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1	Nov 3, '25	This is a recently completed British train station. It is pathetic, value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers &amp	453×	6.6M	12k	771	637
2	Dec 16, '23	This is a recently completed British train station. It is not civic or sociable architecture. It is antisocial. It says, “don’t come here”, “ don’t use me“, “why don’t you take the	52.6×	766k	3.1k	372	118
3	May 9, '25	Well done @HistoricEngland making Coventry better ….	49.4×	720k	3.1k	253	356
4	Feb 4, '24	#StreetScar We’ve all seen this: the freshly laid paving, newly laid granite setts or Yorkstones lovingly laid on a slow street or in front of a freshly repaired parade of shops. W	47.3×	688k	2.1k	428	212
5	Apr 4, '25	This is a new street.	33.6×	489k	2.8k	199	316
6	Oct 30, '25	Create Infrastructure to love. Here is how and why:…	29.2×	425k	2.4k	106	261
7	Feb 4, '24	This is a recently completed British train station. Value engineered to a level of comatose ugliness that dispirits & dulls the mind, dissuading passengers & degrading the	27.8×	404k	2.4k	270	43
8	Dec 19, '22	These Düsseldorf homes are new. No rule of economics or physics prevents us creating beautiful places How exquisitely the architect, Sebastian Treese, varies the pattern: colour, w	27.7×	404k	2.4k	293	140
9	Dec 18, '22	Density is not the problem	26.3×	383k	2.7k	226	78
10	Nov 19, '23	We're currently writing a brief paper with policy recommendations on #StreetScars - the scars to street surfaces made by & not repaired by utility firms. Like this horror in De	22×	320k	1.1k	187	65
11	Jan 11, '25	THAT'S better. Adding height AND making London more gorgeous & interesting. Bravo to our friend @FTerryArchitect & Finchatton for improving London. No rules of economics or physics	20.7×	302k	2.1k	171	193
12	Nov 23, '24	Once upon a time, Leeds had trams, lots of them. They helped people get to work, come to the centre to shops and to meet each other for work and play. But then, catastrophically, f	20.3×	295k	1.4k	267	263
13	Feb 10, '24	More height. More home. Stepping up beautifully in West London & treating its citizens with civic respect.	17.7×	258k	1.2k	98	70
14	Mar 3, '23	The death of US downtown 📸 via @orangutanagram	17.1×	249k	2k	213	75
15	Mar 26, '24	This is a modern building. Hotel Picasso in Barcelona, 🇪🇸 2012 by Wortmann Architects Ultimately only mind-forged manacles stop us rediscovering what it is to live with beauty.	15.9×	231k	1.2k	165	124
16	Nov 11, '25	If you had to choose between left and right which would you rather?	14.3×	209k	1.4k	63	114
17	May 21, '23	Illegal urbanism. In many towns in many countries, windows, door, distance between walls & lack of parking would make this impossible to build. And yet beautiful, resilient, wa	14.3×	209k	1.8k	208	111
18	Mar 15, '25	The restoration of Richmond Station is GORGEOUS, unearthing its sleek early Moderne charms (bravo to all involved) but why oh why oh why is the forthcoming…	12.8×	187k	1.7k	138	121
19	Nov 23, '23	On the left an old bus shelter On the right a modern place of worship at Bristol airport. Comment or satire appears superfluous.	12.2×	177k	1.6k	266	88
20	May 17, '24	One recently & expensively refurbished city centre street in the midlands with one …	12.1×	176k	1.2k	123	36
21	Jul 25, '23	Thanet Railway Station As just built by @railandroad As imagined by @c_k_lynch 😞 😔	11×	161k	1.1k	109	44
22	Jul 21, '23	New house in Wiltshire	11×	161k	1.3k	82	42
