Dr James O'Leary @OLearyJames Twitter profile

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Dr James O'Leary

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We just submitted the final manuscript of our latest @Kreider_OLeary book to Bloomsbury. It should be published in Dec 2024, all going well! @TheBartlettUCL @BartlettArchUCL

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

2 months

We live in strange times. 4 people were arrested under the Terrorism Act for unfurling this banner for peace outside UCL.

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This seems pretty significant.

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Every region of Scotland backs Scottish independence, according to the latest Ipsos poll. 📢 The power to shape a better future is in your hands. Help us win:

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Some powerful actions today at Nakba Day protests in #UCL Quad. @ucl Divest Now! @UCLAFP @UCL_UCU #GazaGenocide ‌ #FREEPALEST İNE

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Barbican under a full moon.

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OMA. How the mighty have fallen.

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O. M. Unger’s dimensional discipline in Hamburg.

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@franwritescopy @AliFensome @PayGapApp Well done folks. Take a bow. You made my day yesterday.

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Looks like EUSTON station just got a ‘value engineering’ haircut.

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3 years

PhD VIVA PASSED Joy unbound!

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4 years

Wow. As of this morning both @UCL and @RCA are now OCCUPIED by students in solidarity with the @UCU strike. Thank you !! @RcaUcu @UCL_UCU

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Dr James O'Leary

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I am probably a late convert to the excellent @EmpirePodUK with @DalrympleWill , @tweeter_anita . Should be on the UK teaching curriculum! Highly recommended.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

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Nakba Day Staff protests at UCL, supporting BDS. @ucl Divest Now! @UCLAFP @UCL_UCU #GazaGenocide ‌ #FREEPALEST İNE

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2 years

Glory to the heroes… #Ukraine

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@OLearyJames

1 year

Lots of comments on the OMA tweet suggesting that were never interested in or good at detailing. I’m not convinced. Kunstal is a good example.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

11 months

Do check out Christine and the Queens performance at Glastonbury before it disappears. Remarkable intensity and poise. ⁦ @BBC6Music ⁩ ⁦ @BBCiPlayer ⁩

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@OLearyJames

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“They tried to bury me, They did not realise I was a seed.” #Sin éadOConnor

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@OLearyJames

11 months

The city of Berlin’s culture budget (population 7m) for 2024 has been set at €947m. The whole of England’s culture budget (population 57m) for 2024 is £458.5m, Berlin's new culture budget more than double England's arts funding | Euronews

Berlin's new culture budget more than double England's arts spending

Last week Berlin’s Senator for Culture announced a massive amount of funding for the art institutions in Germany's capital, putting the city’s financial support to culture in stark contrast with the...

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@OLearyJames

1 year

This is a great book for enthusiasts of Italian public space. Check out the detail of the stone paving patterns!

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

5 years

50 Years ago today, at 4.30pm construction of the Falls-Shankill #Peacewall started. Here is what it looks like now... #Peacewalls50

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On the longest day of the year, I give you the great solar alignment of my front room. #longestday #solstice

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

8 months

@dieworkwear No one wears Aran like Beckett. Exquisite neckline height and volume.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

8 months

The gulf between design intent and final result of #OMA ’s Factory building in Manchester, is a complete travesty. It’s renaming as ‘Aviva studios’ is a final act of insanity, losing all connection to the originating radical cultural moment that inspired the building.

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@OLearyJames

5 years

Students on the MA Situated Practice @UCLsitprac at The Bartlett, @ucl get one exhibition in London after 15 months of study. They have elected to cover their work in #solidarity with the @ucu strike, until after the strike is over. #ussstrike #Respect . @USSbriefs @UCLprotest

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Dr James O'Leary

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6 years

Nice to bump into @DoorkinsM Magnificat at the sublime #Southwark Cathedral.

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*Not an art #installation * It’s the Unabomber’s hut in an FBI storage facility in Sacramento.

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@OLearyJames

7 years

The problem of the profession of #Architecture , as defined by #OMAs Reinier de Graaf in this months @ArchReview

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@OLearyJames

6 years

Completely Inspirational: ⁦ @Ocasio2018 ⁩ Profile - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - @bbcradio4

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@OLearyJames

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The exquisitely detailed courtroom designed by Carlo #Scarpa in which he appeared as a defendant, accused of exercising his profession without qualification. #Architecture

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@marklamster Strangest of these has to be the external ones in front of University of London. Permanently empty with a giant TV at the end.

