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Adrian Miles

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Architect | he/him | own thoughts | housing, mixed use, education | #SE23 #housingforall #urbangreening 🌱

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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Only a few tickets left for our upcoming talk on 27 August at the Isokon Gallery. Get yours before they sell out. Follow us on Eventbrite for updates when tickets for new talks go on sale. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chandigarh...
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Chandigarh 60+ years since Le Corbusier
The history of the development of the extraordinary Modernist experiment in Chandigarh in north east India and how it became a success story
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
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As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Another chance to see inside an Isokon flat today, Sunday 28 June, from 1100 to 1300. First come first served (there may be a wait). We ask for a £10 donation per visitor to the Gallery.
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Magnus Englund, Isokon Gallery director, with Anja Guttenberger of www.bauhausfaces.com at the Isokon archive. Anja will be giving a talk on Ise Gropius the wife of Walter Gropius, on 1 October at the Isokon Gallery. Watch out for our events and follow us on www.eventbrite.com/o/10598755560
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Would you like to visit an Isokon minimum flat? On Sunday 31 May, 11:00 to 13:00, one of our volunteers will be showing his beautifully furnished 25 sq metre apartment. First come, first served (there may be a wait). We ask for a donation of £10 per visitor.
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Another opportunity to visit an Isokon minimum flat tomorrow, Sunday 19 April, from 1100 to 1300. First come first served; we ask for a donation of £10 per visitor.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
7 hours of silence from the Prime Minister. The US is using UK bases. The President is openly talking about destroying a civilisation. And Downing Street says... nothing. If you won’t speak up now, when will you?
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Joe Giddings @joegiddings.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Achieving the UK’s net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the government’s climate advisers have forecast." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
Climate change committee finds move to renewable energy would also bring health, economic and security benefits
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
‘If a drug boasted such benefits [as the arts] governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, brings together numerous research projects confirming what we have always suspected - art is good for us. It helps us enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives. One study found that people who engaged regularly with the arts had a 31% lower risk of dying at any point during the follow-up period, even when confounding socioeconomic, demographic and health factors were taken into account.
Studies also show that visiting museums and attending live music events can make people physiologically younger, and a monthly cultural activity almost halves our chances of depression. As Fancourt argues, if a drug boasted such benefits governments would be pouring billions into it. Instead, funding has been slashed across the culture sector and arts education has been devalued and eroded in the UK.
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Justin @ediparolev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”
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Uruguay’s Renewable Charge: A Small Nation, A Big Lesson For The World
Uruguay built a power grid that runs 99% on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. Here’s how its bold energy overhaul became a global model.
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R.E.M. @remhq.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Happy Birthday Neil Young! @michaelstipe.bsky.social is among the 80 artists who have picked & submitted a favorite Neil Young song in Stereogum's tribute to Neil on his 80th birthday, today. Scroll through and read Michael’s pick and the story that accompanies it... stereogum.com/2476602/80-a...
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80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Neil Young Song
Happy 80th birthday, Neil Young!
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This country needs a new understanding of what rural development should be. Sustainable homes and amenities at the density of Italian hill towns 4 storeys minimum going down to terraced townhouse density on the perimeter not whatever car led nonsense this is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities
Thousands of properties going up without access to playgrounds, community infrastructure and even doctors
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Shocking to see something this misinformed from an mp. Creating unworkable and unhealthy communities is just building up worse problems for the future. Mental health, obesity problems etc.
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Actually being in touch with people and offering them things that responds to their needs. Might catch on.
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Amazing set from Neil Young at #Glastonbury looking forward to seeing him live at Hyde Park.
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Really need a whole city civic event like this in London!
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
So the Government is aiming for on average 300k housing completions per year but current housing *starts* are around the 115k mark. That means starts will have to increase to well over 400k per year or more to have a chance of catching up and delivering 1.5m in 5 years.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Stepping into a smooth quiet electric bus is a thing of wonder. All the hype around robotaxis etc and we already have something out of science fiction transforming central London that’s accessible and public!
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Couldn’t agree more. Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Treat social housing as critical infrastructure to unlock billions, says Peabody boss
Exclusive: Giving social housing same status as roads and energy would mean more investment in sector major providers say is at breaking point
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Would you live in a 25 sq m Isokon minimum flat? When one was exhibited at Dorland Hall in 1933, 12 flats were let before building work had begun! Visit a real one on Sunday May 25, 1100-1300. There may be a wait. A donation of £10 per visitor is appreciated. archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/features/jun...
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
3) Ultimately, migration shouldn’t be managed by the same government department as crime and domestic security. It should be its own department - with a focus on community cohesion, infrastructure, and the country’s real economic needs.
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Dreaming of an alternate reality where Starmer took the Spanish approach. Sitting on a booming economy & thriving social care system would have made Farage look very silly in 2029. I think that dream is now dead. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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How Spain’s radically different approach to migration helped its economy soar
As immigration has increased, GDP has surged and unemployment has fallen to lowest level since 2008
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Just four in 10 new homes in England currently come with solar power The body representing local authorities think it should be *all* of them It would benefit bill-payers & the climate, saving people £440 per year news.sky.com/story/end-th...
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End the 'absolute scandal' of new homes built without solar panels, government urged
Last year, Labour promised a "rooftop revolution" that would see millions more homes fitted with solar panels. But they have been accused of wavering over proposals to make it mandatory.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Great article - You help "left behind" areas by helping the nearest big city. Our problem is the relative economic weakness of our big cities outside London.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
NEW: Paris residents are voting in a referendum today on whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised & greened. "For the past 25 yrs we've gradually been reclaiming public space for pedestrians & gentle traffic, & with 'garden streets' to create lungs within neighbourhoods.”
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Paris residents to vote on making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This is not sustainable and Labour is not meeting the moment: All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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All UK families ‘to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns
Keir Starmer has been dealt a fresh blow to his living standards pledge in advance of the spring statement
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Avanti Architects @avantiarch.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Isokon Gallery is now open to visitors for 2025! If you missed the exhibition ‘Through a Bauhaus Lens: Edith Tudor-Hart and Isokon’ and exhibition of previously unseen 1933-34 photographs, there is still time. For more information, please visit the Isokon Gallery website: isokongallery.org
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Isokon Gallery
The Isokon Gallery is a permanent exhibition telling the remarkable story of the Isokon building, the pioneering modern apartment block opened in 1934 as an experiment in new ways of urban living.
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“The new society it imagined didn’t come into being – not for want of trying by the socialists, Stalinists and anarchists who lived in its microcosm here in the 1930s; but the building still stands as a statement of expanded possibility”
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The first comprehensive publication in English on Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, best known as the designer of the Frankfurt Kitchen. Now available at our Gallery, and online too Isokon gallery.org/products/margarete-schutte-lihotzky-architecture-politics-gender-new-perspectives-on-her-life-and-work
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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Architecture. Politics. Gender.New Perspectives on Her Life and Work
Paperback, 368 pages By Marcel Bois and Bernadette Reinhold Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897–2000) entered the modernist canon with her Frankfurt Kitchen. She is also considered a pioneer of social ar...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 11/03/2025
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
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Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening:

