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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

4 months

I have a new piece of writing out today on @RecessedSpace , thinking about architectural automation, Zaha’s legacy, AI models, hidden labour, Create Streets and anxiety about our collective architectural imagination:

recessed.space:

A repository for writing about art and architecture

recessed.space

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

mock tudor tending towards Cartesian space on the Isle of Wight

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Almost impossible to capture the total weirdness of the National Lift Tower, Northampton - a 127.5 metre tall tower for testing elevator systems, built 1978–82 and now stranded in the middle of a housing estate like something truly otherworldly

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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The most extreme example I've ever seen of using soft brick stock with hard cement mortar! Apparently from a building near Ramsgate in Kent, the effect is extremely spooky and quite beautiful, although I can't imagine it will stay standing for much longer

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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was amazed to come across this train station in suburban Berlin completely by chance — a remarkable almost-copy of Charles Holden's Southgate station on the Piccadilly Line, but apparently it only opened a few months after its London twin in the summer of 1933!

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Who will stop the continuing dark-grey-ification of Zone 3?

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Astonishing photograph of the light in old Euston station taken in 1929 by Harry Moult, an electrical engineer from New Zealand who took up photography in the 20s as part of the 'Wellington Camera Circle'

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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A privilege to introduce @mcmansionhell to a menu of the most sicko buildings in London

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 years

If you're hunting something architectural to watch from lockdown, an anonymous hero uploaded almost every Jonathan Meades documentary here: - I wrote about Meades during my MA, so I might share some choice transcribed quotes and screenshots below

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Very expressive brick-arched external staircase on Grafton Chambers, Somers Town

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

I was lucky enough to visit Auguste Perret's church of St Joseph in Le Havre yesterday, and I can't remember the last time a building had such a raw, emotional effect on me, particularly the incredible colours in the stained glass by Marguerite Huré

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Beinecke Library at Yale, New Haven, by Gordon Bunshaft of SOM, opened 1963 — surely the best and most influential major research library of the 20th-century, it is such a perfect box of a building and I had the privilege of visiting for PhD reasons and to ogle the architecture

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

RIP Richard Rogers, so many amazing projects, but always loved the Channel 4 headquarters which packs all the fun of the fair via Chernikov into a little corner of Westminster

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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6 months

@RobertKwolek I’ve lived in postwar modernist social housing in London and I just think you are so wrong here — generous interiors, lots of storage, dual aspect, great views, lots of green space in the estate - certainly better than what the private sector has generally provided since

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Overjoyed to find this beautiful gate in rural Kent by complete chance on a drive today, missing one bulging column, but otherwise pretty good condition — I would guess mid-17thC, but keen to hear any other guesses?

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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10 months

An inspiring lesson in communal housing designed in 1919 by Michel de Klerk, Het Schip (“The Ship”) incorporated 102 housing cooperative homes, a socialist meeting hall, a post office and a school, in the flamboyant, curvaceous, playful language of the ‘Amsterdam School’

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Truly brilliant pair of scale models showing how much changed in terms of the structural logic of French architecture between late-11th century Cluny and early-13th century Beauvais — we may well know this story, but amazing to see them contrasted at matching scales like this

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

Cannot stress enough how catastrophic the all too common standard of housing delivery in this country has become

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Green Walls do not show a meaningful commitment to sustainability; they are marketing

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This was a flagship green store for @marksandspencer when it opened on Ecclesall Road with this living wall a big part of that. What do you think of it now? And what does it say about the firm's commitment to sustainability?

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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the first image that comes up when you google Plečnik is now this AI-generated caricature — none of the buildings in the image really resemble anything he designed! Not a good sign for the future of reliable internet searching

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Deliciously wonky Georgian

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

Finally losing my already tenuous grip on reality in the Poundbury Waitrose

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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11 months

Some very well-mannered new buildings for Pembroke College Cambridge by @haworthtompkins - lots of oak, the by now ubiquitous allusive gable end, lovely light, nice rounded corner on the brick of the street facade - solid feeling

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

To celebrate finishing year 1 of my PhD I got my first tattoo! It is a niche from the north wall of Nicholas Hawksmoor’s St Mary Woolnoth in London and I love it very much

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Outrageously good cantilevered sculptural projector booth in Colin St John Wilson and Alex Hardy’s 1959 architecture lecture theatre in Cambridge — rip the lantern slide!!

