Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 25/02/2026The gothic solemnity of Westminster station does it for me every. single. time. 69111
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I love and learned a lot from Gehry’s early work, specifically the hay barn and his Santa Monica house, but it’s very hard to look at the Battersea housing project and not think it falls into the first, not the second category. 010
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 12/10/2025My latest review for Building Design considers Jon Blair’s recent film about Eric Parry’s approach to architecture - The Art of Architecture - and offered the opportunity to ask some big questions, as the film does: www.bdonline.co.uk/briefing/the... 140
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 28/05/2025This feels like the most DS+R project ever: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... 020
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025And this, dear reader, is why people like this shouldn’t be anywhere near such consequential technology. ‘The coolest, really?’ And no, I didn’t read anything in the interview that persuaded me otherwise. 110
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 02/04/2025Sun setting over the Reichstag in Berlin, snapped while getting lost in Friedrichstrasse station. 040
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025There are concept sketches and then there are concept sketches…. www.ribaj.com/buildings/do... 362
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 28/03/2025You’ve reminded me that it wasn’t always like that - I had used it routinely for a couple of years (mostly passing through) in the 90’s when I also lived not far away. 010
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 24/03/2025Berlin, or at least a couple of pieces of the wall, comes to Lewisham. 030
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I was kind of getting into the virtual NG a little, but having discovered this painting again, I really just want to go and sit in front of it: imaginarium.nationalgallery.org.uk/imaginarium/... 110
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 02/03/2025‘Walls would be lined with waste materials from Portland stone quarries – less polished than most of the museum, and suggestive of excavation and archaeology.’ www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... 020
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 23/02/2025‘The Chateau in particular is a kind of halfway house, a perfect bardo, a suspension of reality.’ www.ft.com/content/442d... 000
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Actually made me think of this a little, a vault under the London Bridge viaduct at the end of Bermondsey Street 100
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 27/01/2025A (not quite) glassy river and a river of glass - two points on my travels today. 000
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery. 240
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Not one at risk AFAIK, but perhaps the most influential of these houses for me, was Pierre Koenig’s #21 100
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025I’ve been lucky enough to see Turrell installations on at least two occasions: in what was the Pace gallery at the back of the RA in 2013, and earlier in 2010 at Gagosian Britannia Street, including the Bindi Shards - which was quite something. 010
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Albrecht Durer’s Melencholia I, 1514: pdimagearchive.org/images/c341b... 000
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 12/01/2025There are far worse ways to spend your sunday evening than browsing the @pdimagearchive.bsky.social archive. This is Karl Blossfeldt in 1928 from Urformen der Kunst: pdimagearchive.org/images/fd18d... 130
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I always loved ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai)’, was disappointed not to see it included in this show. 140
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Not that the two are even remotely comparable, but for me it’s Witherford Watson Mann’s Nevill Holt Opera (2018) and McMorran Whitby’s Wood Street Police Station (1966) 120
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I can’t find anything else online to suggest that this is or isn’t the case, but it does give me an excuse to link to this extraordinary space: 032c.com/magazine/fro... 000
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Max’s routine look of ‘what on earth are you up to?’ 000
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 27/12/2024Somewhere in that fog, the City cluster. If you can’t see it, does it exist? 010
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Some great additions to the national list this year: historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne... / including Ashby Walled Garden in Lincolnshire, 16 Warley Way in Frinton-on-Sea, Broadmead Baptist Church in Bristol & Inglis Portable Military Bridge in Hampshire. 110
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Porter House Hotel, by Candalepas Associates in Sydney, reviewed by Kate Goodwin: architectureau.com/articles/the... 100
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Let’s also not forget the work of outstanding architects working in this field including Lacaton & Vassal in Bordeaux (below) 110
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Royal Opera House Arcade, Dixon Jones / BDP, opened 1999. 021
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Great photo of the painted ‘long shadow’ of Cecil Rhodes, taken in 2017 two years after his statue was removed from this plinth at the University of Cape Town - by Nic Coetzer. 100
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 16/12/202417/20: The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, Pier Vittorio Aureli. 010
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I’d forgotten to add today’s book, so am now addressing that oversight. 16/20: Image, Music, Text - Roland Barthes. 110
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 14/12/2024The long and bloody history of Smithfield Market: www.apollo-magazine.com/smithfield-m... 000
Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Anyway, its our office Christmas party today so happy happy to all those who are celebrating. (and credit to the AR whose image I think this is) 020