                First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament.  He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake.  He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow.

                The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention.  He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment.  While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so.  The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail.        

                Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you love #modernism, you’ll love being part of our team of volunteer gallery assistants. Recruiting now for the 2025 season.
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This Sunday, 2 March, from 1100-1300, you can visit one of the Isokon flats in exchange for a £10 donation to the gallery. There may be a wait. First come, first served.
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Tom Newby @tomnewby.co.uk · 23/02/2025
Designs like this are why embodied carbon really needs to be regulated. The overhang will cause a signficant increase in the volume of concrete and steel in the foundations.
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Howells’ top-heavy Manchester tower gets the OK
Howells’ proposal for an 18-storey office tower in Manchester’s Northern Quarter has been approved more than two years after plans were first unveiled
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Getting ready for the new season. The Isokon Gallery reopens on Saturday 1 March, 1100-1600 on Saturdays and Sundays, until the end of November.
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Anna Clarke @annaclarke.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
That's 31 blocks of flats - around 6,000 new homes, including social housing - empty because the government tried to outsource the new process of signing off on building safety. This failed, so they had to take it all back in house. - Meanwhile 100,000+ families stuck in temporary accommodation.
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Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Crosstown doughnuts, 115 Cannon Street, formerly the Mortimer Gall Electrical Centre, in Vitrolite and glass bricks, designed by Isokon resident Walter Gropius and Maxwell Fry, 1936. (Source of 1936 image: Historic England Archive cc47_02711) #craftbycrosstown #gropius
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
"The number of families made homeless last year outnumbered new social homes being built by more than seven to one" We need a massive council housebuilding programme Always worth reading Vicky Spratt on housing in @inews.co.uk inews.co.uk/opinion/inst...
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Instead of building new homes, we're spending millions on B&Bs
New figures provided exclusively to The i Paper reveal the number of families made homeless last year outnumbered new social homes being built by more than seven to one
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
NEW: How much wealth is too much?🤔 In partnership with @patrioticmillionaires.org we've published a new report exploring the case for an Extreme Wealth Line. We spoke to politicians, policy makers and millionaires to get their thoughts on the concept - here's some of what we found.
Text: Exploring an extreme wealth line, insights from political figures, policy experts and millionaires on a threshold for harmful wealth
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Sounds like a good idea
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
🚨🚨 Breaking: The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of #X, formerly Twitter, on January 20. 🧵 www.euronews.com/next/2025/01...
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French movement asks X users to leave platform on US inauguration day
The French Human Rights League (LDH) is asking the public to join them in a mass exodus of X, formerly Twitter, on January 20.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 17/01/2025
Musk peut-il perdre de l’influence si politiques, institutions et médias quittent X ? Oui, répond le mathématicien @chavalarias.bsky.social, qui encourage au départ : «C’est nous qui donnons son pouvoir à Elon Musk. On peut le lui retirer» Interview :
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David Chavalarias : «C’est nous qui donnons son pouvoir à Elon Musk. On peut le lui retirer»
Un collectif porté par le mathématicien David Chavalarias a mis au point «HelloQuitteX», une plateforme pour claquer collectivement la porte du réseau social X (ex-Twitter) le 20 janvier sans perdre s...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
According to sensible people the NHS and pensions are unsustainable. Meanwhile spending on both is lower than most other advanced economies. But there seems to be an unthinking consensus that things must inevitably get worse.
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Adrian Miles @adrianmilesarch.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Great to see architecture/built environment community more active here now! Let's see if anyone bites on this question: does Labour really believe that New Towns will have an impact on their housing targets within the next 4.5yrs given time to planning and typical build-out rates? If yes why?
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint site unearthed 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK's biggest ever dinosaur footprint trackways unearthed
About 200 footprints made by dinosaurs 166 million years ago have been unearthed in a quarry in Oxfordshire.
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
The Government should make building hundreds of thousands of council homes its defining purpose. No other policy, achievable within a Parliament, would bring greater social and economic benefits.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively youtu.be/nNcNuDKSKAc?... The government’s own accounts, just released, show that its total liabilities owing fell between 2022 and 2023 by £1.5 trillion. The claim that we’re burdened by debt is now nonsense. When will they admit it?
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The government’s latest accounts show its debt’s fallen massively
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