Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 23/09/2026“I am the code” is something you normally only hear in DC from health department inspectors on final walkthrough overriding previously approved plans 220
Reposted by Brian MillerAlexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'm a huge fan of the "gabled glass lobby between two masonry wings" building typology. Its master was Gottfried Böhm from about 1975-1990 812316
Reposted by Brian MillerMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 11/09/2026America’s broad consensus view on housing is that it should be cheap when people are buying it (affordability!) and expensive when people are selling it (Building Generational Wealth For Families!). 217925
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Foster continues to innovate as the industry leader in autonomous vehicle-related proposals that will clearly never result in anything, congrats once again to their PR department 020
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 24/08/2026if an airport lounge can be “authentic” then the word has no meaning (it has no meaning and it’s not a helpful descriptor in any situation) 262
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 22/08/2026the NYT piece also claims DC has never built a racetrack but that’s not true - there was a Le Mans Gran Prix event near RFK Stadium in 2002 and it was so disruptive that it only happened once, the rest of the ten year contract was cancelled en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Gr.... 1122
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 14/08/2026every architect is strangely compelled to entrap a single existing tree within a small courtyard www.dezeen.com/2026/08/14/l... 020
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Went to the Memorial Bridge equestrian sculptures today and it’s not a reflecting pool situation, the work was done by top notch craftspeople from The Gilders’ Studio and you can faintly see the gold leaf squares in the last pic. You can hate the expenditure and aesthetic, but it’s the real deal. 082
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I would never tell my clients a build would be nearly impossible, that’s practically means and methods. 120
Reposted by Brian MillerNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 22/07/2026check this out, y'all: roachclip_fuzz90bpm.midi 061
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 17/07/2026the DC Council should look at how event projections panned for the CareFirst Area (St Elizabeth's) they funded before committing to Audi Field upgrades based on equally delusional projections 221
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 10/07/2026a good piece about can designs that signal to buyers "don't worry, I'm not an IPA" (the first canned craft beer, Dale's Pale Ale, was introduced in 2002, is quite hoppy, and strangely has since evolved their can design to feel like more of a mass market lager throwback) 030
Reposted by Brian MillerBrian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 06/07/2026new GROSS/GREAT up now, going deep on the new LACMA building’s baffling approach to lighting artwork open.substack.com/pub/grossgre... 032
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 06/07/2026new GROSS/GREAT up now, going deep on the new LACMA building’s baffling approach to lighting artwork open.substack.com/pub/grossgre... 032
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 06/07/2026I feel like this room from Paul Rudolph’s Edersheim Residence (1970) is THE au courant reference in hospitality interiors, at least from what I’m seeing in new work and renderings. Wraparound walls and built-in shelving, a glammy ceiling echoing the seating area below, a narrow warm palette. 130
Reposted by Brian Miller◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Haven't visited LACMA yet but @b-miller.bsky.social's solution sounds like a sensible one: Arrange the works by where they make the most sense with the lighting open.substack.com/pub/grossgre...open.substack.comLACMA, Upon ReflectionAn uneasy relationship with light at Zumthor's new David Geffen Galleries 261
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 01/07/2026the open gangway and higher capacity cars are good changes but I'd vastly prefer the color palette and warmer lighting from the originals, more vibrant by day and more inviting and less clinical by night www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202... 120
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I've always admired Herzog & de Meuron's ability to work at the top of the field without a signature style and against the grain, heirs to Saarinen in the way they approach each project as a unique set of challenges and solutions www.dezeen.com/2026/06/11/h...dezeen.comHerzog & de Meuron transforms Titlis Tower into "iconic sculpture"Herzog & de Meuron has transformed the industrial structure of the Titlis Tower in the Swiss Alps into a sculptural tourist destination. 110
Reposted by Brian MillerJessica Sidman @jessicasidman.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"They look out for each other. They’re a clique. They don’t like outsiders, they really don’t. They’re cutthroat. They’re ruthless.” Inside the food truck mafia that's become a fixture of the National Mall ⤵️ washingtonian.com/2026/06/29/d...washingtonian.comInside the Food Truck Mafia Wreaking Havoc Around the National MallTurf wars. Food and fire hazards. $15 ice-cream cones. How an organized network of unlicensed food trucks took over America's Front Lawn. 094
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 27/05/2026bring back restaurants that just say they have fusion cuisine instead of making up a story about a trade route and cultural exchange that (quite famously!) did not exist between Japan and the Mediterranean 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026akin to Peter Saville’s 1993 cover for New Order’s Republic 100
