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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 1h

"What is needed now is not more big ideas or breakthrough products. It is repair. Design as repair means paying attention to what is already in motion." - @ronbronson.com

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Design As Repair - Ron Bronson | Ron Bronson

Note: These are the prepared remarks I wrote for my talk at IxDA Oslo. In the end, I spoke more extemporaneously, but I thought at least I could

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 1h

Benjamin Brown House, Forfar, ON, ca. 1849

yer typical late-Georgian vernacular, distinguished by the mushroom-cap lintels masquerading as semi-elliptical arches, notional voussoirs incised

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Will Wiles @willwiles.bsky.social · 17h

Pevsner said that the destruction of Soane's Bank of England was the greatest architectural crime of the 20th century. A century later the Bank is putting the perpetrators up for parole. I consider the evidence.

Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 20h

Sir John Soane described the Bank of England building he designed as ‘the pride and boast of my life’, but in 1925 his masterpiece was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes @willwiles.bsky.social

The man who broke the Bank of England – and built it back up again

It is a century since most of Sir John Soane’s structure was demolished to make way for Herbert Baker’s bigger but more boring vision, writes Will Wiles

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Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 1d

Loved reading this @timothyaschuler.bsky.social piece about the Erie Canal’s first 200 years … and what’s next (bridges! trails! art!) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

The Long Comeback of the Erie Canal

One of America’s first major public works projects is marking its 200th anniversary — and seeking a path to the future.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 1d

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, asked participants to draw their neighborhoods from memory, bridging gaps between houses to generate a shared image of a city destroyed by war. To rebuild justly, residents will need to understand this pluralist city as others have lived within it.

Memory Maps of Homs, Syria

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

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Dr James Alexander Cameron @drjacameron.stainedglassattitudes.com · 1d

A welcome surprise in my last-minute cathedral guiding was the new visitor centre at Lincoln Cathedral, with exhibition pentice on the back of the Wren library and cloister linking to the 1840s Deanery building by Simpson and Brown, completed in the Pandemic and opened in Spring 2021. Tremendous!

Limestone-clad front of window reveal standards linking the Wren Library of the N cloister walk to the 1840s deanery building which now houses the main cathedral café

New gift shop immediately inside the W face of new building, with tapering trusses supporting a glazed skylight toward the N transept

"Cloister" between the Wren library and Old Deanery, with pierced metal cladding to exhibition pentice. Cathedral behind with NE transept gable and the chapter house under heavy scaffolding.

The pentice exhibition against the outer wall of the Wren Library, showing the panels of the 2nd quarter of the 12thc frieze from the W front, some original panels, and some limestone copies of are still kept in-situ

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Michael Burchert @michaelburchert.bsky.social · 1d

Building with concrete fragments, new challenges for stone masons? @jamestaite.bsky.social
slaattomorsboel, Kopenhagen
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corner modell of split concrete fragments forming insulated floor and walls

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 1d

For sure Michael; if demo is absolutely necessary we should be making every effort to repurpose the material, including concrete

Not exactly the same, but this is a concrete lintel original to a stone structure we dismantled & rebuilt, salvaged for reuse in the same location; chalk marks the rebar

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately Canadians are also yanks when it comes down to it

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 5d

For the "Walking Distance" series: "The budget freeze passed unanimously", oil on canvas, 12x12", 2023 (private collection)

A realistic painting of a yellow & black striped bike lane bollard, broken & laid atop a concrete jersey barrier, the morning light casting strong shadows. The pavement is broken & crumbling.

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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 17d

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 5d

Cool cool that image of the feminine and the pastoral picturesque in contrast to the orthogonal and urban makes good reference to Hippodamus of Miletus and Roman castra but it really doesn’t adequately account for the 19thc rural landscape as shaped by N. American survey grid particularly the Jeffer

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 5d

view from the office

Looking through scaffold netting at a distant skyline of towers and steep roofs

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 5d

pointed arch and corbel-table

looking through scaffold and scaffold tarps upon which the image of a gothic revival building is printed

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 5d

Corbel table of pointed arches with cusps

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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 6d

This is not the world Iggy Pop rolled around in broken glass and then continued singing for.

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 6d

Oh shit I don’t know much about anything other than stone but that reveal with the rhythm of the mullions is a beaut. Love the organization of the facade, esp the green glass (but I’m a guy who once spent most of an afternoon staring at Lever House).

Congrats Nick & take a well-earned bow 🥳

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Cross-laminated & Skinned her 👻 🦇 🎃 @nickhasthoughts.com · 6d

material palette worked out I think

close up in purple brick facade with windows accompanied by limestone accents that alternate side from floor to floor. Multi-level glazing with a steel and wood canopy adjacent to brick. Trees and greenery with hardscape in foreground.

variegated limestone clafding with 2” shadow reveals and slot windows. Blue curtain wall above with alternating vertical spandrel panels and frit that flip flops each floor. A shadow implying a bent facade is cast over the limestone wall. unfinished landscape is in foreground.

stone pavers and steps lead up to glass building. Clear glass extends up to the first horizontal mullion to allow a sightline through the building. reflective blue glass is above. The facade is kinked. You can see the inside as well as daylight through the building on the entry side.

View across entry. Large wood and steel canopy above. Limestone and glazing, with balconies ascending the tower on the left. balconies have wood soffits to tie in with the wood canopy.

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 6d

Gorgeous Nick. Indiana limestone is a lovely stone, so nice under the chisel.

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Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 6d

A rare 19th century ‘bier house’, opposite St. Mary’s Church in Keysoe, Bedfordshire…this is where the bier, which was a wheeled contraption for moving coffins from parishioners houses to the church, was kept!

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Matthew Mckeague @memckeague.bsky.social · 6d

'Arguments that adaptive reuse might stymie architectural freedom are dispelled by the sameness of most contemporary urban redevelopment.' > 💯 spot on by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social. To his highlights of reuse schemes, I'd add the hundreds of community-led ones in the UK. www.ft.com/content/0ae2...

Adapt or die: the architects pioneering a new wave of building reuse

Thanks to innovators and smart policy initiatives, demolition is becoming more unfashionable. But is the tide changing fast enough?

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 6d

thanks’

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Soylent Robot 🏳️‍🌈 @soylentrobot.bsky.social · 8d

little fella

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 8d

So happy

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 8d

piles of spoil—overburden or rejected material or the waste from working stone into a finished form, like the quoins—lie everywhere throughout the forest

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