Reposted by Gregory Duncansick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 14hthis video of Haruki Murakami super fans losing it after the Nobel Prize for Literature announced this year's recipient is Anne Carson (spelled Ann by store staff) is what it's all about, folks 017437
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Bieberschwänze! (Be careful translating that) 020
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Next time I’ll just “well, actually“ you lol. 010
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah I think you had a typo in your first reply “higher” instead of “lower”. We usually use ERVs in New York because of hot humid summers and dry winters 110
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Remember, you can avoid 311 heat complaints easily if you have a building designed to the Passive House standard 020
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 05/10/2026In New York this would be limited to six stories, and we don’t really have courtyards like this. On the plus side, bathrooms are required to be accessible here. 101
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 05/10/2026ERVs also have a bypass function that automatically (or manually) allows ventilation w/o heat and humidity recovery 010
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Right. An ERV (Enthalpy/Energy Recovery Ventilator) recovers >60% of the moisture that would otherwise be gained in summer or lost in winter. So ERV does bring in humid air if the absolute humidity outside is higher than inside but much less than ventilation w/o enthalpy recovery. 131
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Another affordable senior Passive House building breaks ground in the Bronx. Sol on Park, a public-private partnership designed by Magnusson Architecture and Planningconstructionowners.comNRP Group Breaks Ground on 229-Unit Bronx Housing ProjectThe NRP Group and partners break ground on Sol on Park, a 229-unit affordable senior housing development at Morris Houses in the Bronx. 032
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Researchers in the Netherlands are growing rice to protect peatland in a pilot project to mitigate and adapt to climate change apple.news/AKWvJ45fbTHi...apple.newsRice work: Dutch test new crop to save sinking peatlands — AFP NewsIn a soggy field between Amsterdam and The Hague, farmer Sander Roeleveld ploughs a small white combine harvester into his crops, gathering a grain never before harvested in the Netherlands: rice. 1102
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Ha didn’t see your reply before I sent mine. Good to know my GeoGuess was right though 010
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Apparently the one in New Haven Union Station is still there 010
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They look like phone numbers! (I know they aren’t) 000
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026From the AI “chain of thought”: “Now a syntax check plus a stubbed smoke test—I can’t run Revit here, but I can fake the pyRevit/Revit API surface and run the full logic against the real CSV” 000
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI isn’t conscious but it does do stuff very analogous to human thought. I’m building some custom tools to make Passive House design and documentation easier with Revit and Notion. 120
Reposted by Gregory DuncanBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves. 10381692845
Reposted by Gregory DuncanOpen New York @opennewyork.org · 23/09/2026🚨 OUR NEW POLL: New Yorkers squeezed by housing costs overwhelmingly back reforms to build more homes across the state. We commissioned Global Strategy Group to survey 600 likely voters. First reported today in @cityandstateny.bsky.social. What we found 🧵 181
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This block in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn always reminds me of the time I lived in Hamburg 020
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Senior housing? Big Alt I as new building? 110
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Seestadt Aspern, the brownfield development of a former airport in Vienna, is seeking proposals for some of the remaining lots 000
Reposted by Gregory DuncanJuraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026A cool solar PV facade and balconies on the 12-storey biobased apartment block in Malmö 🇸🇪 A total of ⚡ 218kWp system paired with 🔋 194kWh battery storage. Makes a lot of sense for low sun winter generation ☀️ via ETC Bygg 711331
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Hoof carriagesexternalizationeternitygestrigefossillobbyprofiteurs. iOS choked on gestrige (yesterday’s) and profiteure (profiteers). And soot yield knight , better: pollution-profit knight. 000
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The iOS translations and computer audio are hilarious. I think the best English word for this phenomenon would be autoasphyxiation. 140
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A really smart thermostat would realize that its goal isn’t to set the air temperature of a room but to provide thermal comfort to the occupants. Following this goal maniacally it would then solve climate change instead of killing everyone. 010
Reposted by Gregory DuncanNeon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The Neon Alphabet. Day 11: K is for Kuhn. 0687
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I read somewhere that neither account for convection losses within very tall hollow frames. 020
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 15/09/2026NFRC - one number for one size of window at a very low outdoor temperature. It encourages smaller spacers that perform better at 0 °F instead of wide spacers that perform better at 0 °C (and at 30 °C). NFRC better for determining heat load in cold climates. ISO for energy modeling. 110
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Why not make it an even 80 counties with Suffolk County, Massachusetts and the five boroughs? 050
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Apocalyptic looking sunset over the Hudson right now 150
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Looks thicker to me, especially in the other photos: strohtektur.de/now-lindow/strohtektur.deNOW Lindow - strohtektur.deNOW Lindow Das Ferienhaus in Lindow (Mark) ist in einem 1200 m² Permakulturgarten eingegliedert. Es bietet 90 m² Wohnraumfläche im Erdgeschoss und Obergeschoss. Mit einem großen Wohnküchenbereich im ... 110
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Also, a lot of the pictures of straw houses you see are in cold climates. Long Island doesn’t need as much insulation as Sweden! 263
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Saw this project presented at the Regenerative Metropolis Symposium in New York a few years ago. Nice to see it completed! Straw and CLT construction with balcony solar in Malmö, Sweden 0151
Reposted by Gregory DuncanInternational Passive House Association (iPHA) @ipha.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The new Passive House Building Database is here, with a smarter, easier-to-use experience for discovering and showcasing Passive House projects from around the world. 👉 Explore the new database and add your project: passivehouse-database.org 032
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 10/09/2026May be boring, but simplified plumbing could save a lot of money in new construction 141
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Can computers think? The question is just as relevant and just as meaningful as the question whether submarines can swim. Dijkstra 1984 040
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Bubbles vs Parking ! Bubbledeck is a legit way to reduce the amount of concrete in a floor deck, but this video shows how a bad design apparently caused a catastrophic collapse. Video in German with English subtitles available youtube.com/watch?v=9qTx...youtube.comWie Plastikkugeln ein Parkhaus zerstörten. - Baukatastrophen 14YouTube video by Rick Rieck 020
Reposted by Gregory DuncanJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026NEW BRIGHT SPOTS: A district heating system in France has run since 1332, still warming 100+ homes from hot springs. The tech is 700 years old. What's changed is what we can plug in: heat from rivers, flooded coal mines, breweries, data centres. janrosenow.substack.com/p/district-h...janrosenow.substack.comDistrict heating: the 14th-century technology that keeps solving 21st-century problemsHow heat networks can turn rivers, abandoned mines and data centres into sources of low-carbon heat 320465
Reposted by Gregory DuncanStreetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 05/09/2026Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront could finally get a working bus as the city plans 6,000 more homes for the area.buff.lyCity Floats Busway, Parking Maximums to Ease Traffic from Red Hook Redevelopment - Streetsblog New York CityCity planners want to institute parking maximums and build a new busway through Red Hook and the Columbia Street Waterfront. 1281
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Yeah, when he said he was going to use bricks made from dirt excavated from the hyperloop tunnels to build affordable housing… 063
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Nice timber church with a copper roof. Or is it a copper roof with a church underneath it? 180
Gregory Duncan @duncanarchitect.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Zoning TIL: you can store up to 1000 microcuries of uranium and thorium in manufacturing districts in New York 1110
Reposted by Gregory DuncanYonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 01/09/2026New York’s congestion pricing program has resulted in a statistically significant reduction in travel times for EMS vehiclesnber.orgUrban Congestion Pricing and the Response Times of Emergency Medical Services 61089297