You don’t have to force me onto a bike …

One more lane, bro. Just one more lane and traffic will be fixed forever.

mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social@mark-sutcliffe.bsky.social · 2w ago

Investing in Ottawa’s East End roads and infrastructure. Investir dans les routes et les infrastructures de l'Est d'Ottawa.

Tactical #urbanism experiment in #OttCity consisting of an elaborate and baffling array of crates, signs, ropes, and barriers where a few loose tables and chairs would do. Seems to be actively repelling people on Sunday afternoon. This taxpayer would support a staff trip to #Montreal.

WATCH: The BEST public art is MORE than just art — it’s functional too. This really smart integrated art in a recent project in central OSLO draws you in, supports both place-making and way-finding, and reveals all the mid-block nooks and crannies that you might NEVER know about without that art!

The iconic Kikkoman shoyu bottle was designed by Kenji Ekuan, who also contributed to the design of Tokyo's Nagakin Capsule Tower. #design #metabolism Behind it is an angry racist politician attempting to attack China.

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This will be an interminable project. Not only will Mark Carney not live in 24 Sussex's replacement, neither will his successor. Whoever it is may not even be in politics yet, so they might as well get started. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

State of 24 Sussex 'an embarrassment,' says Carney | CBC News

The state of 24 Sussex Drive is "an embarrassment," says Prime Minister Mark Carney, who suggested he wants a decision made about the future of the derelict residence meant for Canada's prime minister...

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This will be an interminable project. Not only will Mark Carney not live in 24 Sussex's replacement, neither will his successor. Whoever it is may not even be in politics yet, so they might as well get started. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

State of 24 Sussex 'an embarrassment,' says Carney | CBC News

The state of 24 Sussex Drive is "an embarrassment," says Prime Minister Mark Carney, who suggested he wants a decision made about the future of the derelict residence meant for Canada's prime minister...

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Full compliance with codes, standards, and applicable regulations. What else do you need?

Carleton Martello Tower progress, with concrete spolia recovered from the WW2 structure starting to go in. The contrast with the new GFRC panels will help tell the story of this unusual site. #heritage #WW2 #saintjohn

Claudia Neri, who designed our firm's website and graphic identity, in conversation about women in Italian graphic design - tinyurl.com/5482rnyh #womenindesign #graphicdesign www.teikna.com

Design As Identity: Milan-based Art Director Claudia Neri in Conversation with Design Writer Pamela Young @ the opening of the exhibition PINK.

DESIGN AS IDENTITY Milan-based Art Director Claudia Neri in Conversation with Design Writer Pamela Young EXHIBITION OPENING PINK Women in Italian Graphic Design. From the Origins to the Present Thursd...

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Taking this news as an excuse to re-post a now 10-year-old sketch of York St as a pedestrian precinct. Thought at the time 2017 celebrations would justify a legacy project and pitched this to various councillors. Instead we got the baffling shipping containers. tinyurl.com/35rrjam4 #urbanism

Northern Italy, 1988

Work well under way on the interior masonry of the Carleton Martello Tower, as the forest of shoring posts start to be removed. #heritage #saintjohn

The AIA’s appeasement campaign under Trump 1.0 made me wonder just how MAGA the profession is in the US, or if it’s just that organization’s leadership. Hope they’re not still employing that strategy but if they are it’s clearly not working for students: www.dezeen.com/2025/11/24/a...

Architecture no longer considered a "professional degree" in USA

Students in the USA will receive lower loans under the terms of the One Big Beautiful Bill as architecture will not be considered a professional degree.

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Not an original idea, but I used ‘Moving Surfaces’ to frame the Aberdeen Pavillion for the ‘Lansdowne’ photo in Andrew Waldron’s architectural guidebook, ‘Exploring the Capital’. The piece does act as a visual and imaginative anchor for the place.

David Reevely@davidreevely.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The contempt the city has shown for this expensive and genuinely impressive piece of art it bought and proudly installed is just perfectly symbolic of how it treats both the public realm and its own investments. ottawacitizen.com/news/artist-...

@bsky.app A few images of Lansdowne 1.0 as depicted by OSEG 15 years ago, and approved by Council. The promised public space was not provided, but is instead large format commercial space. #Ottawa

I am thrilled to introduce Isabel Teramura to the Somerset Ward team as a policy and planning assistant. Isabel has a Master’s degree in Geography, Planning and Environment and specializes in housing policy.

Early mural by my 1st year studio prof Winston Leathers now turning into a ghost sign, posing a #conservation question: let it fade away like many others around it or restore its original 70s pop intensity? #modern #heritage

We are constantly told streets are designed for cars. While this may be true of areas built after WW2, it's obviously not true of central areas which were planned well before their invention. Easy to forget that downtown streets were optimized for walking, riding #bikes and public #transit #Ottawa

Jesus Christ. A standing ovation — from Liberals too — for Charlie Kirk in the Canadian House of Commons. You can (and should) oppose political violence without doing all this, you know.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2y ago

LETS TRY THIS: Quote-post this with a “picture worth a 1000 words” of a scene from another city that exemplifies what you’d like YOUR city to achieve on the way to becoming a much better #CityForPeople. The only word you get to include is the name of the city the scene is from.

I made a gingerbread panopticon

It was disappointing to learn, after watching Conclave, that IRL the Cardinals' apartments in the Vatican were not actually designed by 1930s Marcello Piacentini on acid. #movies #architecture

I called out the Conservative leader who lives in a 19-room mansion at Stornoway for being a sock puppet for Donald Trump. Predatory and pusillanimous. Selling out our country to the likes of Donald Trump. Not on my watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4bd...

Charlie Angus Calls Out Poilievre as Trump Puppet

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. By @abrahm.bsky.social

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”: Climate Change is Already Forcing People From Their Homes

The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.

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The reviews are in. The professional associations representing Ontario’s engineers tinyurl.com/5n6tuxv5 urban planners tinyurl.com/ytj3xuc2 and traffic engineers tinyurl.com/276hzzxd have all come out opposed to Ontario’s proposed law to override local governments and rip out local bike lanes.

You don’t have to be a “cyclist” to support safe bike infrastructure in your city. You don’t have to ride bikes at all. You just have to understand the FACT that bike infrastructure makes getting around easier & safer for EVERYONE, saves us all public money, & makes cities generally more successful.