Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall Twitter profile

Last Seen Profiles

@saeednagudu

@bokeplokalmalam

@ymy_56

@stwmaniax

@alsltan70243132

@allinnius

@SafeFireDirect

@AlabedAamer

@drkamilofficial

@ALAKJACKSON

@zeekodatjit

@KevinSpac

@BastiMenket

@s_c16_

@gayindoBT

@NadiaSminate

@bokeplokalmalam

@L2030n

@bokeplokalmalam

@LitaVtuber

@mahabadkamil

@bokeplokalmalam

@FBerktay

@ana__pich

@Takv_x

@allistocracy

@DadSonFantasies

@Stormwin_Rouen

@nen6F

@bokeplokalmalam

@AshutoshPratih4

@ChrisNotWalken

@DINGO40378066

@RichoFN

@FranceneTo43669

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

France is not fucking around New legislation demands all *existing* carparks with 80 or more spaces must install a solar roof (in 3-5 years) This could generate up to 11 gigawatts, which is the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors

France to require all large parking lots to be covered by solar panels

France's Senate just approved legislation requiring all parking lots, current and future, to be covered in solar panels.

electrek.co

1K

12K

61K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

8 months

This is *also* what European cities looked like a century ago (London 1925)

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

8 months

This is what great European cities looked like a century ago... (thread) 🧵 1. London (1930s)

582

6K

39K

200

3K

33K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 years

Street in Macau. Photograph by Paul Tsui, National Geographic travel photographer of the year contest

164

8K

23K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

Air conditioning units at the SMDC Shore Residences, Manila, Philippines

188

2K

23K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

7 months

This is the ‘missing middle’ I want to see… Vert apartments, Akimoto, 1982

41

2K

23K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

New architecture style just dropped … mass timber brutalism By Charlap, Hyman & Herrero, Montana

326

942

16K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

A remarkable graphic Frontover fatalities (where drivers accidentally run over small children) have increased 3,800% in the last 30 years in the US Whatever could be causing this?

263

4K

16K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

Iranian architect Farshad Mehdizadeh is designing some of the most interesting mid-housing anywhere in the world right now A thread 🧵 Tabriz residential apartments

141

2K

16K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 years

Street in Hyderabad advertising a serious amount of Autocad services

154

2K

12K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

10 months

I’ve said it before, but few places seem to be doing mid-rise housing as well as in Iran This example by Pargar Architecture

89

931

12K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 years

Kowloon Walled City. A team of Japanese researchers spent time until the night before it was demolished measuring and drawing the building, creating this incredible section

64

3K

12K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Why do you think Britain is a nation of drivers?

Rishi Sunak

@RishiSunak

1 year

We are a nation of drivers. Most of us use a car every day and, for many, life would be difficult without their car. But too often, drivers feel under attack. That changes today with a long-term plan to improve drivers' experience on the road. Here’s how 👇🧵

9K

748

6K

147

2K

11K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

This is amazing. You can buy a tunnel boring machine for the price of a BMW on Ali Express. Free shipping too H/t @ScootFoundation

235

460

11K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 months

Iranian brick workers are superhuman Woof Shadow Building in Tehran by Tachra Design

34

826

10K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

Headquarters of a brick manufacturer, Tehran By Hooba Design

24

700

9K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Recent housing in Western Sydney, where summer temps get close to 50C. Tarmac. Black roofs. Hardly a tree in sight. An urban heat disaster waiting to happen.

548

1K

9K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

Last year, if I had to guess what would be the batshit conspiracy theory of 2023, I would have NEVER guessed it would be ‘town planning where you can walk to the shops’

166

1K

9K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

14 days

Such an incredible timber roof over an ice rink in Hazelton, BC, Canada I’m loving the contrast of the warm timber and white ice By Hemsworth Architecture

68

375

9K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

7 months

Beautiful tile work on new Iranian apartments By Sahar Kamaleddin Architect and Nima Safdari Architect

22

701

8K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

More Iranian apartments with wonderful material craft and use of ceramics This one by architect Kourosh Abdi

36

775

8K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

7 months

Latest construction photos of the Line / Neom Those are going to need to be some hefty foundations if this ends up being 500m tall!!!

