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crossstarchitects.bsky.social
Creative upstarts based in the UK Northwest. Architecture/Interiors/Planning./ARB / RIBA / Part-time tutor @LivUniArch
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Make it so…

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Still cold.

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Lithograph on paper by Peter Brook ‘January Pennine Valley’ 1976-77. From Twelve Months of the Year series. Size 51 x 72 cm.

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I’d like to report a murder.

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You’d think we’d never fed these two.

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This lad thinks he’s human.

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Think Hugo and Rey had enough of the Xmas period.

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Lights and fog

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My very own Jen Orpin painting illuminated by an EBay purchased light.

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Night and early morning walk

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City centre wonderings

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The Great Lakes of Sale.

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"It seems very harsh to send her back." Matt Frei speaks to Mike Campbell, a family friend of Gaie Delap, the 77-year-old climate activist returned to jail after her electronic tag didn't fit. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/just-st...

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Truth... 😎

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Morning all Photograph by Paul Himmel. Falling Snow - Boy in the Window, New York 1952.

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I’ve been posting examples of great social housing in Spain for a while now, so Dwell asked me to write about what makes it so good www.dwell.com/article/why-...

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Post-war council housing in #Wigan - slum clearance, new estates and high-rise. My new post examines the changing form and fortunes of the Lancashire town made famous by George Orwell. municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2024/12/17/c...

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irony found dead in the gutter

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Office did close yesterday, but as always there’s always something else to do! Finally closed down the computer! 🎄

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Christmas Guinness! 🎄

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pin.it/goZzXEd8X Look at this... 👀

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Day 15 of #ArtAdventCalendar - happy third advent with this abstract piece of interlocking squares #PencilDrawing polychromos on white paper, 12x8cm

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I love this map of places where sycamore gap tree saplings will be planted. They include the Rob Burrow Centre for MND and a plot in memory of a 15 year old girl killed by her ex-boyfriend. They stretch from the Orkneys to Cornwall. By @nationaltrust.bsky.social

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Some pics of the Millennium Falcon being build in Pembroke Dock, Wales in 1979 for ‘The Empire Strikes Back’. www.atlasobscura.com/places/pembr... #WalesInTheMovies #maythe4thbewithyou #StarWarsWales

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Good Day! Primrose Hill by David Gentleman 2009 Watercolour

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Fans Supporting Foodbanks are now on here so give them a follow 💙 @sfoodbanks.bsky.social

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Explain this, humankind

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Every Thatcher style privatisation has been an abject failure. Rail, water, steel etc. Prove me wrong.

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🎄Still looking for a quirky Christmas stocking filler? C20 has you covered. 🧼 As part of our Miners’ Modernism project, we’ve managed to source some rare original Pithead Bath soap tablets, supplied in collectable gift packaging as a numbered edition of 70. 🛒 shop.c20society.org.uk/products/archi…

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Quatro - New Romantic-themed proto-cyberpunk early eighties soft drink of the future which is also now with never-determinable 'mixed fruits' flavour, promoted with ad in which stray member of Kajagoogoo gets can from vending machine with a special card.

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[spoiler] The final moments of Succession. The script and direction are so beautifully written.

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Xmas Guinness!

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4️⃣0️⃣ 🎂🔵⚪️ #UHTPodcast #EFC #COYB #Everton

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The Best Of Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 26,1950

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Twilight by Evgeny Lushpin 2000 Oil on Canvas

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This is Juniper and Archer. They bought two tickets to the scritches train, but there's always room for a caboose. 13/10 for both

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When teachers, NHS & rail workers were on strike, The Sun called them 'greedy extremists'. The Govt 'farm support budget' = £2.4bn a year. Subsidies account for around 40% of all English farming's income (64% in 2020!). These tractor wankers clearly aren't busy enough. All they're farming is cash.

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Winter at Flatford by Sir Alfred J Munnings (1878-1959) Oil on Canvas (Private Collection)

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'Snow in Islington' (2018) by Melissa Scott-Miller scottmillerart.com

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The Entrance Screen and Spire at Amble East Cemetery, built in 1878 by E & D Spence of Amble. Originally linked two mortuary Chapels which were demolished in 1971. Grade II listed since 1988. #Amble #EastCemetery #Spire #Northumberland #Photography

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