#Groundbreaking | Donald Liao dies, leaving behind public housing success stories | Chris Yeung | At Large

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The story of Donald Liao, an architect-turned-top official, began when he joined the government in 1960 after he graduated from the University of Hong Kong’s architecture department. He became the city’s fir...
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The Second- Farmstay | CTA | Creative Architects

The homeowner is a "new generation" farmer who applies extensive scientific and technical research to agricultural production, differing greatly from...

Archilovers

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Knight-LondonVolII/pages/001-sir-christopher-wren/

If you ask someone from the UK for the name of an architect there’s a good chance they’ll say Christopher Wren. Best known for St. Paul’s Cathedral, and rebuilding after the 1666 Fire of London, designing over 50 churches.

Taken from London, ed. Charles Knight; Tufts has it in TEI XML but no download link i could find. Hah! I have the physical book to scan!

#vintageEngraving #portrait #SirChristopherWren #ChristopherWren #architect #wig #fobo #GIMP #Gimp_3 #xsane

Earlier this week I read a column by a #Dutch #architect who compares leaving his lawn chair in the street and what we would think of that. Yet car parking... I am publishing his column "Parking is not a birth right" in English today with his permission. #Ottcity #Ottawa

http://hansonthebike.com/2026/03/01/parking-is-not-a-birth-right/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

"Parking is not a birth right" - Hans on the Bike - Cycling in Ottawa and beyond

Dutch architect Harvey Otten argues that free parking in the street is not a birth right and the cost should not be subsidised by others

Hans on the Bike - Cycling in Ottawa and beyond
I like all of it. I'm a #system #solution #architect so I'm built for problems like this. Those are great ideas except they don't work. The way to win is to give not take. E.g. #Sovereign #housing #endowment. Blue Chip #investment opportunity. Government #solvency. Societal #stability. Win-Win-Win.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3oxkyuev3ng4mcwlsxe2pik6/post/3mfxc5lleas2u