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6 years

Richard Murphy’s recent book on #Scarpa ’s #Castelvecchio is probably the best architecture book on a single building in the history of architecture publishing. Monumental.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

3 years

My pension due to drop by 44% under new proposals, and @ucl is happy to support this? Every #USSpension academic should use this tool, and join the @ucu union. @UCL_UCU @LondonUCU

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

6 years

Currently specifying a stone floor, and haunted by the precision of #Lewerentz . Nothing left to chance.

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4 years

The ENDE is nigh. I will submit my #PhD within 24 hours.

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4 years

We are all Mairead McGuinness

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

3 years

Just changed my profile name to: Dr. O’Leary as a mark of pride in finishing my PhD. It may not last long but just testing out how it feels.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

6 years

So proud of my fellow colleagues @BartlettArchUCL who came out in the bitter cold today. #STRIKE TO WIN #ussstrikes #UCLprotest @UCLprotest #uclnews @uclnews @ucu @UCL_UCU

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Dr James O'Leary

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3 years

Rafael #Moneo ’s Murcia town hall addresses the central Cathedral Square so beautifully. An exquisite formal composition in architectural and urban terms. #Architecture

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#FatBoySlim is the master of giving the masses what they want. Absolute Masterclass at #Glasto .

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@OLearyJames

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O. M. Ungers Hamburger Kunstmuseum extension sitting in its appropriate climatic setting.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

5 years

PEACEWALLS 50 An international conference, exhibition and events in #Belfast to mark 50 years since the construction of the first #Peacewall in Northern Ireland.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

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@niamh_journo These should be the campaign posters at the next election.

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@OLearyJames

3 years

We are on strike! !!!!!! @UCLprotest @UCL_UCU @BartlettArchUCL

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

6 years

Layers of #Shibuya Station, #Tokyo Amazing #Drawing in ballpoint pen by Tomoyuki Tanaka, in this month’s @ArchReview

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@OLearyJames

4 years

Would love to see more Art /Architecture collaborations like this great work from 1992 at @IMMAIreland with Brian Maguire / O’Donnell + Tuomey

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“These architectural features are constructed from hand-cut granite, the same material as the cliffs themselves.” Teresa Moller’s Punta Pide project in Chile.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

4 years

Probably around 8 months ago we visited a quarry in Derbyshire to select a seam of stone for the floor of our new home. Today, the stone yard sent through images of the panels prior to shipment. I can’t tell you how happy this makes me.

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@OSaumarezSmith Sorry, but the worlds most astounding building is officially Hitoshi Hara’s Kyoto Station complex. (According to me, obvs)

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Dr James O'Leary

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Flores & Prats #drawings for their Venice Biennial show are wonderful.

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@michaeljswalker Solidarity @faizashaheen Stupid decision @UKLabour

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

2 years

It could all be so different. @ucu @UCL_UCU #UCUstrike

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@OLearyJames

2 years

It’s so disheartening to see the destruction going on at @GoldsmithsUoL at the moment. It’s such a special place that needs to be cherished and applauded for what it does. Well done to @paulaakpan for telling it like it is! Solidarity ✊✊🏼✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻✊🏽✊🏾✊🏻 @GoldsmithsUCU

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Dr James O'Leary

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3 years

Sverre #Fehn ’s beautiful #drawings for #Hedmark Museum featured in ⁦ @ArchReview ⁩ this month. (L) Ground (R) First

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

4 years

Good to see the formwork in place here. Just the concrete pour left now. #WinstonChurchill

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

4 years

A sad day for #Belfast when the prime public space in the city is signed over to developers to build on. Tragic @SaveCQBelfast .

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4 years

Farewell to Writers Square.

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Powerful actions today in #UCL Quad. Nakba Day Staff protests at UCL, supporting BDS. @ucl Divest Now! @UCLAFP @UCL_UCU #GazaGenocide ‌ #FREEPALEST İNE

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Just back from the Barbican having heard Gavin Bryars & Co play “Jesus’ Blood never failed me yet” live for the first time. A work of transcendent genius. We were all in tears.

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Dr James O'Leary

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2 years

So delighted to finally get my hands on this beautiful book. Out of print so it’s been on Amazon for crazy prices. Finally sourced through Oxfam. Win win!

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@OLearyJames

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This looks like a bad rendering. Lewisham deserves better.

