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cy / sal sun 🐚

@cyhsal.bsky.social
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Public servant by day, illustrator by night. Architecture, Modernism, and the 20th-century. • 📩 artofcysun@gmail.com • 📍 London/Essex

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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“London is flat” ok but have you experienced the rolling hills and shifting landscapes of South London™️? I think more people should go to West Norwood or something and behold the stunning topography (sorry pic through a bus window)
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Overheard at uni: “Morning, how are you!” “I’m okay, except I thought it was Saturday this morning”
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Skymningen 🌄 Being able to draw Skogskrematoriet at will is not a normal skill, but it is one I possess. Happy 141st, dearest Asplund; forgive me for serving angst on your birthday. 🍰 #gunnarasplund #skogskyrkogården #illustration #architecture
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生田目和剛(Nabatame Kazutaka) @nabatamekazutaka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Enoshima Bay from the Sunlit Stairs" (2022)
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tallum, assorted 🌲🖊️ #sigurdlewerentz #gunnarasplund #illustration #sketch
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thinking about how Léonie Geisendorf loved the ballet and the opera, always had the same seat, and traumatised her grandkids by dragging them along one too many times. I knew I was right to clock her as the extrovert of EGT #ralpherskine #léoniegeisendorf #anderstengbom #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Another year, another Open House! This year I am sending postcards from the @isokongallery.bsky.social penthouse 🪴🪑:
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Skogskyrkogården is lowkey my third space bc I have genuinely had so many fun encounters here. This time: a Japanese priest who pilgrimaged here after reading about it in a jp book I’ve never seen. I showed him the jp Asplund books I know about, one of which I later saw in the visitor centre shop.
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Accidentally ended up in Stockholm on Swedish election day so I am once again sending postcards from my big pine forest while the wheels of democracy do their thing (hi from A+L btw):
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fascinating day at @c20society.bsky.social's symposium on New Towns. Still seems like such a good and effective model.
Front cover artist's impression Irvine Leisure CentreBack cover map of New Towns
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
DAI DAI DAI KIRAI (Tallum ver.) 🌲 New Tallum film! This time, the other side of the story. #sigurdlewerentz #gunnarasplund #illustration #architecture #animation
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
👁️📽️ #petercelsing #johancelsing #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I got a Series 7 chair and guys. This is so great. Arne babe I’m sorry I wasn’t familiar with your game!! I retract everything I ever said about hardback Modernist chairs!! 🪑 #arnejacobsen #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Tallum, redux 🌓🌲 #sigurdlewerentz #gunnarasplund #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Amalienpassage in Munich (1969-77, Jürgen von Gagern, Peter Ludwig and Udo von der Mühle; colours by Eva von Gagern-Hübsch), a sweet little housing scheme that links up two streets with a series of lovely courtyards filled with all sorts of shops and cafes. This too is how we live together 🖍️:
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Nothing like an 11pm beigel at the correct Brick Lane beigel shop and then being complimented by a teenager on your outfit while waiting for the bus. Fundamental London experience
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Hbd to the guy with severe daddy issues. 🍰 Working out an alt ver where he just looks more and more like his dad (this is, in fact, the canon) #hansasplund #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bengt Lindroos berättar: Kaknästornet 📺 The big number of all big numbers! Swipe to read 👉 #bengtlindroos #illustration #comic #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hbd to my beautiful gorgeous princess Sverre Fehn!! 😚🍰🩷 A few extra Storhamarlåven pictures from spring that I never posted here:
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Storhamarlåven reopened yesterday with a shiny new building so let’s go celebrate! Round 2, Sverre Fehn I’m back 🤍 Nice day out enjoying the sun and playing a game of “what did Fehn mean by this” ☀️💭🪏
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Sverre Fehn’s extension to the Norwegian Architecture Museum (now Nasjonalmuseet - Arkitektur; 1997-2008) has reopened. This is a great time to be a Fehn fan. Featuring, to my surprise, many delectable corners 💠:
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Nothing like thinking about a specific thing from a specific book and then being able to immediately pull the book off the shelf because you ✨have it✨
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
UK repertoire dragging me back to them this year. I present the Early Modern churches ship, it’s FX Velarde and NF Cachemaille-Day. Is this anything? 💁‍♀️ #fxvelarde #nfcachemailleday #illustration #architecture I promise!
