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A new town was built in the Netherlands and it’s not what you’d expect… A thread🧵
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King Charles built a completely new town and it’s MORE than just a normal town... A thread🧵
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Brussels. Let's build like this again
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What architects think where people want to live vs. where people actually want to live
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If you live in a city like this, chances are you won’t even need a car.
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What’s holding us back from building this?
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One of my favourite streets in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. This is what quality of life looks like
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Anyone looking for some Haussmann-styled design inspiration? You ask, Midjourney AI delivers. Bit wonky, but when adapted a bit, would make for some very popular apartments I'd guess.
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Another door in Paris
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When in doubt, use brick. London, England
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Parisian corners
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EMBRACE DETAILS & ORNAMENT
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King Charles created a new town, Poundbury, to prove there is another way of developing places. Instead of an ugly mono-functional dormitory town, this would be a beautiful, diverse, human-scaled, walkable community with plenty of employment. Learn all about it in our video:
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Arches ❤️
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Density in its most attractive form Paris
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Strasbourg
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What kind of evil or stupidity reigned in the 1960's... So much was lost
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And here's the before and after shot.
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We're still able to create attractive new urban places Bath, England
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Show me a better type of urban fabric for big cities than that of the 19th century, and I'll show you a unicorn. It's a recipe that hasn't met it's equal.
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I have a soft spot for hotel architecture. Why does every new hotel have to be a glass cube?
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How to properly carry a balcony. Stockholm, Sweden
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Poundbury, Dorset, England Many like to see it fail. Yet, it is a commercial success - the plan is nearly complete. The end result is not shocking, nor featured in any fancy magazines. And that's exactly what makes it shocking to modernists. Thread 🧵👇
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Interesting architecture in Mexico City. I love the copper roof, but there's a lot to like about this building.
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If we were to build a new Haussmann-styled city in the Netherlands, what could the architecture look like? I think this comes close:
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Utrecht, the Netherlands One of the finest cities to live in
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In my opinion, this is what gentle density looks like.
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A confident corner in Stockholm
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It's the details that matter Amsterdam
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Can we just appreciate the craftsmanship that has gone into these lamps for a moment? Palais Garnier, France
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Saw this beauty yesterday. All built with the finest Bath stone. Prior Park, Bath
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Canals and castles Ghent, Belgium
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Paris: high density urban fabric, but still attractive. No towers needed
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Parisian balconies. Never gets old
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What good urbanism looks like Le Champ de Mars, Paris
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"Midjourney, design me a pattern book."
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Stockholm - I can't get enough of these buildings
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Thinking of the Louvre again
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Corners in Paris. We love it, yet we don't build it anymore.
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I vouch for the revival of intricate architecture & aesthetics - especially building entries. Let's take inspiration from many times & styles again - like this Art Deco one! Unleashing Midjourney v 5.1 on this task gave some cool results, a 🧵:
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What a liveable, healthy and human scaled place looks like to me. Let's take design cues from these types of places. Buren, the Netherlands
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Beautiful corner. London, England.
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Embrace richly detailed shopfronts. They are still pretty when the shop disappears.
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Most of what you see in this picture was painstakingly rebuilt after 1990. We are still able to create beauty. Dresden, Germany
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Not really related to architecture, just insane levels of craftsmanship & beauty: The Abduction of Proserpina by Bernini
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Dresden. All rebuilt
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Siena, Italy. Ticks all the boxes: compact, beautiful, dense. Perhaps a bit too dense for current standards, but the millions of tourists, shop owners and residents don't seem to mind.
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We're not done yet with art nouveau
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What happened to the art of building crescents? Left: London, Right: Bath
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Poundbury, the urban development project near Dorchester initiated by king Charles III
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We organised a counter design proposal for the Heineken Hoek in Amsterdam. Although it's too late to change anything now, we hope to change the discussion about architecure in Amsterdam We got 32 submissions! In this 🧵 I will share all the submissions
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The beauty of Parisian balconies
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Letting OMA do urban design vs. letting Midjourney create an urban design. Prompt: Bird's eye view of a beautiful, human scaled city with beautiful ornate buildings, attractive squares, happy people - etc. Where would you rather live?
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Ornate facades, Brussels
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I love ornament. It does matter Paris, France
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A small cafe, some green, bikes & beautiful architecture. Some fine ingredients for a liveable city
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Feet. The perfect mode of transportation to get coffee with.
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The Tundra: The perfect vehicle to get a cappuccino with.
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Newly built in Berlin. Eisenzahn 1, by Treese Architekten Berlin What do you think?