23	Oct 16, '22	Ever heard of Toulouse as a city centre whose improved street design is revolutionising local prosperity? It’s not normally lauded as a case study. But quality of the street design	10.0×	0	7k	1.5k	1.2k
24	Nov 4, '23	A million hurrahs for this.	9.1×	132k	1.1k	85	28
25	May 9, '25	What if all new terraced houses were this good & this simple? Just following simple patterns that evolve gently with the centuries, making people happy not creating false ruptu	8.6×	125k	1.8k	147	106
26	Nov 9, '24	We would do this instead. Big and bold and beautiful.	7.8×	114k	1.7k	142	176
27	Oct 31, '19	The best density is gentle .....	7.8×	0	6.9k	1.2k	357
28	Feb 14, '25	Oh dear. Making Ripon worse by ripping up the setts and smearing it in tarmac. What a hateful & heartless, miserable & pointless downgrade. No one involved in this decision	7.7×	112k	1.8k	207	73
29	Nov 1, '25	New homes are always to be welcome and this could be a LOT worse. Bravo @haringeycouncil Nevertheless, meanwhile in Paris..	7.7×	112k	1.2k	68	247
30	Mar 27, '23	Gentle density in Boston 📸 via @archi_tradition	7.2×	104k	1k	64	22
31	Nov 17, '23	These are new.	6.3×	91k	1k	75	34
32	Jun 19, '20	Trees & bikes make streets better. Utrecht reborn. Via ⁦@edwinlucas_⁩	6.1×	0	5.2k	1.1k	100
33	Nov 30, '24	This is a former warehouse in Leeds. Nothing…..	6.0×	88k	1.2k	105	97
34	Mar 17, '17	Anglo-Saxon map of London. Find places you know. Oddly compelling. Camberwelle. Brixges Stane. Padintune.	5.6×	0	3k	1.7k	32
35	Jan 22, '24	What a miserable downgrade.From the friendly to the faceless; from the lively to the loveless.	5.4×	79k	989	124	37
36	Oct 6, '21	Trams and trees 🚋 🌳 ❤️	5.2×	0	5.3k	527	75
37	May 17, '25	This is a Street Scar, a modest but meaningful example of the failing British state and the sacrifice of place to process. You can read more about …	5.1×	75k	1.3k	115	81
38	Nov 8, '19	This is the Piece Hall in Halifax, Yorkshire. It bares comparison with Piazza San Marco in Venice. It should be one of England’s most famous buildings. You should go.	5.0×	0	4.4k	799	80
39	May 31, '21	2,000 years ago a toddler stepped on this red clay tile drying in the sun of Roman Gaul ....	4.9×	0	5.2k	507	67
40	Sep 24, '24	Here’s a newly gouged #StreetScar near Embankment. A few simple lines in the next appropriate parliamentary act could end this ongoing desecration of our civic realm at no cost to	4.7×	68k	1.1k	156	31
41	Jul 20, '19	On the left, London's new water fountains. Oh the right, a Victorian example. The collapse in quality is profound and goes far beyond design. We appear to have lost any sense of ci	4.1×	0	2.9k	897	49
42	Oct 7, '21	This is The Piece Hall in Halifax. It survives comparison with St Mark’s Square in Venice. It should be one of Europe’s most famous buildings. Lockdown is over. Please do visit it.	4.0×	0	3.9k	493	63
43	Mar 3, '25	Seven storeys. Nobody minds	3.4×	49k	1k	64	93
44	Sep 8, '21	Time to put roads on a diet Via @ScootFoundation & @tobylloyd	2.9×	0	2.7k	400	73
45	Jan 24, '25	Streets should have trees, beautiful buildings (and no, that’s NOT subjective, human preferences are highly predictable) and wide and walkable pavements. To build beautifully is to	2.9×	42k	1.1k	134	78
46	Jul 29, '20	Bins or kids? Remaking Middlesbrough via @GroundworkGM	2.8×	0	2.5k	421	40
47	Jun 5, '20	Bit off subject for us but this is mesmerising. We’re using the beautiful shot of Mont St Michael at the beginning as our excuse ....😏	2.5×	0	1.8k	552	81
48	Oct 27, '19	When things seem bad, give thanks for the realities we avoided....	2.4×	0	1.9k	520	47