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 months

Nobody does fireplaces quite like Frank Lloyd Wright

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unbelievably special birthday trip to Anglesey to visit to ancient churches cared for by @friendschurches

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Totally unique and verdant housing by Jean Renaudie in Ivry-sur-Seine, the stronghold of the French Communist Party in the southeast of Paris, built in a series of phases mostly through the 1970s

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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8 months

RIP Jean Baudrillard you would have loved this

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There’s a new fun ride at the Top of the Rock in Rockefeller Center, New York City, called “The Beam” ✨. You recreate the iconic classic photo of the construction workers sitting on the steel beam. Would you do this?

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Thrilled to share that I'm moving to Cambridge this autumn to start a PhD on architectural perception and reception in Britain from the mid-17th to mid-18thC as part of the new Centre for Classical Architecture at Downing College, supervised by Frank Salmon

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Inevitable but depressing to see the visionary socialist ethic of Ernö Goldfinger’s Balfron Tower repackaged for Instagram adverts by the developer that turfed out social housing tenants through deception

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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10 months

How am I only just learning that much of the steel of Berlin's Palast der Republik after the demolition was shipped out to Dubai to be used in the Burj Khalifa?

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Unbelievable depiction of the west front of Old St Paul’s cathedral, in pen and wash attributed to Thomas Wyck, after it was refaced with Classical details by Inigo Jones before it burnt down in 1666

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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The containerisation of UK ports was only forced through against the National Dock Labour Board because Trinity College, Cambridge had bought a small fishing harbour at Felixstowe for a fellow who liked to holiday there and from 1967 turned it into the biggest port in the UK

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Extremely sad signs of dilapidation at Thomas Fulljames’ Grade II* listed 1844–8 North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum) — compulsorily purchased by Denbighshire Council in 2018, I’ve heard rumours about turning it into a hotel and flats, but no sign of anything yet

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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The remarkable Hilversum Town Hall by W.H. Dudok, completed in 1931. The horizontality of Frank Lloyd Wright combined with what John Summerson called “an exquisite sense of form” which has “enabled him to avoid many of the trite mannerisms current in modern Dutch architecture”.

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 months

I am so FLW-pilled

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wingspread (1939) in Wind Point, WI

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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The Stirling Prize-nominated Cambridge Central Mosque, by Marks Barfield Architects, with structural timber piers woven into geometric patterns reminiscent of traditional Islamic architecture

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 years

This piece by Sir Muirhead Bone (1907), in pencil(!), of scaffolding inside the reading room of the @britishmuseum never fails to knock me back on my feet

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

a rare victory against the developers, the 1920s Carlton Tavern was half-demolished without a permit 6 years ago, and the council forced the developer to rebuild it brick-by-brick! You can see the line between the old and new brickwork in this photo

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 months

@PhinHarper English local authorities stop selling off the family silver at way below market value challenge, difficulty: impossible

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The English built environment never ceases to amaze me

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Arid Brutalism at Denys Lasdun’s University of East Anglia campus completed 1970 — struggle to imagine how hot the ziggurat rooms must get in this kind of weather

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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totally blown away by the textures and visceral age of Brixworth Church: lots of the fabric survives from the original 7th century Abbey, including these spectacularly weighty arches made out of Roman tiles from a nearby Villa — these might be my new favourite facades in Britain

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Despite decades of deliberate under-maintenance by its owners, there is still something so thrilling about Stirling’s Florey Building, the last of the ‘Red Trilogy’ built 1968–71; it’s Grade II* listed but currently mothballed, maybe time for a sympathetic renovation??

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

'We think that concrete, exposed, always has to be mean and messy. But look at the grand sweep of this: strength and—ultimately—elegance.' - I wrote this piece for @tribunemagazine about Preston Bus Station, brutalist conservation and the Preston Model.

The Art of Preston Bus Station

Preston Bus Station isn’t just an iconic brutalist structure, it’s a reminder of a time when planning was bold – and public transport infrastructure was a symbol of the future.

tribunemag.co.uk

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 months

I can’t believe that Google are going to turn this primary colour cathedral of a building into a big beige blob — everything wrong with ‘good taste’ in architecture today

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

New owners have to be made to pay for it to be rebuilt exactly as it was — otherwise it is yet further incentive for developers to commit blatant arson of historic buildings for profit. scum of the earth. below contempt.

Cllr Andrew Tromans

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Ruthless doesn't even begin to cover it... I dare say the good people of Dudley Borough will not take this iconoclasm lying down.

