Charity supporting urban design research, neighbourhood planning and community-led design across the UK.
London, England
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Come & Dare To Draw with the marvellous @shepherdmg on the next & much-loved @CreateStreetsFN one day drawing course …
A newly finished piece, a house in Gualta, Spain, drawn with ink, watercolour and coffee.
If you're interested in learning to draw buildings, streets and places, the next @CreateStreetsFN Dare to Draw course in scheduled for 30th Jan 2027 .
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Is the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, in Paris (1913) one of the world’s most enjoyable Art-Deco buildings? Yes argues @boys_nicholas in @Telegraph
“As Classical as it is proto-art deco. The architect, Auguste Perret, pioneered concrete architecture, perhaps unsurprisingly as his family firm specialised in reinforced concrete construction. A concrete building in central Paris may sound heretical, but do not be deterred. It is an elegant building with deeply recessed windows, coffered pilasters, a sinuous bay window, an overhanging cornice and bas-reliefs of Apollo.” You can …
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Thank God the Victorians created our railway stations and hurrah for the seamless experience of arriving back in Britain by train.
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What should Limoges do with their town hall?
1 Rebuild it as was?
2 Rebuild as an 'honest' modernist building?
3 Leave it as an 'honest' ruin (the National Trust approach)
4 Rebuild it even bigger & better & more beautiful?
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Why is the Chrysler Building so great I ask for @Telegraph?
The Platonic ideal of an art deco skyscraper & a temple to the motor car. Stylised hubcaps, fenders and hoods encrust the façade. American eagles, new-world gargoyles, glare out protectively at the 61st floor. Above …
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The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II is the world’s greatest shopping arcade. It gets everything right: location, innovation & beautification. Linking Milan’s Duomo with her opera house, La Scala, it brilliantly deploys Victorian glass & iron know-how to span soaring distances…
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Come and draw with us ... The @CreateStreetsFN much loved "Dare To Draw" course with @shepherdmg returns in the new year and we also launch our first Classical By Design two day course into drawing the orders. Still a few places left
'Dare to Draw' is back in the new year along with our new 'Classical by Design' masterclass ✏️ Learn more and reserve your place here ⬇️
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In case you missed it, SOME GOOD NEWS !!!
Approved!
The Mayor of London has greenlit Shoreditch Works, delivering an important symbolic win for urban regeneration, jobs, beauty and new homes.
Huge credit to Linea Properties Ltd for pushing this forward and we dare to hope that we at Create Streets helped with our groundbreaking Visual Preference Survey. This proved that the public overwhelmingly backs beautiful, dense design. Our research with @DeltapollUK showed an undeniable 76% to 78% public approval rating—demonstrating that the public support architecture that is public-friendly.
From features in City A.M. to deep-dives in the Wall Street Journal, the press has highlighted this scheme as the blueprint for how British capital can grow while keeping the public firmly on its side. This is how we build a better London! 🚀🏙️
You can …
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... or so I argue in @unherd today after yesterday's shocking and upsetting events. Please do read and share ! unherd.com/newsroom/destruct…
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Urban Designer / Street Designer wanted: help build places people will love for generations.
You’ll shape real streets and new neighbourhoods, and help change how Britain builds. Find out more and apply: createstreets.com/jobs/
#GentleDensity #Beauty
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‘Good things,’ wrote Roger Scruton ‘are easily destroyed, but not easily created.’ He had in mind the ‘collective assets’ of ‘peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit and the security of property’ but he might equally have been writing about architecture.
Yesterday...
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It’s so heartbreaking…
The sad west doorway of St Ignatius, Salford for #ADoorableThursday. By Darbyshire & Smith, 1900, closed and deconsecrated by the Diocese of Manchester at the start of this century. Conversion into a community resource was begun, but the building is now boarded up and decaying.
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This. And Ely. It's breath-snatching. This is what I wrote about it for @Telegraph recently in my list of world's greatest buildings: telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti…
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Make it bigger, better and more beautiful with more bedrooms. (This type of beautiful and popular intensification should be pre-approved by right by councils for millions of new streets). The good news is that THIS IS ALREADY LEGAL. Here is...
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I've been through Paddington station a lot recently. The renovation is lovely (left) - though it is ruined by the building opposite as you exit (right). It's the opposite of the Lee Kuan Yew doctrine.
If we could demolish, rebuild, and make beautiful *one* building in London I would make it this one.
Think about all the tourists or business travellers from Heathrow step out at Paddington to see London for the first time. This is what they're greeted with.
The irony is this land is obviously really valuable and there's no way it wouldn't have been redeveloped by its owners without the Town and Country Planning Act. A market in land use would have fixed this problem.
But however it's done. Knock down this building and replace it with something impressive.
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Good can be very, very simple. A wall with three holes. The deep window & door reveals, the load-bearing brick walls, the generous & large windows, the sash windows, all elevate the simple into the delightful. Needless to say recent malign changes in British building regulations would make this much harder to build today. You can ….
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Wide roads & faceless towers. How to diminish place-appeal in one image.
Here's a real welcome to @Bristol. I suppose the planners will be backing this Soviet-era monstrosity. Anyone who sees this will no doubt do the full St James Barton roundabout and head out again.
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