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We can design, we can afford & we can create beautiful new streets & places. Observe how some gable ends, properly detailed windows & a brick floor make all the difference here. Little things. Modest costs. And yet they transform the loveless into the lovely.
🚨Tomorrow.
Hackney’s Planning Committee faces a choice that matters well beyond Shoreditch. Supporting Shoreditch Works would signal that London backs good growth in the right places, growth that strengthens streets, supports jobs and contributes to the long-term health of the city.
How did we ban beauty by mistake? You can read our latest report Banning Beauty featured prominently in the
@telegraph.co.ukWhat a happy looking home and garden. Observe the details & coherence which lifts the house from a wall with nine holes to something worth looking at.
As the days begin to get longer, the countdown to the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture Summer School begins! Will you be joining us? ➡️https://createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-places-academy/summer-school/
#summerschool #urbandesign #architectureWe're growing the team!
Are you passionate about designing streets and places that people actually want to live in?
We're looking for talented people who care about creating beautiful, human-scale urban environments:
These are both train stations.
Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.
Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.
Check out our director Nicholas Boys Smith MBE on The Critic Show last week talking about the construction and restoration of the Palace of Westminster. You can watch it here
www.outpoststudios.net/p/the-palace...
The Palace of Westminster is Falling Down.
And other tales of architectural misadventure
The best streets have enclosure & variety in a pattern.
Struggling to think of a Christmas present for the urbanists & artists in your life? Check out the upcoming Create Streets Foundation short courses!
Gentle Density Masterclass -
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating_gen...
Dare to Draw -
www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/dare-to-draw/This slice of Paris is new. Every mote of it. New homes & places don't need to be loveless. We chose to create ugly places because we don't ask: is this humane? Is this lovely? Is this kind? But we can afford to. If we dare to slip the surly bonds. Read more -
www.createstreets.com/projects/com...CAMBRIDGE: New data. Clear preferences. The public want buildings that fit in, not stick out.
A new poll by DeltapollUK Create Streets finds 71% of Britons prefer a traditional alternative to the current design for the Christ’s College library.
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Is this best news for city creation for over a century? In Solano County, California (California Forever) is attempting something fascinating: a unified-landowner model to build what might become “the finest piece of urbanism at that scale” for over 100 years .... 🧵
What a joy to behold. Gloucester's 26 Westgate ('Old Judges House'), and England's largest timber-framed townhouse has been repaired thanks to a grant from Historic England. Approaching 500 years old, it's now home to the Gloucester Antiques Centre. Long may she thrive...
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. But, what was destroyed may be reforged as our friends in glorious Dresden are demonstrating. This is new. Every gold stone of it.
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Our generation’s gift to London. YES, YES, YES to new homes but this is not loving or respectful to places or their people. Meanwhile, less manacled by group think, Paris in the same decade is building…
Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?
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New Gentle Density emerging in London. A lot is admirable here. Curves. Arches. Texture. Reeding. Implied pilasters. Slowly, pace by pace we are winning.
Great to be included among many other informative and transformative groups and people in the urban design sphere!
NEW STARTER PACK! This time I’m hoping to encourage and support global urbanists from OUTSIDE North America here on Bluesky, so hopefully this will help! Who’ve I missed? Just joined? Let me know! I’ll keep updating, so please keep checking & sharing this pack! And let’s try using
#GlobalUrbanists.
Urbanists OUTSIDE North America Worth Following!
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