49	Apr 11, '21	Density is not the problem.	2.4×	0	2.4k	294	41
50	May 9, '25	Bigger can be better	2.2×	33k	1.2k	87	49
51	Mar 14, '20	Here’s an interesting 1961 @BBCArchive video in which some very level-headed South London school girls are not impressed with their new school & give the architect a deferentia	2.2×	0	1.3k	413	181
52	May 5, '22	A question. How many ways would your town or city authorities ban this street if you dared to build it today?	2.1×	0	2.2k	196	82
53	Dec 5, '19	A question for you. How many ways would your town or city authorities ban this street if you dared to build it today?	2.1×	0	1.7k	356	42
54	Feb 10, '22	London on a clean day, 98 years ago. Less traffic. More pedestrians. Dirtier buildings (all that coal soot).	2.0×	0	1.6k	314	128
55	Oct 1, '22	Create Places you can do this in Lovely 🎥 via @Lily27470606	2.0×	0	1.6k	361	83
56	May 29, '21	Do the world’s cities have any higher form than the house-lined canals of Holland?The narrow fronts, the variety in a pattern, the jangle of slightly different heights & breadt	2.0×	0	2k	187	45
57	Jul 19, '20	Before or after? Superb restoration by @dubcivictrust of terraced house at #18OrmondQuayUpper. Not just conserved but also returned to its original 1843 appearance. 😊	2.0×	0	2k	216	19
58	Jun 16, '20	Almost everything that could be right in a local high street is in this photo. This street is ready to play its role as a popular, prosperous, safe, beautiful & useful centre o	1.9×	0	1.5k	327	35
59	Aug 17, '18	Long live street trees. They improve air quality & tend to cut traffic speeds & accidents. They are associated with more walking & happier residents....	1.8×	0	1.4k	458	1
60	Mar 6, '20	The joy of brick	1.8×	0	1.8k	239	18
61	May 6, '22	This is new. Most people believe that new homes will make existing places worse. Let’s change that.	1.8×	0	1.8k	203	60
62	Aug 17, '18	Cleaning off the age of coal....	1.8×	0	1.4k	423	4
63	Feb 16, '19	Oh for streets and architecture with whimsy, joy and humour..... More of this please	1.8×	0	1.6k	349	6
64	May 13, '21	Wonder how many thousands of permits & principles this would break in any modern planning or building regs ? Access, gradient, parking, preservation probably and yet people lov	1.8×	0	1.7k	234	47
65	Nov 22, '19	Belfast in 1973	1.7×	0	1k	455	70
66	Dec 4, '21	Density is not the enemy #Florence	1.7×	0	1.7k	193	33
67	Mar 31, '22	Density is not the problem	1.6×	0	1.7k	164	32
68	Jun 30, '19	Oslo’s Mayor says banning cars from the city centre was like banning smoking: people complained until they saw the result.....	1.5×	0	1k	408	21
69	May 15, '21	Five to six storeys and nobody minds ... (no parking though)	1.5×	0	1.5k	165	29
70	Aug 16, '21	Over the last century, we have too frequently made our towns & cities shorter, lower density, uglier & less flexible. It’s been a mistake of historic proportions. Over the	1.5×	0	1.3k	248	33
71	Jun 2, '22	These are new. No rule of economics or physics prevents us creating beautiful,walkable new places. We do it to ourselves.	1.5×	0	1.4k	192	50
72	Mar 6, '21	The centre of Siena & a highway interchange in Houston are of similar size. The first is a home to 30,000 people; the second is a home to no one. cc @simongerman600	1.5×	0	1.1k	301	37
73	Jul 10, '21	Create cities with trams Create streets with trees Which UK city will be the first to dare to do this?	1.4×	0	1.3k	191	26
74	Jan 25, '20	When did this become good enough for us as a society? Who designed it? Who permitted it? Who invested in it?	1.4×	0	1.1k	191	13