492

623

7K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

“Normal people hate this stuff”

James Clark 📈📉¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@mr_james_c

5 months

IMO the biggest thing holding back mass building and development in the UK is that the last time the UK went on an enormous surge of building, they built stuff like this. Architects like this stuff, normal people hate it:

170

92

1K

86

333

7K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

Striking African brutalist architecture El Ikhwa Building, in Khartoum. Designed by Moneim Mustafa

56

1K

7K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

Anywhere else in the world, this site would have an apartment tower with a long corridor. Not in Japan. This is by Hiroyuki Ito Architects

20

521

7K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

These are solar panels disguised as terracotta tiles for use in Pompeii and the Portuguese city of Evora

83

1K

7K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 years

What does it take to move a thousand people?

76

1K

6K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

This is like the final boss of brustalism Casa De Napoli - Aldo Loris Rossi

133

605

6K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

Social housing in Barcelona That’s right. Social housing!!! By Peris + Toral Arquitectes

35

614

6K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

I’m going to keep posting Iranian mid-rise housing until we build like this everywhere In Tehran, by Solmaz Tatari and Ehsan Tosali

97

461

5K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Remarkable A ticket allowing you to use every bus, subway and tram in Germany will now cost €49 a month. That means you can use ALL public transit across Germany (except inter city trains) for €588 a year!!!

Germany Sets the New Standard for Cheap, National Mass Transit

Germany will start one of the most affordable public transit offers anywhere in the world on Monday, setting a new benchmark to encourage consumers to ditch their cars and putting pressure on Berlin...

www.bloomberg.com

131

1K

5K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

The quality of public architecture in Barcelona is exceptional This is a clinic (a clinic!!!) by BAAS Architecture with CASA SOLO Architects

22

425

5K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Incredible 90m span for a timber roof at the Saint Denis Aquatic Centre, for the Paris 2024 Olympics

33

363

5K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

If you’re going to do external fire escapes, do them like this? Le Brasilia, by Fernand Boukobza (1967). Marseille, France.

52

417

5K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

If you want an idea of how much glazing buildings *should have*, look back to before air-conditioning Wainwright Building, St Louis, Adler & Sullivan, 1891

40

281

5K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

Look at the absolute state of timber framing in the roof space of a new home in Dallas From the amazing reels by ‘Systematic Home Inspections’

277

324

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

More remarkable mid-rise brick housing in Iran Roshan Residential Building 3, by Hussein Yazdi and Massoud Abedi

29

387

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

The best apartments in the world are being built in France This by Parages Architectes has cross ventilation to all living spaces and straw insulation

64

317

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

14 days

In France a law states that 50% of the materials in public buildings need to be timber or natural materials And this is the kind of libraries you get as a result By Atelier Woa in Paris

46

491

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

The kind of housing we should absolutely be using to infill low density neighbourhoods Apartments by Taller Hector Barroso, Mexico

45

412

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

The original building provided 6 apartments. It was replace by 3 townhouses I don’t call halving the number of homes ‘healing’

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

1 year

London is healing.

2K

10K

217K

110

213

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

This is literally under construction

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

1 year

Will humanity ever produce something like this again?

9K

25K

323K

47

155

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 months

I think you can tell a lot about the values of a society by their public toilets Rammed earth and timber public toilets in Miyoshi, Japan. By Tono Mirai Architects

66

437

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

More evidence that Iran is the centre of brick innovation in architecture - this is by Davood Bahund and Mehdi Qaimi Would be a great apartment for a rock climber?

84

291

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

11 months

Social housing in Mallorca. Incredible that the design and build quality is better than most ‘private’ housing anywhere in the world By Alventosa Morell Arquitectes and Joan J Fortuny. Arq

27

509

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

What you see there is Canary Wharf, which has created - 400,000 jobs - 200 cultural events a year - homes for 18,000 people Sorry it ‘spoils’ the view

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

2 years

The transformation of London.