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

There are few things in Cambridge quite like Gillespie, Kidd and Coia’s Robinson College: Alvar Aalto-ish megastructure, John Piper stained glass and gorgeous intricate brickwork leaves the whole thing feeling like a cross between an Italian hill fort and a Baltic brick church

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

Building for eternity

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 years

Bricked up tracery, eroded sedilia(?) and the memory of an idol niche at the ruins of the former Carmelite monastery in Denbigh, now hidden away at the end of a residential cul-de-sac

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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10 months

this guy celebrates the demolition of top-notch post-war buildings whilst his header image looks like this, give your head a wobble

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

I can’t stop thinking about Carlo Scarpa’s Tomba Brion

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Obsessed with the powerful graphic quality of Adam Kossowski’s 1965 ceramic mural depicting the history of the Old Kent Road, commissioned by the Borough of Camberwell for North Peckham Civic Centre: from Roman invasion to Jack Cade Rebellion, Restoration & Pearly King and Queen

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

I wrote this piece about the documentaries of Jonathan Meades, why people love him so much, and his strange, contradictory but valuable vision of what architecture is and what it could be

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

3 years

The television of Jonathan Meades is driven by a democratising impulse – stressing the importance and strangeness of the places where most people in Britain actually live.

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

I am teaching my first ever undergraduate seminar tomorrow, a class on how to spot Post-Modernism, Venturi Scott Brown, Jencks etc... I find myself obsessively returning to the Farrell TV-am drawings and those insane interiors — my god what a loss

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Think the proportions are a bit off here

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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can't stop thinking about what it would have been like to eat hash browns and beans in this bad boy before the dream of a better future died (when Little Chef went bust)

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

It’s just sitting in the middle of a roundabout right in the middle of the estate! It was designed by Maurice Walton of Stimpson Walton Bond, it’s Grade II-listed and quite a marvel

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Visited the Central Hill Estate today, built 1967–74 by a Lambeth Council team led by Rosemary Stjernstedt and Roger Westman. It sits on a very hilly site, and makes the most of it, with dramatic terraces of white brick, tinted glazing and concrete stacked up the slopes.

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

The headquarters of the French Communist Party in Paris, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, 1966–71 — one of the best carpets I’ve ever seen

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

Three beautiful 1950s murals by Patricia Tew at Templewood School in Welwyn Garden City, depicting the stories of St Nicholas, The Selfish Giant and a third subject I can’t identify? The school is 1950 Grade II*-listed from Hertfordshire County Council, precast concrete panels

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

@joncstone WG Sebald on the Palais de Justice

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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5 months

@eleanordotcomm resonances with Raphael Samuel's writing about the Victorian industrial revolution:

The lost worlds of Raphael Samuel

Popular history had one of its most eloquent advocates in Raphael Samuel, who deserves recognition as a major force in English letters.

engelsbergideas.com

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 months

Very won over by the Henry Hinds Geophysical Sciences lab at UChicago by IW Colburn (completed 1969), which breaks with the overwhelmingly goth campus by drawing on Iranian Wind Towers for incredibly expressive circulation and outrageously tasty brick

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

95 Peckham Road by @PpeterPeter looking very handsome under blue skies today

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Some random Italian guy entering Bernini’s Cornaro Chapel for the first time in the 1660s:

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@DrewFromTV

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#Phish at the #Sphere I swear I just talked to God I would give you all my money, stick my dick in a blender and swear off pussy for the rest of my life in exchange for this. Bro I met God tonight for real. I feel like I just got saved by Jesus no lie

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

I wrote this article about Grenfell, the UK construction industry, value-engineering and snagging videos on TikTok — a reflection on what is broken with systems of procurement, construction and contract tendering in this country

Tribune

@tribunemagazine

2 years

The Grenfell Tower tragedy had many causes – but at its heart was the contractually-enforced neglect in the British construction industry.

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Not yet disproven

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In summary: Frank Lloyd Wright, a very good architect

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Tom Harwood’s definition of listing, that it should only apply to buildings that couldn’t be built today is obviously wrongheaded but also fascinating, I can’t stop thinking about his criteria that we shouldn’t list anything that “could be built today”

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Northern lights in the sky over Cambridge

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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How wide is too wide for a fanlight?

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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this new execrable collection in Lewisham has to be in with a fighting chance

The Fence Magazine

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3 months

It's back, baby. We're relaunching the grandest prize in architecture. Share your bad buildings here, or to the email below.

