Peter Smisek

I have approximate knowledge of many things. Lapsed architect, now publicist & occasional freelance architecture/design writer.

[Peter Smisek @psmisek]

Yesterday, @MVRDV's Winy Maas launched Copy/Paste during @dutchdesignweek with my student collage on the cover. Photos: Felipe Aldana

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@gmoult I can still recite that…

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@hs_wilkins FALSE

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God these people would complain Munich Olympic Stadium isn’t made of lederhosen…

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Awful. A rip off of the Hassan II stadium being built in Casablanca.

Could be Jeddah, Rio or Madrid. Manchester is an industrial city. Indeed it’s the home of the Industrial Revolution!

Red brick galore and industrial futurism much better than a Westfield yurt.

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@hs_wilkins OFC!

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I mean the bigger question is, is Kahn ever Brutalist?

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Hi yes, please stop embarrassing yourself.

[Nick Whitaker 🇺🇸 @ns_whit]

Requesting a “brutalism is actually good” photo dump that isn’t just completely leaning on good foliage

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The Ghost of Systems Future

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

This will be a new “Wellness Resort” in Dubai

Because nothing says wellness like a transparent blob in a lake with views of a highway

https://t.co/qx8nJdXPJK

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@cszabla Ah, sounds like shock therapy 😬

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@MatthewLloydR There’s a traditionally a big disconnect between planning (policy) and urbanism (design). So maybe the policy people just default to the only visualisation tool that’s available to them?

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@gmoult Tbf that guy in the turquoise outfit, cape and a crown in the first image does kind of look like El*n M*sk.

[james moss @ratboyjames]

no gay stuff allowed today. its new years eve, not new years steve

[Peter Smisek @psmisek]

An excellent article by my former boss, the ever-brilliant @Hiyapriya about the pervasive presence of dinosaurs and unicorn in toy shops, contains this brilliant factoid, which of course is an independent (?) meme. https://t.co/HTEiZnEZnl

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Because of course this

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Love these YouGove surveys that pop up on my feed about what Europeans want and Europe goes only as far east as Germany.

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The advantage of being multilingual on El*n M*sk’s twitter is now I get recommended reactionary/racist posts in several languages!

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@timabrahams Industrial tennis complex sounds like if Rogers designed it in the late 80s/early 90s tbf and I’d love to see it.

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By being badly paced, tedious, clunky and unwieldy, the Rings of Power is actually a more faithful adaptation of Tolkien’s text than Jackson’s LOTR trilogy.

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@VitruviusGrind Also, the Colosseum, a humane structure where only nice things happened 🤗

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@mcmansionhell One Canada Sq in London and the Zurichtoren (aka ‘citruspers’ - the citrus squeezer) in The Hague. Both Pelli Clarke & Partners iirc