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Lewisham Gateway nearing completion. Will finally get that new post up on the site later

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6 years

It’s official. A back extension is more difficult than an art museum. #Architecture

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@OLearyJames

3 years

PhD Viva tomorrow.

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@OLearyJames

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BOOOOOOOOOOM!

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@OLearyJames

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Architecture has been the gift of my life. There is a real satisfaction in living in something that you have designed for those around you. Its beauty unfolds day by day, slowly and quietly.

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@OLearyJames

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Nakba Day Staff protests at UCL, supporting BDS. @ucl Divest Now! @UCLAFP @UCL_UCU #GazaGenocide ‌ #FREEPALEST İNE

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@OLearyJames

1 year

I completely support my colleagues in @UCLSSEES here. This motion was both stupid and insulting @ucu .

SSEES strikes & supports Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Solidarity

@SSEESstrikes

1 year

As @UCU members & ex-members from @UCLSSEES , the UK’s largest centre for the study of Ukraine, Eastern Europe & Russia, we condemn Congress Motion 5’s misrepresentation of the war & UCU’s reluctance to support Ukraine. Please read & share our open letter @DrJoGrady @UCL_UCU

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There is just nothing like walking around a new city for the first time. #Ghent is absolutely jaw dropping. ⁦ @UCLsitprac ⁩ Fieldtrip.

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@OLearyJames

6 years

A big thank you to all members and leadership of @UCL_UCU & @UCLprotest , and to colleagues on the @BartlettArchUCL picket line for your energy and passion over the past few weeks. It has been intense! #UCLprotest @ucu #USSstrike

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@OLearyJames

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A good summary of why, today WE ARE ON STRIKE UCU strike: How UK universities are being destroyed | openDemocracy ⁦ @ucu ⁩ ⁦ @UCL_UCU ⁩ #ucurising

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@OLearyJames

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There is a beautiful record of Jonathan Hill’s teaching on the PhD programme at the Bartlett at the moment, including copies of the PhDs he supervised. An incredible legacy. ⁦ @BartlettArchUCL ⁩

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Nakba Day protests at UCL. @UCLAFP @UCL_UCU #GazaGenocide ‌ #FREEPALEST İNE

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4 years

Looking forward to reading this. ⁦ @shannonmattern ⁩ It’s on the 2020/21 Reading List for ⁦ @UCLsitprac ⁩

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

3 years

Just submitted my final PhD Thesis and feeling like the King of New York!

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@OLearyJames

2 years

@DrJoGrady Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

7 months

I met Shane once in the back bar of Nancy Spain’s on Barrack St in Cork. He came up to me and put a small poundshop sound emitting device up to my ear. It went ‘fuck you’, ‘fuck you’, ‘fuck you’ over and over. He was cracking up laughing at this. Gas man. #ShaneMacGowan

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

5 years

@BrentToderian In a time of crisis in #Belfast , deciding it was a good idea to construct #Peacewalls / defensive Barriers across the city, thereby increasing segregation and truncating mobility for generations. #CityPlanningMistakes

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@OLearyJames

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I watched this late last night in tears. I cannot exaggerate what a hero Sinéad is for my generation of Irish people. Kathryn Ferguson's documentary: Nothing Compares. Watch it and you will know why. #RIPSineadOConnor

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@OLearyJames

2 years

The Quad @ucl has got a very nice vibe to it since the cafe and food vans arrived. More informality please! ⁦ @uclnews ⁩

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@OLearyJames

3 years

Great to see ⁦ @BartlettArchUCL ⁩ Alum Alice Brownfield shortlisted for the MJ Long prize, with infill social housing in Camden by ⁦ @PpeterPeter ⁩. Does not seem so long ago we were having conversations around #DesignRealisation for her final project. Well done Alice!

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6 years

We are definitely having more fun outside than you are inside! @BartlettArchUCL #StrikeBack #USSstrikes

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

7 years

Amazing light in whitstable this morning. Very thin distinction between sea and sky.

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

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Nakba Day protests at UCL, supporting BDS. @ucl Divest Now! @UCLAFP @UCL_UCU #GazaGenocide ‌ #FREEPALEST İNE

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@OLearyJames

4 years

This is great. Warren Ellis on top form with ⁦ @maryannehobbs ⁩ ⁦ @BBC6Music ⁩ Headphones recommended...

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@OLearyJames

5 years

Quickly realising that having half your house propped up on stilts is worrying. 14 weeks of madness ahead. Wish us luck!

