hughpearman's profile picture. Same handle on BSky. Writer and editor on architecture.  Book "About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings" pub. Yale. Chair of @C20Society

Hugh Pearman

@hughpearman

Same handle on BSky. Writer and editor on architecture. Book "About Architecture: An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings" pub. Yale. Chair of @C20Society

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Any followers wanting to find me elsewhere, I have the same handle in the blue place. Happy to welcome you there.


Please @BBCRadio3 don't persist with this slowed-down music thing on the breakfast show. It's excruciating.


Hugh Pearman reposted

🔵 @Everton's new home by @bdp_com & @MEISarchitects is a worthy addition to a historic dockside ow.ly/PviM50W6nKv 💪 'It is on a scale & with a tough, industrial quality entirely suited to its site. Walk towards it, it hoves most satisfyingly into view,' says @hughpearman

RIBAJ's tweet image. 🔵 @Everton's new home by @bdp_com & @MEISarchitects is a worthy addition to a historic dockside ow.ly/PviM50W6nKv

💪 'It is on a scale & with a tough, industrial quality entirely suited to its site. Walk towards it, it hoves most satisfyingly into view,' says @hughpearman

Hugh Pearman reposted

NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following an appeal by C20 Society, we're delighted to announce that the Future Systems classroom pod (2004) in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the @KaplickyCentre. It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický…

C20Society's tweet image. NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following an appeal by C20 Society, we're delighted to announce that the Future Systems classroom pod (2004) in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the @KaplickyCentre.
It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický…
C20Society's tweet image. NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following an appeal by C20 Society, we're delighted to announce that the Future Systems classroom pod (2004) in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the @KaplickyCentre.
It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický…
C20Society's tweet image. NEWS | It's Coming Home: Following an appeal by C20 Society, we're delighted to announce that the Future Systems classroom pod (2004) in Richmond has been saved from demolition by the @KaplickyCentre.
It is now set to be restored and become the first posthumous Jan Kaplický…

We had fun doing this

Eleven post-war buildings that people love.❤️ C20 Society Chair, @hughpearman, recently met up with Thomas Heatherwick at his King’s Cross studio, to discuss the attention-grabbing Humanise campaign with its criticism of ‘boring’ post-war buildings and ground rules on how to…

C20Society's tweet image. Eleven post-war buildings that people love.❤️

C20 Society Chair, @hughpearman, recently met up with Thomas Heatherwick at his King’s Cross studio, to discuss the attention-grabbing Humanise campaign with its criticism of ‘boring’ post-war buildings and ground rules on how to…
C20Society's tweet image. Eleven post-war buildings that people love.❤️

C20 Society Chair, @hughpearman, recently met up with Thomas Heatherwick at his King’s Cross studio, to discuss the attention-grabbing Humanise campaign with its criticism of ‘boring’ post-war buildings and ground rules on how to…
C20Society's tweet image. Eleven post-war buildings that people love.❤️

C20 Society Chair, @hughpearman, recently met up with Thomas Heatherwick at his King’s Cross studio, to discuss the attention-grabbing Humanise campaign with its criticism of ‘boring’ post-war buildings and ground rules on how to…


Hugh Pearman reposted

Once again @C20Society is keeping architecture in the news. No UK architecture charity does more to stimulate public debate about and raise the profile of contemporary and modern design. Please support our work if you can!

PhinHarper's tweet image. Once again @C20Society is keeping architecture in the news. No UK architecture charity does more to stimulate public debate about and raise the profile of contemporary and modern design. Please support our work if you can!

9 years ago we thought we'd launch a new kind of architecture award, a kind of antidote to all the flash stuff. Less aesthetics, more ethics. Thus the #MacEwenAward. 'Architecture for the Common Good' we called it. Every year it delivers!

Pentan Architects’ Severn View Park, winner of this year’s MacEwen Award, avoids an institutional feel, prioritising a sense of familiarity and self-determination ow.ly/8AJh50UNRPO

RIBAJ's tweet image. Pentan Architects’ Severn View Park, winner of this year’s MacEwen Award, avoids an institutional feel, prioritising a sense of familiarity and self-determination ow.ly/8AJh50UNRPO


And much too long

I know there are more important things going on but.........

EddyRhead's tweet image. I know there are more important things going on but.........


