Reposted by James TaiteCanadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Compositional Study for tâpwêwin (Truth) Kent Monkman ~ Cree 2025 113036
Reposted by James TaiteNick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The new Axis of Evil. It's just Canada. 2020736
Reposted by James TaiteNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Not only should engineers study history, more historians should study engineering. Concrete is the second most used material on earth, a huge part of every economy, but there are about 10 english language academic histories of it. Is it really less important than another take on Lincoln? 🗃️ 2622331
Reposted by James TaiteBruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I have added some more accounts to my Starter Pack on Architecture and The Built Environment, among which @kristoncapps.bsky.social and other people. Please take a look: bsky.app/starter-pack...bsky.app 073
Reposted by James TaiteDr Tim Meek @limefinishes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cromarty on Wednesday; we harled this in 1999 & the owners have kept on top of maintenance, espc the Crowsteps. We looked at the archaeology of harl, thickness, detailing and galetting,& how it folded over the details. Nothing fancy or imaginative, just looking at precedent. Seamless architecture. 4498
Reposted by James TaiteMark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I passed this 1930’s church on Bull Bay Road in Amlwch a few times and just had to take a look. This is the Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea & St Winefride. It was designed by an Italian architect to look like the upturned hull of a boat reflecting Amlwch’s maritime history. 45310
Reposted by James TaiteMémoire2cité @memoire2cite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Architecture moderne, l'Église Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc de Rouen, son architecte, Louis Arretche, a voulu renouer avec la tradition de beaucoup de vieilles églises normandes en donnant à l'édifice la forme d'un bateau renversé ... Inscrit Monument Historique. 1174
Reposted by James TaiteTheodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"Stone is nature's precast." —Malcolm Holzman 062
Reposted by James TaiteNeil Flanagan 🧱🗃️ @jgbollard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The difference between building and architecture is that in architecture, the window is in the wrong place. 1155
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 21/09/2026get in loser we’re building with structural stone again another banger from @amintaha.bsky.social and Groupwork observer.co.uk/culture/arch...observer.co.ukThis wobbly-looking high-rise Stonehenge is the futureBuilt from three-tonne slabs of load-bearing rock, a new London apartment block makes a dramatic case for a greener alternative to concrete, balancing scale and sophistication with sheer chutzpah 612825
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026jointed bedrock of Nepean sandstone at the old Bishop's quarry 0153
Reposted by James TaiteJason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026A fascinating streetscape. This is Elbląg (Poland) where post-war reconstruction of its Old Town didn’t really begin until the late 1970s. It was inspired by the historical architecture, and built on the original street grid and building footprints, but with a very distinctive post-modernist style. 512317
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 16/09/2026www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.comUK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusionsStudy challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines 2123
Reposted by James TaiteJohn Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I know what he's saying but extremely funny to say this about a country that was created as "British North America", didn't have its own foreign policy until the 1930s, judicial supremacy rested in London until after WWII, and couldn't amend its own constitution into my lifetime. 918630
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026old quarry gone back to bush: spoil piles, plug & feather holes, worked quoins Rudy Wiebe's “ridge of gathered stones with poplars sprouting through it, a ridge winding out of sight into seemingly untouched boreal forest like the relentless esker of a human glaciation momentarily passing.” 0213
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 14/09/2026St. Paul's Anglican, 1868, Almonte, Fuller & Jones there's a nice agreement between the local limestone rubble walling and the Potsdam sandstone dressings... 152
Reposted by James TaiteLady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026NEXT SUNDAY! SUNDAY!! SUNDAY!!! Come take a walk with me through parts of Morgan Park on 9/20 at 11. I will tell you more about the neighborhood than you ever wanted to know. Link to tix in the next post, & here's a sneak peek: 35911
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 13/09/2026cabin, root cellar, and well. Belden's 1879 Carleton County Atlas shows a building here, land owned by Samuel Courtney 3243
Reposted by James TaiteKate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 09/09/2026This deserves translation- some of the famous curved balconies of Limoilou were made from off cuts of ⛸️ skate blades from a nearby factory. One hell of a TIL. 0207
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 08/09/2026St. Paul's Parish Hall, Charlottetown, 1905 Charles B. Chappell Another rockfaced pile of island sandstone 1184
Reposted by James TaiteAlexander Luckmann @aluckmann.bsky.social · 02/09/2026On O. M. Ungers’s 100th birthday, I wrote about his legacy of architectural design, theory, and history, and why it’s so relevant today www.archpaper.com/2026/09/o-m-... 26313
Reposted by James Taitedmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Entrance to St. John Bosco Catholic Church, 2250 N. McVicker, Chicago. Built in 1964, Belli & Belli, architects 2412
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 06/09/2026just thinking for no reason about the time the Commission de toponymie du Québec named a body of water Lac U.S.A. in the spirit of amity 052
Reposted by James TaiteJohn Van Hoesen, Ph.D. @jvh-vt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026One of the best photos I've seen illustrating the dry mortar techniques used to build & roof splitting sheds, signal huts, and quarrymen housing throughout North #Wales. #geology #thestoryofslate 182
Reposted by James Taitedmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Detail of the former Union Station in Springfield, Illinois, designed in 1896 by Francis T. Bacon. Bacon was the supervising architect of the Illinois Central Railroad system from the mid-1890s to 1907. He died at in 1909 at age 43. 3545
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026In the same position to the east of the Peace Tower is perched this somewhat fresher fellow; pulled up a photo of John Pearson, architect of the present building and sure enough that's him 3389
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 30/08/2026On the south wall of the Centre Block, west of the Peace Tower, sits this whiskered grotesque, pretty obviously a caricature of Thomas Fuller, designer of the first Centre Block, 1859-67, and Dominion Architect 1881-96 0223
Reposted by James TaiteWalking Eagle News @theeagleist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it? 363967975
Reposted by James TaiteAaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"Their hydronyms" is a legitimately funny punchline. 15729133
Reposted by James TaiteDarren M. A. Calvert @dmacalvert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZiX...youtube.comHasn't Hit Me Yet (2012 Remaster)YouTube video by Blue Rodeo - Topic 021
Reposted by James TaiteNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 25/08/2026It’s fine, you can’t change the name of anything referenced in “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”, it’s a legal document 1630108
Reposted by James TaiteTom Cat @suessmund.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I like this move. Doesn’t cost us anything, but makes us Canadians angry. Better than the other way round. 231
Reposted by James TaiteAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA 227147392820
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Love this line from Vance because he can’t understand that any neglect of our defence follows from our trust in the US to not invade. He can’t understand trust. He’s saying “you are suckers to trust us and we will punish you for that”, which is a weird approach to trade negotiations but hey 2122
Reposted by James TaiteJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Anglo Canadians being forced to conjugate être in the fourth grade: god I hate Quebec, French is the worst Anglo Canadians when an American insults Quebec: 351046224
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 24/08/2026issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the Premier of Ontario. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them" 081
Reposted by James TaiteStephen Maher @stephenmaher.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Carney’s FAFO moment stephenjmaher.substack.com/p/carneys-fa... 77024
James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Not surprising that Americans know nothing about Canadian history, but still astounding that they are oblivious to the truth that one constant in Canadian nation-building is American aggression… invasion in 1812 turned an ambivalent American-majority population into a colony loyal to the Crown. /1 1143
Reposted by James TaiteSam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yeah so we're demanding shit about minority language rights and national sovereignty over trade agreements while also funding an astroturfed separatist movement right on our border No parallels here, no reason to be alarmed, stop being such a hysterical lib obsessed with Russia 8563114
