Picked up a copy of architecture magazine Squinch in London last week. It's a refreshing and often funny read, especially the essays by Lily Flashman on Milton Keynes and @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social on Glasgow's Wyndford
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Urban Movement's Christopher Martin in @dezeen.com today arguing for less paranoia and more spaces for young people in our cities >> www.dezeen.com/2026/09/23/t...
"We remove places where young people can gather in small groups, then panic when they gather in large ones"
Paranoia over so-called "teen takeovers" ignores the fundamental problem: that our cities have left young people with nowhere to go, writes Christopher Martin.
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Scotland’s fires provide many lessons for the heritage sector - @memckeague.bsky.social of the @archhfund.org.uk in BDOnline today www.bdonline.co.uk/opinion/scot...
Scotland’s fires provide many lessons for the heritage sector
Tragic events in Glasgow should prompt a UK-wide reckoning about maintenance, funding and what genuine regeneration requires, writes Matthew Mckeague, chief executive of the Architectural Heritage Fun...
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Really enjoyed Pub Typology talk by architects Dress For The Weather at The Laurieston for Glasgow Doors Open Days yesterday @gbptrust.bsky.social
Coming down to London for Camden Inspire festival later this month. Be a weekend of creative climate action, workshops, foraging, some excellent panel discussion, and even a climate pub quiz with myself & @robfiehn.bsky.social Check it out here www.camdeninspire.com
Camden Inspire
Camden Inspire Festival is an annual community celebration taking place this year on Saturday 26th September.
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Wondered round Brutalist Craigforth Campus outside Stirling today. Built in the 1970s it’s in demolition limbo since being vacated in 2022.
"The least polluting countries are paying the price of climate change." Nepali climate delegate Manjeet Dhakal (a representative of the Least Developed Countries group at the UNFCCC) speaks to BBC Radio 4.
City of Sweat by @arunacsekhar.bsky.social article & photos on Mumbai's heatwaves for @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/cit...
City of Sweat • EQUATOR
A vision of our overheated future on the streets of Mumbai
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This five year old boy who lost his life was autistic and had no awareness of danger. The family was housed on the 15th floor. This is utterly shocking. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/mother-... a
Mother of five-year-old boy who fell from council tower block says death was preventable, inquest hears
Inquest proceedings began this week into the death of a five-year-old boy who fell from the 15th floor of a Newham Council tower block in east London.
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“Weizman shows how Israel’s invasion of Gaza included an intentional, systematic plan of destroying the conditions for Palestinian life and rebuilding the land into something available for Israeli resettlement.” I review Eyal Weizman’s new book @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/04/g...
The Architecture of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
A new book describes the destruction of Palestinian life street by street.
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Rebuild The Mack campaign shared this fascinating dive into the numbers, funding and insurance of the fires & rebuild by Robyne Calvert - read here: robynecalvert.com/2026/07/27/m...
Mind the Gap: Why is the Mack Rebuild Underfunded?
Do you think the Mack was improperly insured? Are you confused about the whole thing? Then this post will hopefully help. Dangerous subtitle: Cultural Historian Explains the Secret Life of Insuranc…
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Scottish architect Ruairidh Moir has launched a campaign to rebuild the fire-torn Glasgow School of Art, calling on "an independent body to own and take forward the project". https://www.dezeen.com/2026/08/03/glasgow-school-of-art-campaign/
Scottish architect launches campaign for Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt
Scottish architect Ruairidh Moir has launched a campaign calling for the fire-torn Glasgow School of Art to be rebuilt.
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I've set out my alternative proposal for the Rotterdam Shift Embassy: www.dezeen.com/2026/08/03/r...
We have recently started a Substack called Biggest Issue. For our latest, I asked councils with the most households in temporary accommodation how they spent their homelessness prevention funding. It offers an insight Burnham’s push for prevention. Give it a read: substack.com/@bigissueuk?...
Big Issue Editors | Substack
Biggest Issue is your way to go deeper into Big Issue’s leading reporting, campaigning and direct impact on communities up and down the UK.
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I'm not qualified to judge whether such people are psychopaths. All I can say is that they behave as if they are. From today's Telegraph.
The doors of culture shall be opened ... and sold off to the highest bidder. So depressing. www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auctio...
Bobby Jewell@bobbyjewell.bsky.social · 2mo agoTerrible update this, looks like CCA Archive is now just selling off all of it's archive, furniture and materials. It takes such effort to be this disrespectful to Glasgow's art community. A real shame. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2641379...
Terrible update this, looks like CCA Archive is now just selling off all of it's archive, furniture and materials. It takes such effort to be this disrespectful to Glasgow's art community. A real shame. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2641379...