75	May 17, '21	Build bricks for bees please. 🧱 🐝 😊	1.4×	0	1.2k	196	30
76	Apr 8, '22	Late 19th and early 20th century European cities basically cracked how to create beautiful gentle density buildings which give light to the interior and dignified elegance to the s	1.3×	0	1.3k	190	45
77	Sep 21, '20	This used to be Utrecht’s moat. For 40 years it was a ring road & now it is a canal again. We all make mistakes. Clever places fix them. Video via @Sustainable2050	1.3×	0	1.1k	251	18
78	Sep 3, '22	The loss of childrens’ liberty to walk through and play in streets is one of the great cultural changes in the last 100 years - slow, almost unremarked upon but profound neverthele	1.2×	0	1k	241	28
79	Mar 21, '21	NIMBY-killer. This house is new.	1.2×	0	1.3k	83	28
80	Jul 5, '22	Should we create more shop fronts like this rather than panels of pure plate glass? 102 High Street, Wavertree. Also via @LiverpoolVista who are worth a follow	1.2×	0	1.2k	114	19
81	Aug 23, '22	Heavens - this new Dutch building is good. Via @michael_diamant	1.2×	0	1.2k	122	24
82	Jan 2, '20	How should we design our streets and squares? For the human spirit to sing or to be machine-readable?	1.2×	0	947	228	16
83	Dec 29, '19	Two background stills fro Disney’s 101 Dalmations in 1961. What did the animators understand about urban design that most house builders and architects still don’t ?	1.2×	0	1k	166	28
84	Apr 15, '21	Before .... and after Shopkeepers’ fears are 100% understandable but good news is that re-humanising streets normally leads to INCREASED shop takings. Argyle Street, Halifax, via ⁦	1.2×	0	918	211	30
85	Jan 5, '22	How it started How it’s going. Marvellous work by ⁦@dubcivictrust⁩	1.2×	0	1.2k	88	15
86	May 22, '21	Strasbourg new and old. One is built to please humans, the other to win prizes.	1.1×	0	1k	152	31
87	Nov 7, '19	Gosh this is good. New gentle density in Wimbledon. Complexity. Composure. Colour. Character. Why it’s best to innovate in a tradition rather than throw the tradition away. ⁦@RoryS	1.1×	0	972	164	25
88	May 13, '20	Which of these places do you think is often described as the ‘most photographed’ or ‘most beautiful’ place in Boston ?	1.1×	0	1.1k	149	16
89	Feb 12, '20	We can still build beautifully. This is the Wintles, Shropshire...	1.1×	0	1k	158	29
90	Dec 4, '21	Create buildings worth reflecting. Five storeys. Nobody minds.	1.1×	0	1.2k	133	16
91	Jan 8, '22	Adding a string course with burnt headers. Ornament need not be expensive.	1.1×	0	1.2k	84	18
92	Sep 18, '20	Density is not the enemy	1.1×	0	1.1k	131	17
93	May 19, '20	Density is not the enemy.	1.1×	0	1k	138	21
94	Sep 24, '21	Build cities with love. Not like this.	1.0×	0	1k	121	6
95	Nov 11, '21	Two generations ago, the UK made a mistake of historic proportions & ripped up its tram network. It’s time to put that right now. Photo via @_dmoser	1.0×	0	974	138	15
96	Jan 12, '20	Less space can be more place.	1.0×	0	992	136	11
97	Mar 31, '22	Creating homes and intensifying the street sustainably with popular consent by Paris. Via the always well-informed @michael_diamant	1.0×	0	996	108	33
98	Jul 16, '22	Slowly we are winning. Remarkably these are not just new but done by a (medium sized) housebuilder. Imperfect (upvc windows which are a sustainability crime) but pretty decent #Gen	1.0×	0	1k	82	13
99	Oct 30, '20	Creating streets in Dorset. This street is new.	0.9×	0	961	69	19

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