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Let’s do this. For every 10 likes, I let ChatGPT make the building more beautiful
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Gründerzeit apartments meet Dutch architecture. Haussmann meets Hausa architecture. Who said traditional architecture just means 'copying the past'? How about artistic cross-pollination?
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Details Ghent, Belgium
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Astonishing architectural richness Ghent, Belgium
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It's Gothic Thursday, time to flush the timeline with Gothic architecture
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Gates in Stockholm
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There still is hope
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Beautiful architecture is making a comeback in Germany This is new
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Most people just want handsome façades with many well balanced & proportioned details. If you give it to them, your building might just last a bit longer - and add value to the entire street & community
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1/ Experiment that worked Poundbury was an experiment that many thought would fail. But, guess what? It became an enormous success.
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'Sir, we got a beautiful, historical train station. What should we do with it?' 'Cover it with glass. We'll end up in a fancy architecture magazine, I guarantee it!'
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Water, architectural splendour & autumn leaves Utrecht, the Netherlands
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When I imagine how we could build more dense, lively & attractive cities, I imagine it could look like this. Attractive 5 to 6 storey buildings, lots of detail, ground floor suitable for shops. Street trees, public transport, walking & cycling friendly infra - the whole package
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Two examples of Palladian windows in Rome. Once you recognise them, you see them everywhere.
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More Strasbourg
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Dall-e 3 reaches entire new levels of urban & architectural imagination
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3/ Two Principles The key to its success is simple - beauty and harmony. Every building, every street, every corner was designed with these two principles in mind.
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Embrace the Art Nouveau canopy. Simply unbeatable (not my own pictures this time)
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The redeveloped town Le Plessis Robinson, near Paris
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Your density vs. the density she told you not to worry about
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The power of brick on full display, London
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When I see Nils Freckeus designs a new building
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Now on X: my latest video, about a new city built in Guatemala: Cayalá. This is the way forward: friendly & beautiful places built for humans, not machines. @elonmusk take note! Masterplanned by @LeonKrier and designed by Estudio Urbano, Richard Economakis & Marc Landers
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One of my favourite urban aesthetics; half timbered houses and colorful, ornate stonework. The right building is the Historisches Kaufhaus (Merchant's Hall) from 1520. Freiburg, Germany
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6/ What’s so unique about it? The town is a stark contrast to the grimy, low-quality flats and stark housing estates that were becoming the norm. It's a testament to the fact that beauty and harmony can still exist in urban planning.
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Strasbourg at night
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I can't get over these Parisian doors
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2/ New or not? The town now houses around 4,100 inhabitants. And the best part? It looks so ‘normal’ and pleasant that you wouldn't even know it's new.
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Bath, where Medieval meets Classical
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1/ A New Vision for Urban Development Ever wondered what the future of urban planning looks like? Let me introduce you to the new Dutch town, Brandevoort. This small town proves we can still blend the charm of traditional Dutch towns with modern, sustainable living.
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What placemaking really looks like
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A couple hundred meters apart, same street, Dresden Is beauty subjective?
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Art Deco: the true & only futurism. Let’s build like this San Francisco, Shell building
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They perfected urban form in Paris. Change my mind
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Good architecture pleases the eyes, great architecture pleases the mind, exceptional architecture pleases both.
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The Louvre, Paris. Intense Parisian aesthetics coming up.
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Leiden, the Netherlands. One of the most liveable cities
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Brussels - a fantastic place to wander
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Brussels & Brusselisation in the same picture A strong unwillingness to recognise the historic urban fabric, no dialogue, only dominance. Ugliness growing like a tumor.
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Our summer school students start producing some truly beautiful designs! What do you think, is this what we want to see more of in our architecture education (& cities?)
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Caryatids in 19th century Amsterdam
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Having dinner at the canals of Utrecht. Obviously a very successful, loved, attractive place. The ‘werfkelders’, cellars with entries to the canal, were originally used as storage. They now function as restaurants, atelier or even airbnb’s. Something tells me these will be used…
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Billionaires used to build amenities for the public that were beautiful, useful and eternal. They are loved to this day, like Carnegie Hall. Now they just buy cringey yachts and build tacky McMansions. Be more Carnegie, less Zuck.
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🇺🇸ZUCKS NEW $300-MILLION YATCH Zuckerberg, a very vocal advocate for climate change action, has added a $300 million mega-yacht to his collection, which includes a Gulfstream G650 jet. Source: PTZtv (YouTube)
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Royal crescent, Bath, England Pinnacle of Georgian architecture
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