How can we specify timber more sustainably? Is local necessarily best? Hattie Hartman and I speak to Scott Francisco from Cities4Forests about how to source timber for regenerative construction open.spotify.com/episode/42tshB…

The beheading babies thing might have been fake, but the Israeli destruction of Gaza is all too real.

Free Palestine

🇵🇸 End the violence. End apartheid. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸 Do everything you can to join this march today.

Yeah but they never thought of just drawing on the floor did they

This is ok but misses the main reason why new homes are so bad: the planning system creates an artificial shortage of homes, so housebuilders don't need to compete on quality, because people are forced to buy any old crap theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

An art critic wrote a fairly positive review of a show from the artist who paints people in the subway on TikTok. The artist who paints people on the subway on TikTok absolutely did not like it. news.artnet.com/opinion/devon-…

I've pretty much had my fill of this website now, but I've got some codes for bluesky if anyone would like one

Air-to-water heat pump: £5k Air-to-air heat pump: £2k 'Fabric First' energy saving deep retrofit: £100k We need to decarbonise ASAP and the fantasy of widespread deep #retrofit is a distracting us from where our efforts need to go

How long did your second covid bout take? I was off for 10 days and two weeks later I'm still not 100% Is this standard?

I feel like this explains the billion greenwash architecture projects everywhere. An astroturf ski slope on a plastic incineration plant isn't 'for' actually being sustainable. It's just 'for' being a snazzy concept.

Does anyone have an opinion on Affinity Publisher as an InDesign alternative? Trying to get out from the Adobe yoke

Really proud that two of the housing schemes I was project architect on at my last practice are up for RIBA London Awards! architectsjournal.co.uk/news/riba-lond…