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

1 year

Do check out this definitive book on the: H Blocks - An Architecture of the Conflict in and about Northern Ireland by (my wonderful PhD supervisor) Dr. Louise Purbrick

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

5 years

A devastating snapshot of #Belfast 1973, showing the conditions of housing, barricaded areas, and an early version of what would become the ‘ring of steel’ to the city centre.

BBC Archive

@BBCArchive

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#OnThisDay 1973: Luke Casey took a poignant snapshot of Belfast at the height of the Troubles, a city the reporter had never previously visited.

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The ‘lecture room’ in the time of Covid, 2020. Everything has changed so completely in the past 6 months. ⁦ @UCLsitprac ⁩ ⁦ @BartlettArchUCL ⁩

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Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

3 years

Delighted to see this. These are wonderful pieces of work. #CarlesEnrich

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@ArchReview

3 years

Carles Enrich Studio has been announced the winner of the Emerging Architecture awards for their interventions in historical landscapes in Catalonia 🎉 Congratulations! #AR_EA @carles_enrich

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@OLearyJames

2 years

Just come out of #Translations at the Lyric. A couple came up to me…said you were magnificent! I played along. I did not have the heart to say that I am just an audience member, *in awe* like everyone else. #Belfast @AbbeyTheatre @LyricBelfast

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@OLearyJames

10 years

. @olafureliasson 's Riverbed is running. Opens tomorrow at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. http://t.co/wVey7FODtm”

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It could have been #Cork ’s version of Tate Modern. Instead, it will be a pile of dust.

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4 years

100 Day Studio: James O'Leary: INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE: 50 Years of Belfast ‘Peacewalls’. Now on Architecture Foundation #100DayStudio You Tube Channel

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@OLearyJames

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Hi Corkonians! Do come along to my lecture on this Wednesday at 6pm. Details below... @UCC_ArchSoc @CrawfordArtGall @CIT_Crawford @glucksman @RIAIOnline @IAFarchitecture @StudentIrish @CCAE_MArch @fionakearney @JMOShaughnessy @UCDArch @QUBarch @savecorkcity

Dr James O'Leary

@OLearyJames

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Lecture: INTERFACE ARCHITECTURE 50 Years of Belfast Peacewalls A guest Lecture by James O’Leary Assoc. Professor @BartlettArchUCL at Cork Centre for Architectural Education @UCC_ArchSoc Nano Nagle Place, Douglas St, Cork T12 AD7R. Wed 16th Oct, 2019, at 6pm. @CCAE_MArch

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@OLearyJames

2 years

Thanks for highlighting this @TadhgHickey Building walls on the quays would be an act of urban vandalism, changing the unique character of #Cork forever.

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@TadhgHickey

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Would really appreciate an RT on this one. @savecorkcity are doing extraordinary work to save Cork from itself. They're my Friday follow🙏💚

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Today I was meant to be organising a field trip across Belgium and Holland. Instead I am deploying my sign writing skills. #UCUstrike #UCUstrikesback @ucu

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3 years

Alternating courses/faces of stone jointing on these columns... Sublime. #Lewerentz

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@OLearyJames

4 years

Everyone striking at #UCL come to 22 Gordon Street / the Bartlett for a rally at 12 noon! ⁦ @UCL_UCU ⁩ @ucu #UCUstrikes

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@OLearyJames

4 years

Having organised many students to partake in Erasmus+ programmes, and seen the obvious benefits, this is a very generous gesture from the Irish government, and a positive sign of cross border relations in Ireland.

RTÉ News

@rtenews

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The Irish Government is to fund the Erasmus+ scheme for Northern Ireland students as the UK leaves the EU

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3 years

The acoustic DNA at the centre of #Scharoun ’s Philharmonie. Berlin 1956-63

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@OLearyJames

10 months

Well said @PpeterPeter !

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

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Peter Barber, an award-winning architect who focuses on urbanism and social housing, outlines what he thinks can be done to solve the social housing crisis

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ANOTHER UNIVERSITY IS POSSIBLE Great teach outs at the UCL gates today. ⁦ @ucu ⁩ @ucl ⁦ @uclnews ⁩ ⁦ @UCLprotest ⁩ ⁦ @UCL_UCU ⁩ #ucu #ucustrikes

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Hello @ucl . Are you seriously suggesting you cannot #endthedispute when the University is in such rude financial health? ⁦ The facts are hard to argue with. @uclnews ⁩ @ucu ⁦ @UCL_UCU ⁩

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