Not many new developments do this. Architecture so good you put it on your advertisement.
For too long, Croydon has been the poster child for what happens when “traffic modernism” is allowed to rip the heart out of a historic town.
Our founder Nicholas Boys Smith was in Rome last week, speaking on the ecology of everyday streets at the CNAPPC Conference on new paradigms of urban life: proximity, well-being in cities and territories. You can check out his talk over on our YouTube channel youtube.com/watch?v=_YAC...
Nicholas Boys Smith - The ecology of everyday streets | CNAPPC Conference, Rome
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Join us this year for the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture Summer School, and find inspiration with like-minded individuals in the beautiful setting of Sherborne, Dorset. Our early bird discount deadline ends April 1st! www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-pla...
Our latest report in partnership with @createstreets.bsky.social, funded by RAC Foundation & written by @freewheeling.info, examines if a French-style tram-enabled housing model could work here. Read the report👉https://bettertransport.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2603-Towns-and-Trams-report.pdf
Should YIMBYs Build Beautiful? Get your tix now for @robertkwolek.bsky.social of @createstreets.bsky.social Wednesday, 18:30; The Wheatsheaf, Fitzrovia www.eventbrite.com/e/robert-kwo...
Housing targets have doubled. New NPPF rules demand vision-led planning, new parking standards and better streets. Yet housing and transport still clash at adoption stage. Join our free webinar on delivering streets from vision to adoption. www.tickettailor.com/events/creat...
New English planning rules insist upon Gentle Density in brownfield sites & within 800m of well connected train stations. But what does that mean? And how do you make it?
"Poundbury is exceptional. It also has faults. Of course it does. It is made by humans, after all." “It is a town, not a housing estate. This distinguishes Poundbury from any other development of the last 80 years...
New English planning rules insist upon Gentle Density in brownfield sites & within 800m of well connected train stations. But what does that mean? And how do you make it?
New social housing in Islington from around 2010 (yes, really).
We can design, we can afford & we can create beautiful new streets & places. Observe how some gable ends, properly detailed windows & a brick floor make all the difference here. Little things. Modest costs. And yet they transform the loveless into the lovely.
🚨Tomorrow. Hackney’s Planning Committee faces a choice that matters well beyond Shoreditch. Supporting Shoreditch Works would signal that London backs good growth in the right places, growth that strengthens streets, supports jobs and contributes to the long-term health of the city.
How did we ban beauty by mistake? You can read our latest report Banning Beauty featured prominently in the @telegraph.co.uk
What a happy looking home and garden. Observe the details & coherence which lifts the house from a wall with nine holes to something worth looking at.
As the days begin to get longer, the countdown to the Create Streets Foundation Urban Design and Architecture Summer School begins! Will you be joining us? ➡️https://createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating-places-academy/summer-school/ #summerschool #urbandesign #architecture
We're growing the team! Are you passionate about designing streets and places that people actually want to live in? We're looking for talented people who care about creating beautiful, human-scale urban environments:
Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.
Trinity House, Trinity Square. 1941 and today. What is unmade may be remade.
Check out our director Nicholas Boys Smith MBE on The Critic Show last week talking about the construction and restoration of the Palace of Westminster. You can watch it here www.outpoststudios.net/p/the-palace...
The Palace of Westminster is Falling Down.
And other tales of architectural misadventure
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The best streets have enclosure & variety in a pattern.
Struggling to think of a Christmas present for the urbanists & artists in your life? Check out the upcoming Create Streets Foundation short courses! Gentle Density Masterclass - www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/creating_gen... Dare to Draw - www.createstreetsfoundation.org.uk/dare-to-draw/
This slice of Paris is new. Every mote of it. New homes & places don't need to be loveless. We chose to create ugly places because we don't ask: is this humane? Is this lovely? Is this kind? But we can afford to. If we dare to slip the surly bonds. Read more - www.createstreets.com/projects/com...
CAMBRIDGE: New data. Clear preferences. The public want buildings that fit in, not stick out. A new poll by DeltapollUK Create Streets finds 71% of Britons prefer a traditional alternative to the current design for the Christ’s College library.
Is this best news for city creation for over a century? In Solano County, California (California Forever) is attempting something fascinating: a unified-landowner model to build what might become “the finest piece of urbanism at that scale” for over 100 years .... 🧵
What a joy to behold. Gloucester's 26 Westgate ('Old Judges House'), and England's largest timber-framed townhouse has been repaired thanks to a grant from Historic England. Approaching 500 years old, it's now home to the Gloucester Antiques Centre. Long may she thrive...
Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. But, what was destroyed may be reforged as our friends in glorious Dresden are demonstrating. This is new. Every gold stone of it.
Have just seen this great little article on German trams by @robertkwolek.bsky.social of @createstreets.bsky.social www.createstreets.com/the-country-...
The Country That Never Tore Up Its Tracks - Create Streets
By Robert Kwolek Germany may be the land of Autobahns and Audis, but its true urban workhorse is the Straßenbahn, or ‘street […]
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Our generation’s gift to London. YES, YES, YES to new homes but this is not loving or respectful to places or their people. Meanwhile, less manacled by group think, Paris in the same decade is building…
