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Emigrating from Belfast to Los Angeles with a pit stop in Pittsburgh and San Francisco, creating the LA aqueduct, getting Mulholland Drive called after you, earning an honorary doctorate from Berkeley, and rejecting the idea of being LA mayor because you’d “rather give birth to a porcupine backwards”. What a guy!
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Great new podcast from one of the best
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Still on my quest for the “quintessentially Irish architectural aesthetic that delights” but in the meantime, I can’t stop loving these 18th century neo-classical gems
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Façades Confidential: Is Oriel Chambers the first curtain wall ever? (facadesconfidential.blogspot.com)Spoiler: probably not, but it’s a very beautiful building (that was very poorly received initially)
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Cautious sloptimism about the future of entertainment
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Creative comedic genius friend at it once again
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Biographical Anecdotes of Benjamin Lay by one of the Founding Fathers
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A reminder of the architectural historical beauty of Dublin.
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The Irish Independent originally reported concerns that the pedestrianisation of the area would attract “hippies, street performers and vagrants in the street.”