1K

6K

91K

116

179

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

This is beautiful manipulation of light, material and shade The Roof Garden Commission by Héctor Zamora at the Met. Video from Alberi Interior Design

19

336

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

Housing under construction in Tehran By Farshad Mehdizadeh Architects

14

290

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

7 months

And this is why, famously, no one wants to live in the brutalist Barbican estate…

Jaco Major 🍗

@JacoMajor

7 months

I'll wager a million dollars 95 out of 100 random people on the street would prefer the most generic possible contemporary apartment tower (left) to whatever brutalist nonsense architecture nerds idolize (right).

78

34

1K

54

157

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

Unique use of brick and tiles in this residential building in Dazful, Iran. By bio-design architects

11

325

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

16 days

Social housing in Paris Beautifully crafted stone exteriors, light and airy interiors Raphael Gabrion Architect + Mecobat

40

462

4K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

11 months

Spain looks to ban domestic flights when there is a train that can make the journey in under 2.5 hours

El pacto incluye eliminar vuelos si hay alternativa en tren de 2,5 horas

El minuto a minuto de este 24 de octubre de 2023

www.eldiario.es

109

408

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

I dunno… could be worse…

⚡☀️sLOVEnia 🇸🇮☀️⚡

@occultni

1 year

20,000 people live in this building in China. It has supermarkets, shops, hairdressers, pharmacies the 15mn gulag in a single building

108

377

829

74

194

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Ah yes. The Barbican. Famous for being "inhuman", "dirty", "car based" and "threatening"...

theoldbuilding

@theoldbuilding

1 year

Accidentally saw the modernist shrine of the Barbican today. Mentally ticked off the key modernist commandments. 1. Nothing at street level ✅ 2. Dirty ✅ 3. Inhuman size ✅ . 4 Car based ✅ 5. Threatening and totalitarianism ✅ 6. Windy ✅ 7. Doesn’t fit with surroundings ✅

92

39

450

58

232

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

When Goldfinger designed the Balfron Tower, he included rooms for table tennis and billiards, a “jazz/pop room” and a hobby room for older residents. When the 130 flats went on sale privately, 1,200 people registered an interest to buy them.

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

2 years

Architecture changes how we behave. Beautiful places instil pride in the community; ugly places breed contempt for the system which built them.

215

669

5K

42

229

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

We’re doomed aren’t we? Desert Shores, Nevada. 3,300 homes across 276 hectares (that’s a density of 12 units per hectare)

172

251

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

47 social housing units, in a nearly net zero energy building, Barcelona Dataae, Narch, Maira Arquitectes

42

347

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 months

Farmers plough the land between abandoned mansions, in Shenyang, China

37

369

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

Hooba Design in Iran are doing some of the best urban infill architecture I know of - a thread🧵 Architecture that celebrates shade, materials and craft This is Sharif Office Building in Tehran

18

394

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

Staircase light at Le Corbusier’s La Tourette, 1955

18

286

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 years

Glasgow flats originally built in 1969 refurbished to reduce energy use by 80%. One resident said “I haven’t switched on my heating for two years as there is just no need” #RetroFirst

41

711

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

20 days

Such quality, vibrancy and craft 108 social housing apartments - that’s right, this is social housing!!! By Monadnock Architects, Hilversum

31

329

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Another *stunning* example of mid-rise housing by Iranian architects Zendegi Building, Tehran. By Faraman Design and Construction

25

214

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 years

What a porch! Type C House, Sussex. Lubetkin & Tecton, 1935. via RIBA pix

38

276

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

8 months

Hotel and apartments by VTaller, Mexico

15

339

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 months

Sports Centre by Jean Peccoux, Paris, 1970 📸 Romain Laprade

10

307

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

Nordic schools are something else High school in Norway by CF Moller Architects

33

259

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 months

I understand the criticisms. That it’s tokenistic. That such a move uses more materials. But I very much like it I’m afraid

