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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 11d

Best buildings in Zurich, 2021-24 - sixteen projects, almost half of them retrofits. gutebauten.stadt-zuerich.ch

Auszeichnung für gute Bauten der Stadt Zürich 2021–2024

Gutes Bauen hat in Zürich Tradition. Die Stadt zeichnet seit rund 80 Jahren regelmässig die besten Bauwerke und Freiräume aus

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Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 16d

Manchester historians!

@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!

www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

FastHistory — The Portico Library

Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!

www.theportico.org.uk

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · 18d

Mirador del Rio - home of the utterly evil Baron in German cult TV show Timm Thaler.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 24d

Zürich hat jetzt seine eigene M-Wort-Debatte, allerdings natürlich unter klassisch Zürcher Bedingungen mit direkt persönlichen Attacken auf einen guten Kollegen, Bernhard Schär

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Sep 8

In fairness, there were nicer bits in between.

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Sep 8

One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · Sep 4

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

A Reddit post with a wall with a black stain and the caption
Down a grate, defenders at the top of this tower would toss scalding hot grease down at their enemies. The stain is still on the wall centuries later.

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Sep 2

#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Aug 30

Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...

Alexandra Road Retrofit: Stop Potential Fuel Poverty, Mould, and Inequality

Camden Council’s proposed heating retrofit for the iconic Grade II* listed Alexandra Road Estate risks locking residents into permanently high bills, colder homes, damp and mould and greater inequalit...

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JP Spencer @jpspencer.bsky.social · Aug 21

The 1985 Transport Act was one of the biggest policy failures of recent decades. Nothing better describes this than the chart below by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com.

A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 21

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · Aug 20

Universities doubling down as public sentiment shifts away from dependence upon AI. This is the problem with the buy-in.

Theo Nash @theonash.bsky.social · Aug 20

The University of Michigan is now claiming that students have an ‘ethical responsibility’ to use AI.

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Aug 15

Slightly diminish a band: Public Opponent

Rafael Jackson @rafajack.bsky.social · Aug 14

Slightly diminish a band: The Windows

Gutiérrez Soto y otros (Manuel Aragón) @manuelaragon.bsky.social · Aug 14

Slighlty diminish a band: Knives and Roses

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Aug 12

Facebook reminds me that a year ago I started a project of scanning the journals of the Central African Historical Association, based at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, which ran from 1970 to the early 1980s. I have uploaded my scans to Dropbox here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ruzbp...

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Danny Birchall @dannybirchall.bsky.social · Aug 5

the scenario we all feared

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Aug 5

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Aug 1

Worth a watch, now available with English subs.

www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC...

DJ Mehdi - Made in France - Culture | ARTE in English

Mehdi Favéris-Essadi, better known by his stage name DJ Mehdi, was a key figure in the emerging French rap and electro scenes in the 2000s. Thirteen years after his untimely death, director and close ...

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Patrick Zamarian @pzamarian.bsky.social · Jul 26

William Knight, third-year student project for a Riverside Restaurant, Liverpool School of Architecture, 1946

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Hannah Louise Henthorn @hanarchovist.bsky.social · Jul 23

More and more I am hearing from archivist pals who are receiving enquiries for records that don't exist because AI has somehow generated fake catalogue numbers and titles...

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Stephen Parnell @stephenparnell.bsky.social · Jul 21

Anyone know anyone who wants to buy over 1,100 books and over 4,000 magazines of C20 architecture history/theory? An instant collection? Some incredibly rare and collectable magazines including Archigrams, Uppercase, Leonard Koren's Wet (the magazine of gourmet bathing), Arts & Architectures etc etc