Nick de Klerk
@nickdk.bsky.social
Architect, writer, occasional critic; hotel specialist / sector head at Purcell Architecture. Views all my own, ofc.
https://nicholasdeklerk.com
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I love and learned a lot from Gehry’s early work, specifically the hay barn and his Santa Monica house, but it’s very hard to look at the Battersea housing project and not think it falls into the first, not the second category.
December 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I love and learned a lot from Gehry’s early work, specifically the hay barn and his Santa Monica house, but it’s very hard to look at the Battersea housing project and not think it falls into the first, not the second category.
In situ at CX station
October 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
In situ at CX station
My latest review for Building Design considers Jon Blair’s recent film about Eric Parry’s approach to architecture - The Art of Architecture - and offered the opportunity to ask some big questions, as the film does: www.bdonline.co.uk/briefing/the...
October 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My latest review for Building Design considers Jon Blair’s recent film about Eric Parry’s approach to architecture - The Art of Architecture - and offered the opportunity to ask some big questions, as the film does: www.bdonline.co.uk/briefing/the...
May 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This feels like the most DS+R project ever: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
May 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This feels like the most DS+R project ever: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
And this, dear reader, is why people like this shouldn’t be anywhere near such consequential technology. ‘The coolest, really?’ And no, I didn’t read anything in the interview that persuaded me otherwise.
May 11, 2025 at 4:24 PM
And this, dear reader, is why people like this shouldn’t be anywhere near such consequential technology. ‘The coolest, really?’ And no, I didn’t read anything in the interview that persuaded me otherwise.
Sun setting over the Reichstag in Berlin, snapped while getting lost in Friedrichstrasse station.
April 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sun setting over the Reichstag in Berlin, snapped while getting lost in Friedrichstrasse station.
There are concept sketches and then there are concept sketches…. www.ribaj.com/buildings/do...
March 28, 2025 at 8:23 PM
There are concept sketches and then there are concept sketches…. www.ribaj.com/buildings/do...
You’ve reminded me that it wasn’t always like that - I had used it routinely for a couple of years (mostly passing through) in the 90’s when I also lived not far away.
March 28, 2025 at 12:57 AM
You’ve reminded me that it wasn’t always like that - I had used it routinely for a couple of years (mostly passing through) in the 90’s when I also lived not far away.
Berlin, or at least a couple of pieces of the wall, comes to Lewisham.
March 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Berlin, or at least a couple of pieces of the wall, comes to Lewisham.
I was kind of getting into the virtual NG a little, but having discovered this painting again, I really just want to go and sit in front of it: imaginarium.nationalgallery.org.uk/imaginarium/...
March 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I was kind of getting into the virtual NG a little, but having discovered this painting again, I really just want to go and sit in front of it: imaginarium.nationalgallery.org.uk/imaginarium/...
I do like this, by Office KGDVS though
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I do like this, by Office KGDVS though
‘Walls would be lined with waste materials from Portland stone quarries – less polished than most of the museum, and suggestive of excavation and archaeology.’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
March 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
‘Walls would be lined with waste materials from Portland stone quarries – less polished than most of the museum, and suggestive of excavation and archaeology.’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘The Chateau in particular is a kind of halfway house, a perfect bardo, a suspension of reality.’ www.ft.com/content/442d...
February 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
‘The Chateau in particular is a kind of halfway house, a perfect bardo, a suspension of reality.’ www.ft.com/content/442d...
Actually made me think of this a little, a vault under the London Bridge viaduct at the end of Bermondsey Street
February 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Actually made me think of this a little, a vault under the London Bridge viaduct at the end of Bermondsey Street
A (not quite) glassy river and a river of glass - two points on my travels today.
January 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A (not quite) glassy river and a river of glass - two points on my travels today.
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
January 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.
![I begin by asking Corbet: why archi-tecture? "Because of how similar the process of making a movie is to building a building," he says. "It requires the same amount of personnel, roughly it's about 250 people to make a movie and 250 people to build a building of scale.
My uncle is an architect, and whenever we chat, we have a lot of the same gripes and experiences... so this was a way of my wife [Norwegian filmmaker Mona Fastvold] and I writing something that we were extremely familiar with."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a7c72dgx65jwulhmu647guea/bafkreiclrata7xmneuzovlajrwiyhajmhtbsjdmm2r5ym5scxhuoo7v7ty@jpeg)
January 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Not one at risk AFAIK, but perhaps the most influential of these houses for me, was Pierre Koenig’s #21
January 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Not one at risk AFAIK, but perhaps the most influential of these houses for me, was Pierre Koenig’s #21
I’ve been lucky enough to see Turrell installations on at least two occasions: in what was the Pace gallery at the back of the RA in 2013, and earlier in 2010 at Gagosian Britannia Street, including the Bindi Shards - which was quite something.
January 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’ve been lucky enough to see Turrell installations on at least two occasions: in what was the Pace gallery at the back of the RA in 2013, and earlier in 2010 at Gagosian Britannia Street, including the Bindi Shards - which was quite something.
Albrecht Durer’s Melencholia I, 1514: pdimagearchive.org/images/c341b...
January 12, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Albrecht Durer’s Melencholia I, 1514: pdimagearchive.org/images/c341b...
There are far worse ways to spend your sunday evening than browsing the @pdimagearchive.bsky.social archive. This is Karl Blossfeldt in 1928 from Urformen der Kunst: pdimagearchive.org/images/fd18d...
January 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
There are far worse ways to spend your sunday evening than browsing the @pdimagearchive.bsky.social archive. This is Karl Blossfeldt in 1928 from Urformen der Kunst: pdimagearchive.org/images/fd18d...
A very icy Greenwich Park
January 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A very icy Greenwich Park
I always loved ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)’, was disappointed not to see it included in this show.
January 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I always loved ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)’, was disappointed not to see it included in this show.
The Queen’s House in Greenwich.
January 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The Queen’s House in Greenwich.