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

🌈 rainbow classicism on this jug from the 1770s depicting the market cross at Barnard Castle, with the inscription ‘One Jug More Then’, implying it was probably used for beer in a pub

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Something about this lettering really does it for me

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 years

The Circle of Lebanon at Highgate Cemetery, a sunken ring of tombs, originally surmounted by a vast cedar tree, an atmospheric moment of Victorian Biblical reification — uniform Egyptian/Greek doors, but posthumous rivalry in the materials, from rendered brick to red granite

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

Rich and variegated classicisms of King’s Lynn, from Henry Bell’s Custom House, 1683 (‘one of the most perfect buildings ever built’, N. Pevsner) to the Corn Exchange, 1854 by the local firm Cruso & Maberley, remodelled in the 90s by Levitt Bernstein

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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3 years

Love this incised brick crocodile

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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@LegoRacers2 100%, recommend Mad Men’s ‘The Doorway’ for 60s Vietnam parallels

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Does any museum tie together Roman, Medieval and 21st century fabric as elegantly as the Musée de Cluny? Never seen anything quite like it

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Lovely Borromini drawings of La Sapienza and iterating geometric plans for San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane on show at the Zürich Landesmuseum (ashamed to admit I didn’t know Borromini and many prominent architects of the Italian baroque were born in modern day Switzerland!)

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Particularly egregious façadism of the old Cock a Hoop Tavern in Spitalfields bolted onto a nondescript block of student flats without even bothering to properly line up the windows

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

The quite unique St James' Great Packington by Joseph Bonomi the Elder, 1789–92, with extremely massive Roman brickiness, Diocletian windows and dreamy corner turrets — there's a bit of Hawksmoor, Palladio, Ledoux, Fischer von Erlach?? Impossible to pin down in the best way

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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sensitive intervention to the historic fabric

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In the village where I grew up, there was an urban legend about a grand Victorian house, built by a mad man high on the North Downs out of fear of Noah's Flood (he kept a boat on his roof), whose vast house was demolished during the Blitz because it was a landmark for bombers 🧵

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

I want to eat John Outram’s chunky nougat terrazzo

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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4 years

Watched 'Architecture at the Crossroads: Houses fit for People' (1986), a really fascinating insight into the public discourse around mass housing in the mid-80s, mellifluously narrated by Andrew Sachs. Well worth a watch if you haven't seen it: (thread)

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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An amazing aerial photo of Kings Cross and St Pancras from Geoffrey Tyack’s new book, ‘The Making of our Urban Landscape’, which I’m enjoying very much

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Extremely sad to find Coleg Harlech, with it’s theatre by Colwyn Foulkes, George Henry Walton’s Plas Wernfawr and a subtly Corbusian residential block all boarded up and overgrown - grade ii* listed but no clear future in sight

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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1 year

this from @mcmansionhell is a must-read, and particularly sharp on the specific hypocrisies of the firms taking blood money from MBS to work on NEOM whilst performing radical rhetoric, and the failure of architecture to hold to its purported values

Line in the Sand | Kate Wagner

Saudi Arabia is building a dystopian city of the future in the desert. A crop of prestigious architecture firms have signed up to help make it a reality.

thebaffler.com

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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2 years

Perfect on a hot day, the cool stone of Norwich cathedral, complete with some of the best preserved 13th century wall-paintings anywhere in the UK, featuring Mary in bold ultramarine blue and a coy angel gesturing to a long lost reredos

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Matthew Lloyd Roberts

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Thinking this morning about tarmac palimpsests and what they say about us

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Beautiful scale model of BBPR’s Torre Velasca, Milan in the post-war Italian architecture room of the Pompidou Centre - the jettying, a deliberate reference to the fortifications of Castello Sforzesco give it such a strong massing, one of the best-proportioned skyscrapers ever?

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Gorgeous Ammonite capitals at Carlton Cottages on the Old Kent Road, dated 1829 — the Ammonite Order was invented by George Dance, popularised by John Nash and Brighton based architect and fossil collector Amon(-nite) Wilds, part of the early 19thC craze for anything fossilised

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The truly miraculous Chiesa di Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice - built 1481–9 by Pietro Lombardo - it’s one of the first truly Renaissance buildings in the city, but in the detailing and the bookmatched marble it is so ethereal and uncynical, a proper jewellery box of a building

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Thrilled to share that I have been awarded the @GeorgianGroup Dunscombe Colt Research Fellowship in Architectural History this year and will be spending a month this summer at @bodleianlibs working on my PhD research, towards a "social history of architectural perception"

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Always loved the rag stone, the chunky doorways and the mixing of historic fabric and new interventions in Edwin Lutyens’s 1936 Campion Hall, Oxford

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At Little Walsingham, was astonished to find labelled fragments of masonry from demolished abbeys and monasteries all over the country embedded into the walls of the 1931 reconstruction of the 11thC shrine to Mary, 'England's Nazareth', which was demolished in 1538

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Lovely wooden scale models of Andrea Palladio’s villas exhibited en masse in the exceptional Palladio Museum, Vicenza

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The English built environment still never ceases to amaze

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If you're in Berlin, there's a very compact and charming free exhibition of modernist furniture at the Czech embassy, which is itself a thing of beauty

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