Lang Rabbie
@langrabbie
Not an architect but prone to concrete fetishism Palimpsestian Scot with a Nottinghamshire childhood now residing in London SW2's debatable lands C19th Liberalism tempered by teenage Marxism Today habit
There are also two similarly splendid examples outside Hackney Town Hall that I suspect also started life as the much more modest centrepieces of summer municipal bedding displays.
I was about to say how pleased I was that the old Scottish fitba stereotype of supporting "anyone but England" in international contests after Scotland are no longer contenders was no longer a thing, but then you get shite like this! #VikingHelmetsDidNotHaveHorns
Gally Knight later tried to sell all five panels at auction, but only found a buyer for the Adoration of the Magi, which is now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He presented the other four panels to Southwell Minster.
This attempt to make a geographically accurate map of the London neighbourhoods in each fare zone was produced by the geographer Alasdair Rae (formerly @undertheraedar on Twitter, but I think he now only posts on LinkedIn?)
The challenge of trying to convince sceptical Streatham Hill neighbours that good contemporary architecture (on a difficult infill site) is a better solution than pastiche Victoriana really is not made easier when the architect writes prose as bad as this.
Does anyone know what the planting plans are for all these weird recesses with poles in the facade of the Heatherwick-BIG Google abomination slowly taking shape at King's Cross? Looks as though they will keep quite a few gardeners in employment trying to maintain foliage in such cramped planters!
Henry Moore's 'King and Queen' in happier times sitting in the Glenkiln landscape.
Perhaps not, this photo from a Grimsby Telegraph story suggests it is held upright with an above ground frame. www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/news/grimsby...
Damnable heresy, I know, but the consensus after Burns Supper of haggis and neeps washed down with Primitivo and (rather too much) pudding with custard was to retire to toast the Auld Alliance with a measure of French Brandy rather than opening one of the bottles of single malt on a "school night".
"Hunt's Matchless Blacking" shoe polish was one of Henry Hunt Sr.'s London business ventures between his release from gaol (after conviction on trumped-up charge of "seditious insurrection" at Peterloo) and his election as an MP in 1830.
Welcome to Artisan Mannerism in England! (Chequers Court has the additional complicaton of the Ministry of Works trying to cram an extra floor of accommodation for PM's security team into the roofspace, hence all that flat leadwork visble in aerial views)
"Senior and junior first aid teams Easton Colliery Bathgate 1973 we had just won NCB national final and juniors runners up. Mitchell Hedges trophy in centre to big to fill held 11 gallons" www.facebook.com/groups/41152...
The developers gutting City Hall are "giving away" DSDHA's Potters Field Park Pavilion. dsdha.co.uk/projects/pot... I would look this gift horse very closely in the mouth before accepting. I suspect costs of taking apart and reassembling the 2008 structure are likely to be scarily high. @se1.news
The latest iteration in Telegraph's "woke museum curators ate my hamster" culture war is such a shameless bit of clickbait for online folk who want to throw trans people off church towers that I did wonder if it had actually appeared in the dead tree version? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12...
Stunning evening of music at Barbican Hall this evening with Sir James MacMillan conducting combined forces of BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus in his astonishing Christmas Oratorio (2019). Great solo performances from an ethereal Rhian Lois and the ever reliable Roderick Williams.
This is the 1960s Rathaus of Flensburg. I am assuming you must mean some other building? (Wikipedia in Deutsch tells me the old town hall was demolished to build the Hertie department store.)
Friedrich Georg Arnold seems to have been the Deutsche Reichsbshn architect for Flensburg and a fair number of contemporary rebuildings of stations in Schleswig and Nordfriesen. www.ihrsan.de/fileadmin/Co...
No doubt some misguided person will be along shortly to argue for saving *only* the mediocre sculptures of Edinburgh's threatened Argyle House.
The scenery of the Dalmatian Riviera is proving to be a bit of a distraction from The Work of hunting out surviving concrete space domes of the FR Yugoslavia era.
RIP Sir Terry Farrell Here is his 'Manifesto for London' originally published in the Architectural Review Sadly too many of his achievable ideas like opening up Park Square and Park Circus as a pedestrian route were defeated by vested interests of Crown Estate. share.google/CUG51Og2ewX1...
Somewhat distracted from tonight's excellent performance of 'Elijah' wondering about the logistics of how Crystal Palace Company (and railway operators of Upper and Lower CP Stations) got the audience and massed choirs at "monster" concerts home without a crowd disaster? @victorianlondon.bsky.social
Not sure why Guardian have so many gaps in their data for PDCA? I found Lord Wallace's PQ answer giving 2011-12 and 2012-13 figures in two minutes! www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20... More than £8m of public money spent on subsidies for former PMs www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Rather unfortunate that @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social choice of cropped picture excludes the female players who were such an important part of Music Antiqua Köln ensemble.
The remaining bridge abutment is now a peace museum. www.bruecke-remagen.de/index.php/mu...
Has anyone actually been into any of these Princes Street emporia of tourist tat to see whether the Gladstone Memorial Library of the former Liberal Club remains intact? Photos by @heathertweed.bsky.social tweedieclan.blogspot.com/2015/?m=1
More on Harrods Egyptian Hall Was William Mitchell responsible for throwing this shade on his client? Can it really be case that no one ever tipped off Al Fayed about the actual meaning of Ozymandias? @barnabascalder.bsky.social @c20society.bsky.social thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/mar...
Reports in papers obscure the fact that Harrods new owners want to completely rip out Egyptian Hall and not just the sixteen(!) pharoah-sphinxes with disgraced Mohammed Fayed's face. Lovers of William Mitchell sculpture should surely be fighting to save it, not going "I prefer his earlier work".