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 14/05/2026at what point does an interchange qualify as a textile from a woven art perspective 001
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 06/05/2026restaurants/bars/nightclubs that opened before 1980 and still feel that way should have a vibes-based exemption from smoking bans 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Liz roots out the midwest's most distinctive places like a truffle pig for worn naugahyde booths, and in this piece I spoke with her about the things that give restaurants a soul and the shift from places with regional identity to personal identity 053
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 05/05/2026this is entirely too credulous towards the actual parameters of parametricism - it’s an aesthetically driven practice that points to technology as determining the forms while in reality it’s more like rolling dice until they show the outcome you wanted in the first place 110
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 04/05/2026real bicentennial 1976 vibe to all these kiosk names 010
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many candles in my life as I did during Semana Santa in Seville last month - at their peak during the moments when some plazas and streets would shut off their lights while processions passed 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 02/05/2026the Kengo Kuma portico at Angers Cathedral is catching a lot of flak but it's no more radical in appearance or function than the baroque loggia of Santa Maria Maggiore, screening but set apart from the romanesque facade www.dezeen.com/2026/04/29/k... www.liturgicalartsjournal.com/2022/02/the-... 020
Reposted by Brian Millermtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/04/2026a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically 313734876
Reposted by Brian Millerbankbryan @bankbryan.com · 29/04/2026Oh my god I want to live on this floor 021
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Rye Bunny, a new counter service restaurant we designed in DC’s Adams Morgan. It’s a cozier revamp of the former Michelin-starred Tail Up Goat space we designed a decade ago for the same owners, reflecting a shift to more casual dining even at the high end. washingtonian.com/2026/03/31/r... 130
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 26/04/2026The monastery of San Juan de Los Reyes in Toledo, an Isabelline style complex bringing Flemish and Mudéjar touches to the late Gothic. Not much from the outside but it opens into my favorite cloister in Spain, completed in 1504. 010
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 23/04/2026we’re all tremendously humbled to be designing the tower of babel, a project that at its core is all about demonstrating our ability to communicate with one another 130
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 20/04/2026construction material and labor pricing is up enormously BUT I think we’d also be able to build remarkable things with today’s budgets if we didn’t have to include HVAC and sprinklers and designed according to early 20th century electrical and plumbing standards 010
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 16/04/2026William H. Whyte would have loved this www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/d... 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 15/04/2026the Washington Post ran a piece on Zwiesel Fortessa’s Jupiter glassware series, crediting them as the originator of the style when they’re very obviously copying Iittala’s Kastehelmi series, designed by Oiva Toikka and first produced in 1964, reintroduced in 2010 and quite popular 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 15/04/2026to be fair this is someone who’s spent decades repackaging the the original creative output of others under his name, he’d understand the appeal of the technology better than most 040
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 12/04/2026one of many perfect two line exchanges in Jacques Tourneur’s noir Out of the Past (1947) with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 09/04/2026seems like the simple answer here is “the AI slop food images are LESS off-putting than they food they’re turning out” 010
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 08/04/2026rendering vs. reality, sucks so bad that glass, shear walls, and cantilevers have real physical properties 020
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 08/04/2026used to think El Greco painted crazy then I went to Toledo and it just looks like that 030
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 06/04/2026“Writing about accolades given to Providence- and Portland-based chefs and restaurants is the closest Boston publications will come to writing about national achievements in food.” www.richardeaglespoon.com/blog/bostonrichardeaglespoon.com 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 06/04/2026Toledo Cathedral, 13th-15th century, really magnificent Spanish Gothic with some French roots and Mudéjar aspects, a shame the anteroom of the chapterhouse was closed but it’s still an embarrassment of riches 031
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 06/04/2026100% of AI psychosis cases would cease immediately if models didn’t validate/compliment their users 100
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 31/03/2026for all the bullshit that living in DC currently entails, our collection of free museums have long been the greatest interface between the federal city and local residents - an incredible resource in both quantity and quality 000
Brian Miller @b-miller.bsky.social · 28/03/2026León Cathedral, Spanish Gothic with a very French accent, 13th-15th century 042