Aidan Ridyard
@aidanridyard.bsky.social
RIBA FRSA
Architect
Believer that the blind pig will eventually find an acorn
Architect
Believer that the blind pig will eventually find an acorn
What fabulous heritage: many congratulations to our founders @bff-architects
8️⃣ The eighth entry on our 2025 Coming of Age list of the best British architecture now eligible for national heritage listing is Harbour Lights Cinema, Southampton, by Burrell Foley Fischer (1995); perhaps the most original new cinema design of the last 40 years.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/coming-of-ag...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/coming-of-ag...
December 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
What fabulous heritage: many congratulations to our founders @bff-architects
Four-pawed-parsnip-disposal-system
December 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Four-pawed-parsnip-disposal-system
Happy Christmas All
December 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Happy Christmas All
Cold night in the Forest of Arden
December 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Cold night in the Forest of Arden
Every year as work slows down before Christmas, I like to head off on my own to visit one of our cathedrals- today I went back to Leicester to see their new extension (immaculately detailed outside) and the tomb of Richard III (really well considered) but the townscape really impressed me too.
December 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Every year as work slows down before Christmas, I like to head off on my own to visit one of our cathedrals- today I went back to Leicester to see their new extension (immaculately detailed outside) and the tomb of Richard III (really well considered) but the townscape really impressed me too.
More experiments with 3D printing gothic churches…. StAlphege Solihull: in partial cross section this time
December 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
More experiments with 3D printing gothic churches…. StAlphege Solihull: in partial cross section this time
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
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Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Be kind
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Be kind
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Be kind
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Be kind
Sunrise in Worcestershire
December 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Sunrise in Worcestershire
Christmas is beginning to arrive now: visiting the light show at Wychbold tonight
December 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Christmas is beginning to arrive now: visiting the light show at Wychbold tonight
More Quinquennial goings on in Edgbaston
December 16, 2025 at 3:56 PM
More Quinquennial goings on in Edgbaston
Today was a Quinquennial Day….. not bad for 1917…. Columns of green Swedish marble! Who was building like this in the middle of the 1st World War??!!
December 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Today was a Quinquennial Day….. not bad for 1917…. Columns of green Swedish marble! Who was building like this in the middle of the 1st World War??!!
Interesting week
December 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Interesting week
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St James the Less, Pimlico, #London
Built by G E Street. 1859-61
“One of his most important churches, & one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere.”
#Pevsner Guide @yalebooks.bsky.social
A square “campanile” like tower, with a pyramid roof & four spirelets.
#SteepleSaturday #GEStreet
Built by G E Street. 1859-61
“One of his most important churches, & one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere.”
#Pevsner Guide @yalebooks.bsky.social
A square “campanile” like tower, with a pyramid roof & four spirelets.
#SteepleSaturday #GEStreet
December 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
St James the Less, Pimlico, #London
Built by G E Street. 1859-61
“One of his most important churches, & one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere.”
#Pevsner Guide @yalebooks.bsky.social
A square “campanile” like tower, with a pyramid roof & four spirelets.
#SteepleSaturday #GEStreet
Built by G E Street. 1859-61
“One of his most important churches, & one of the finest Gothic Revival churches anywhere.”
#Pevsner Guide @yalebooks.bsky.social
A square “campanile” like tower, with a pyramid roof & four spirelets.
#SteepleSaturday #GEStreet
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Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday
Share a smile and watch it travel soft as sunlight, gentle as hope, turning ordinary moments into something a little brighter
Share a smile and watch it travel soft as sunlight, gentle as hope, turning ordinary moments into something a little brighter
December 11, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday
Share a smile and watch it travel soft as sunlight, gentle as hope, turning ordinary moments into something a little brighter
Share a smile and watch it travel soft as sunlight, gentle as hope, turning ordinary moments into something a little brighter
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Cause they can't read. 🤷
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Cause they can't read. 🤷
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
Back from the delights of Rome…… but worse places for an afternoon’s meeting !!
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Back from the delights of Rome…… but worse places for an afternoon’s meeting !!
My last morning in Rome so I wanted to drop in on an old favourite once more…. San Giorgio in Valabrum. Founded in C5th but visibly dating to C7th-8th so Alfred the Great would have seen it when he came to Rome about 855.
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
My last morning in Rome so I wanted to drop in on an old favourite once more…. San Giorgio in Valabrum. Founded in C5th but visibly dating to C7th-8th so Alfred the Great would have seen it when he came to Rome about 855.
Off to Assisi….
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Off to Assisi….
Bernini or Borromini….. pick your favourite!
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Bernini or Borromini….. pick your favourite!
What a place to be on a Wednesday morning!!!
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
What a place to be on a Wednesday morning!!!
What are we all looking at……?? Arguably the most exquisite spatial expression of C17
#pilgrimage
#Rome
#pilgrimage
#Rome
November 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
What are we all looking at……?? Arguably the most exquisite spatial expression of C17
#pilgrimage
#Rome
#pilgrimage
#Rome
Just finished three days of public consultation at EXOq in Oxford….. super project and exciting to have it in the public realm after about ten months on the drawing board!
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Just finished three days of public consultation at EXOq in Oxford….. super project and exciting to have it in the public realm after about ten months on the drawing board!