'Britain Remade'. Amazing how these organisations suddenly appear, with high production values, fully staffed by fresh-faced spads and thinktankers with interesting haircuts, claiming to be 'grassroots', rather vague as to who funds them: britainremade.co.uk/about


Londoners! Tonight, at the capital's best-connected lecture room in Farringdon, I'll be giving the @C20Society winter lecture 'Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham'. Basil Spence, George Pace, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Harris et al. Join me! secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…

hughpearman's tweet image. Londoners! Tonight, at the capital's best-connected lecture room in Farringdon, I'll be giving the @C20Society winter lecture 'Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham'. Basil Spence, George Pace, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Harris et al. Join me!
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…
hughpearman's tweet image. Londoners! Tonight, at the capital's best-connected lecture room in Farringdon, I'll be giving the @C20Society winter lecture 'Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham'. Basil Spence, George Pace, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Harris et al. Join me!
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…
hughpearman's tweet image. Londoners! Tonight, at the capital's best-connected lecture room in Farringdon, I'll be giving the @C20Society winter lecture 'Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham'. Basil Spence, George Pace, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Harris et al. Join me!
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…
hughpearman's tweet image. Londoners! Tonight, at the capital's best-connected lecture room in Farringdon, I'll be giving the @C20Society winter lecture 'Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham'. Basil Spence, George Pace, Daniel Libeskind, Vincent Harris et al. Join me!
secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx?t…

Hugh Pearman reposted

EVENT // Join C20 Chair @hughpearman for our 3rd annual Christmas lecture, on Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham A festive romp through Mod and Trad postwar Durham University buildings by everyone from Ove Arup, Basil Spence and Architects’ Co-Partnership, to…

C20Society's tweet image. EVENT // Join C20 Chair @hughpearman for our 3rd annual Christmas lecture, on Battle of the Big Beasts: Postwar University Durham

A festive romp through Mod and Trad postwar Durham University buildings by everyone from Ove Arup, Basil Spence and Architects’ Co-Partnership, to…

Hugh Pearman reposted

The #bells of #NotreDame have just been ringing for the first time since the fire! (Via ⁦@afpfr⁩)


Hugh Pearman reposted

NEWS // C20 is supporting plans by @Arup to conserve and restore the deteriorating faience facade of the Grade II* listed @O2AcademyBrix. Beginning life as the Art Deco and Italian Renaissance-style Astoria Variety Cinema in 1929, before becoming a discotheque in 1972 and…

C20Society's tweet image. NEWS // C20 is supporting plans by @Arup to conserve and restore the deteriorating faience facade of the Grade II* listed @O2AcademyBrix.

Beginning life as the Art Deco and Italian Renaissance-style Astoria Variety Cinema in 1929, before becoming a discotheque in 1972 and…
C20Society's tweet image. NEWS // C20 is supporting plans by @Arup to conserve and restore the deteriorating faience facade of the Grade II* listed @O2AcademyBrix.

Beginning life as the Art Deco and Italian Renaissance-style Astoria Variety Cinema in 1929, before becoming a discotheque in 1972 and…

Hugh Pearman reposted

I know there are bigger worries today, but to do something small and good, please sign this petition to save two excellent #Brutalist towers in #Loughborough. (Great photo by @new_brutalism) change.org/p/save-towers-…

BarnabasCalder's tweet image. I know there are bigger worries today, but to do something small and good, please sign this petition to save two excellent #Brutalist towers in #Loughborough. (Great photo by @new_brutalism)
change.org/p/save-towers-…

Piano's Paddington Cube. It had a controversial gestation, but now there it is and here's my take on it in the @RIBAJ for those with the key. ribaj.com/buildings/renz…


A mere 10 floors. So well modelled and proportioned.

This was the first residential tower block to be built in Britain. 🏢 Situated in Harlow, Essex, 'The Lawn' was part of master planner Frederick Gibberd’s scheme to house 60,000 people in the New Town. The block even received a Ministry of Health Housing medal in 1952.

HistoricEngland's tweet image. This was the first residential tower block to be built in Britain. 🏢

Situated in Harlow, Essex, 'The Lawn' was part of master planner Frederick Gibberd’s scheme to house 60,000 people in the New Town.

The block even received a Ministry of Health Housing medal in 1952.


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