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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 1d

From Elif Shafak's There are Rivers in the Sky

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 1d

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · Dec 22

THREAD: The great wooden synagogues of the shtetls were probably the greatest ever architectural expression of Yiddish culture. All lost in the Holocaust.

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 2d

Oh wow, how amazing! Your old home is STUNNING and clearly is still much loved 😊

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 3d

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 3d

House in Belsize Park

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 3d

I was told to 'fuck off back to Israel' many times when I was growing up in London, as well as obviously being constantly ridiculed. I never did and still don't want to go there. But I'm now really, really scared for myself and my family.

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 3d

Moomoo hard at work

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 4d

RIP ❤️❤️❤️

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 5d

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 5d

Ugly but interesting. Stratford

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 5d

I am never not overjoyed to get home to this

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 5d

Havent been to Wagamama in years, we're grabbing one now and wow, it seems to have improved with age

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 5d

London sunrise

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 6d

Glad u do :)

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 6d

HK Chair I designed, 2019

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 6d

2/2 Those who havnt attended Jewish services r often shocked at the measures that need to be taken when they do. It is an onerous burden. Those of you who care & can, please consider donating to the CST & supporting the viability of continuing Jewish life in the UK cst.org.uk/donate-now

Donate Online Now – CST – Protecting Our Jewish Community

cst.org.uk

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 6d

1/2 These days Jewish life exists in the UK by virtue of a large amount of security, which is very expensive, & which many organisations cannot afford. it is an invisible tax on Jewishness. The Community Security Trust provides this security free of charge, alleviating the burden

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Architectual Icons @architecturalicons.bsky.social · 6d

Today we launch our collection celebrating Mordechai Ben-Horin's curvaceous Tel Aviv masterpiece, the undulating, delightful Asia House (Beit Asia) that was completed in 1979 t.co/x4EO2xZEtQ

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 6d

Gmar chatima tova 🙏

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 7d

Forest of Delight, an installation i designed outside Osaka Station, summer 2025

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 8d

1/2 The Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, 1889, the first purpose built mosque in the UK, designed by WI Chambers, it was commissioned by the Hungarian-British Jewish Orientalist Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (there are stars of David in the windows) and funded by Begum Shah Jahan...

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 7d

Nice to see Pullman Hotels & Resorts are still using the colourful identity I designed for them back in 2018 (the colourful wall behind Powell in the photo). No comment on the Labour deputy leadership election...

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Adam Nathaniel Furman @anfurman.bsky.social · 9d

1/3 Terry has passed away. We have lost one of the greatest to have ever graced the stage of British architecture. Like for so, so many, Terry was my champion and hero, an unparalelled figure of superhuman generosity, fierce independence of mind, copious, effusive talent...

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