dylan Pictures @BobDylanPics]

Bob Dylan visits Governor Jimmy Carter at the Governor's Mansion, Atlanta, Georgia, 1974. 📸: Barry Feinstein. #BobDylan #Dylan

[ianVisits @ianvisits]

Good to see @TheGreenParty has finally dropped its opposition to HS2 and will now support rail travel as an alternative to planes.

[Simon Evans @DrSimEvans]

BREAKING: China's CO2 emissions dropped 1% in Q2 of 2024, the first quarterly drop since Covid-19

The new analysis by @laurimyllyvirta for @CarbonBrief shows China remains on track for a fall in annual CO2 this year, meaning emissions would've peaked in 2023

🌄🚗🏙️Key drivers are record growth of solar / wind, as well as EVs and China's real-estate slowdown
⚡️Drop in 2024 depends on electricity demand growth easing in H2, per industry projections
⛰️🏭Strong demand from coal-to-chemicals, industry, has been raising energy use ahead of pre-Covid trends
⚖️If this pace of growth continues, CO2 would be flat in 2024 rather than falling

Full details in the article ↘️

https://t.co/Zx2EWe5vSU

[Andy Murray @andy_murray]

Never even liked tennis anyway.

[Ben Myring @BenMyring]

This brilliantly captures how traditional urbanism beats car-focused sprawl on every metric worth caring about.

[Nicholas Boys Smith @boys_nicholas]

Useful thread. A key path to more homes is to legalise attractive intensification on existing streets by right, no risk, as long as you follow certain locally agreed rules.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Precisely. What people like. Where they feel at home. Where it is safe and pleasurable to walk and mingle with your neighbours is remarkably easy to predict.