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The tangent from Neave is thinking about Gordon and Alan; accordingly B+F old stuff. Someone talk to me about them in Japan please I beg! 🧎‍♀️💜 #bensonandforsyth #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Morning detour through Neave Brown’s Alexandra Road Estate (1972-78), so lush and green and filled me with hope. Maybe this is how we live together 🌱:
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Recently, vol.3, or: emotional support dead architects. Big books are good for hugs as well as reading ✏️ #sigurdlewerentz #gunnarasplund #illustration
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Moots and friends, your best Munich recs for a weekend please? Buildings/food/both at the same time/etc? TIA! 😘
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Terra, Terra, bara Terra 🎸 #illustration #music #fanart
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Happy 141st birthday to the prettiest gentleman of them all! Sorry for stopping by two days too early because I didn’t have enough holiday left to stay until the day itself. 💐❣️ Plus, postcards from his flower shop, I like that they’ve been having the lights on recently:
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Was a part of a row of physical book readers on today’s flight and I think the world is healing
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Gunnar Asplund really thought he could just port the court theatre at Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen to his Bio Skandia in Stockholm and that no one would notice. Not in the year 2026! Oh no, baby, you’ve got some explaining to do:
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Goodbye, Peter, I hope all is well again. Please send Richard and Paul my love. #ahrendsburtonandkoralek #illustration #architecture
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Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · 14/07/2026
ABK co-founder Peter Ahrends dies aged 93
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ABK co-founder Peter Ahrends dies aged 93
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まのでまりな❤️‍🔥TCM2【58】&009展7/19~ @mrn0093.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Rosalie
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Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
66 Frognal, Hampstead 1938 Connell, Ward & Lucas buff.ly/bnM00Jo www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/66-frognal.h...
A colour photograph of 66 Frognal. A modernist house in Hampstead
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Recently, vol. 2 🖊️ #illustration #sketch
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
分かっちゃいないね (Tallum ver.) 🌲 My plan of “rope the kids into 20thC architectural history by showing them there is old man yaoi” continues (it’s working). Them again! #gunnarasplund #sigurdlewerentz #illustration #animation #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Tallum, outtake #gunnarasplund #sigurdlewerentz #illustration
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Love letter from my commute, I’ll never not find Minories Car Park (1968-69) attractive 💌:
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Robert Proctor @rproctor.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Park the bus now, yes?
Reinforced concrete vaults and lines of skylights roofing a bus depot with red London buses in it. Photo of Stockwell bus garage of 1952 by John East.
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Barndomen är lång och smal som en kista, och man kan inte ta sig ut ur den på egen hand #toveditlevsen #illustration #literature
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Tallum scribble, secretly a redraw of that one Haaland/Bellingham clip (my IG feed is full of them). Practice sketch that got out of hand (as usual) #gunnarasplund #sigurdlewerentz #skogskyrkogården #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I think Erling Viksjø had a type when it came to artists but I cannot prove it 🤏 #erlingviksjø with #oddtandberg #carlnesjar & #kaifjell; #illustration #architecture
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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🗓️ After a short hiatus, C20's Building of the Month returns with new editor Mark Bessoudo. Our July entry is the exquisite Valhallabadet pool in Gothenburg, Sweden (1956), threatened with demolition. Words by Veronica Hejdelind, photography by Jonathan Hökklo. ➡️ c20society.org.uk/building-of-...
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Living Better 🏘️ Happy birthday to both of us, Kjell Ödeen! 🍰💖 This year’s bday card is your big beautiful exhibition. BB45 let’s go 🌠 #wejkeochödeen #illustration #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A delightful evening at the Blue House to celebrate the launch of @c20society.bsky.social’s new book on C21st buildings (my century! 🥳), for which I had the pleasure of writing about my princess 🤍:
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Alistair Fair @alistairfair.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I've co-organised a symposium with @c20society.bsky.social on 10 September to mark 80 years of the New Towns Act, and the launch of Elain Harwood's final major book, 'New Towns Mark One', which I edited (and the sequel to which I'm now writing). Details here: secure.c20society.org.uk/Default.aspx...
Market clock at Harlow on a building with blue and white striped tiles. To the right is a tower block
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Norwegian update: did Norskprøven reading/listening practice exams for fun today and (encouragingly) breezed through B2… maybe I should work more seriously on this, actually?
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Eg smile (Viksjø ver.) 🏢 Viksjø debut for his birthday! 🍰 “Gratulerer med dagen” and I gave him angst of the highest order. Promise I did this out of love #erlingviksjø #regjeringskvartalet #illustration #animation #architecture
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cy / sal sun 🐚 @cyhsal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Back to the Norwegians for a bit; I like this trio. The boys about to cook up absolute bangers in naturbetong 🖌️ #erlingviksjø #carlnesjar #pablopicasso #illustration #architecture
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