Buyers sought for Glasgow's unique arts archive
Art lovers, collectors, institutions and anyone with an interest in Glasgow‘s creative heritage will be able to purchase a major piece of it now…
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Bobby Jewell@bobbyjewell.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo disappointing to end the week seeing the CCA up for sale. There's a real feel for betrayal of Glasgow arts scene in how underhanded & unnecessary this all is. Some believe the police presence at Pro-Palestine events was just a pretext to rush the sale of the space. 👎 g-s.co.uk/properties/p...
Enjoyed the launch of exhibition Watersheds by Louise Welch & @judebarber.bsky.social hosts of Who Owns the Clyde. On at The Briggait along with works by @chrislesliephoto.bsky.social and many others www.glasgowlife.org.uk/whats-on/mer...
So disappointing to end the week seeing the CCA up for sale. There's a real feel for betrayal of Glasgow arts scene in how underhanded & unnecessary this all is. Some believe the police presence at Pro-Palestine events was just a pretext to rush the sale of the space. 👎 g-s.co.uk/properties/p...
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Bobby Jewell@bobbyjewell.bsky.social · 2mo agoSave the CCA and now Rebuild the Mack. Grassroots campaigns for essential spaces sprouting up all too often in Glasgow this year. rebuildthemack.com
The Architectural Review, Special Number - Plants Indoors, May 1952. Designed by Frederick Henri Kay Henrion with inner drawings by Gordon Cullen. designreviewed.com/artefacts/th... #fhkhenrion #britishdesign #henrion
I'm over in my favorite European design mag, Landezine, this week to talk about my new book (due out in 2 weeks!), design culture and capitalism, and the small but important role we might play in responding to the climate crisis. landezine.com/building-pos...
Billy Fleming: We Need a Wider Aperture – Landscape Architecture Platform | Landezine
Interview with Billy Fleming on landscape architecture’s service to capital and what design could become in a just postcarbon transition: moving beyond he…
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Save the CCA and now Rebuild the Mack. Grassroots campaigns for essential spaces sprouting up all too often in Glasgow this year. rebuildthemack.com
REBUILD THE MACK!
REBUILD THE MACK!
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Rumours of a facade retention is a genius bit of misdirection from GSA comms-wise. It will make their actual decision look benevolent in comparison. 🫠
The Glasgow Bell@glasgowbell.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt might finally be game over for the Mackintosh building. We've got an update on its future. Plus, why the sale of Martyrs Public School fell through, and more pews news in this CRM special www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-scho...
A really interesting dive by @everebecca.bsky.social into what the Commonwealth Games has done for Glasgow's regeneration plans, as the Games prepare for a return to the city www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/rege...
Regeneration 20 years on: how has the Commonwealth Games changed Glasgow?
The Commonwealth Games was meant to kick off regeneration in Glasgow’s East End. The games are returning – but how much has been accomplished? Eve Livingston reports
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Thanks to @wallpapermag.bsky.social for an interview filled with super interesting questions, going in depth on our mission to “turn the world’s everyday sounds into a global artwork”. www.wallpaper.com/travel/citie...
The Albanians are Calling Architects Out - must read report this on Edi Rama's Starchitect-led construction boom in Albania and the mass protests against them www.archined.nl/2026/07/the-...
The Albanians are Calling (Architects Out) – Archined
A situated review of The Albanian Calls and The Albanian Files, the role of internationally renowned architects and their relationship with prime minister Edi Rama, and the ongoing mass protests.
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Was on Monocle Radio last Friday talking about sound of heatwaves in London and listening practice a way to rethink our approach to climate crisis. On at 10mins monocle.com/player/?uuid=e6127ab7-b81e-456b-893c-a8d600215365%2C0f0ce1c1-23b1-48a2-84a1-ab8a012011f4%2C7a6dc61e-b10b-46af-ac24-b48300bc692e
Bobby Jewell@bobbyjewell.bsky.social · 3mo agoI'll be in London this Saturday 11 July talking heatwaves and sound for this workshop at London’s Climate Story Bank. Last day of the exhibition so come down to @recessedspace.bsky.social x Hypha Studios. Eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sound-disc...
Princes Street fire – Heritage society call for oversight of next stages The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland has written to the Chief Planning Officer of The City of… https://theedinburghreporter.co.uk/2026/07/princes-street-fire-heritage-society-call-for-oversight-of-next-stages/
Princes Street fire – Heritage society call for oversight of next stages
The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland has written to the Chief Planning Officer of The City of Edinburgh Council, David Givan, after the fire on Princes Street earlier today, calling for a Conservation Accreditation Register of Engineers (CARE) engineer to be appointed to oversee what happens to the building. The letter reads as follows: "Dear Mr Givan 109 - 111 Princes Street, Edinburgh We are all disappointed that this major fire has occurred on Princes Street in an area with a high concentration of important listed buildings. Originally the Palace Hotel, designed by John Lessels in 1869, converted to the Liberal Club in 1890, the upper floors were latterly part of Debenhams.
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