47

230

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

The New Library, Utrecht Adaptive reuse of the 1924 Utrecht Post Office including this fabulous main hall. Zecc Architecten + Rijnboutt

23

319

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

The anti 15 minute city UK’s largest development since Milton Keynes (1,200 homes) still does not have a single shop, café or GP surgery - 6 years after being built

196

442

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Japan’s tallest mass timber building, 11-storeys tall

33

257

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 months

Fragment in Oslo have designed a building kit for demountable timber apartments. Designs can be adapted for different communities and built in different locations

20

298

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

Brutalism / high-tech cross over Villa Bianca, Tokyo, 1964 (yup this is 60 years old). By Eiji Hotta Photo by run_run0365

21

336

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

5 months

Iranian bricklayers are something else!!! Khayyam project, by Esfandiar Abdshah

30

302

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

I am again highlighting some great terraces in Iranian mid-rise housing This is designed by ARSH4D

18

271

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

This is an amazing table of the cost overruns of mega projects Nuclear storage has a mean cost overrun of 238%, while with nuclear power its 120% Solar power has a mean cost overrun of 1%

135

1K

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

This is the one of the best adaptive reuses of an aging office building I know Good Cycle Building in Nagoya, by Nori Architects

14

274

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

1960s overcladding is removed from a 1920s office building in San Antonio (Source: )

62

220

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

22 apartments for social rent in Paris Charles‑Henri Tachon Architects

21

205

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

More stunning Spanish social housing 54 apartments in Barcelona by Peris+Toral, featured in @ArchRecord

18

337

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

I cannot get enough of modern Iranian brickwork Apartments by Ashari Architects

13

271

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

3 months

Beautiful staggered brick apartments in Tehran By Hussein Yazdi and Massoud Abedi

12

246

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

Right wing architecture is designed to raise the human spirit

55

117

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

Five apartments on a small site in Mashhad, Iran By Javad Khodaei, 2018

9

173

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

Rammed earth and sand spheres, by designers Karim + Elias

9

232

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 years

Oh Study finds if we have a mass global takeup of autonomous vehicles, the powerful onboard computers needed to run them could generate as many greenhouse gas emissions as *all the data centres in operation today*

MIT study finds huge carbon cost to self-driving cars

The adoption of self-driving cars will create a major bump in carbon emissions without changes to their design, a study from MIT has found.

www.dezeen.com

85

666

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

More social housing in Spain, this time by Harquitectes

12

278

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Worlds tallest timber tower, 30 storeys high, designed by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects

46

235

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

What do Iranian bricklayers have for breakfast… and where can I get some? Office building in Iran, by Omid Shafi’i (photo via best_of_architect)

18

261

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

6 months

You don't need a big site to build apartments Hiroyuki Ito Architects created commercial space and apartments on a site that is 60m2 in Tokyo

18

363

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

10 months

Time to end the 18th Century yards…

46

298

3K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

10 months

The original building provided 6 apartments. It was replace by 3 townhouses I don’t call halving the number of homes ‘healing’…

Culture Critic

@Culture_Crit

10 months

London is healing. This depressing postwar block in Kensington was torn down and replaced with a neo-Georgian terrace - similar to what stood there before it fell victim to an aerial bombing. The postwar brutalism was once designated a Grade II listed building in 2007, on the

771

3K

40K

76

97

2K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

1 year

Love this yellow bathroom by Studio Sabine Marcelis Looks like it’s made out of soap!

42

182

2K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

11 months

Some more beautiful brick mid-rise from Iran. This designed by Saeed Galstani

13

267

2K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

2 months

Quite, quite lovely Waiting room at the Trons Kapell in Stockholm Designed by Erik Gunnar Asplund

18

229

2K

Philip Oldfield

@SustainableTall

4 months

France doing amazing things in both housing and adaptive reuse Transformation of an 1830 warehouse on the Canal Saint-Martin into 74 social housing apartments FBAA architects