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I agree that authenticity is by definition subjective, which then leads to a question of what or whose ‘intelligence’ is being mirrored. But that doesn’t change the fact that we die and machines do not and are certainly not designed with obsolescence in mind.

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As the article points out this is down to transhumanism and technology being a purported answer to human frailty. It is not, of course, and can only offer a pale, uncanny echo of human consciousness until it is able to die, and ‘knows’ it.

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For all that it’s processing (not thinking) mirrors human thought, we all know that at some point, our version of consciousness will end. LLM’s cannot die; they can of course be destroyed, but are not designed with their own demise as a fundamental counterpoint to existence.

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Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It touches on the point of human fragility towards the end (rather too much focus on Catholicism and Pope Leo for my liking) which starts to get to the nub of the issue.

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Dogs have owners, cats have staff.

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For those for whom the lucre is everything, by definition it can never be enough.

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I’ve seen this before - it pretty much lived on Modern House for years.

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It started badly with ‘new age designer’ and did not improve.

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Re-using materials in or near to a site will reinforce a connection to and rootedness in place. I don’t want to overdo the ‘storytelling’ aspect but those narratives will write themselves.

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And of course re-use is good on pretty much every metric as the article points out. The challenge will be to develop an approach like this at scale and retain a sense of human connection.

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Shape, colour, texture, weight and performance of materials all influence how we relate to them on a human, sensory level.

‘Form follows materials’ seems like it ought to be an obvious mantra but for, perhaps the last fifty years, it really hasn’t, and it’s good to see steps in that direction now.

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Bringing this across from another platform (not *that* one) as I think it’s really worth sharing: gxn.3xn.com/project/wate...

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Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Politicians should be happy and able to defend their actions and their motives. It says quite a lot about him that he isn’t.

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There’s that, certainly; I’ve only seen them in a museum and assumed the museum system would handle it (for posterity). Here I was more amused by the desk’s ridiculous name and Gehry’s interest in Inland Steel which throws up a host of questions…

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Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Now if it was actually made of ice…

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Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

No idea where the quote comes from but ‘achieving high office does not make someone, it reveals them’ is something that has been borne out with depressing predictability over the last decade.

Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

This piece is as good as everyone is saying. The last line is the tell: As ever, achieving high office does not make someone, it reveals them.

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Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

There are worse things to spend it on …

Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I mean. This stuff is so patently obvious (if nonetheless challenging to actually deliver), it’s almost as those who take the opposite view are doing so wholly in bad faith.

They can be a bit sniffy about laptops at certain times of the day, but the Library in The Standard has excellent acoustics (most don’t) so you can enjoy the atmosphere and still hear yourself think.

Also I do (obviously) love a good hotel lobby, so it be remiss of me not to mention at least one…

I frequent a lot of these spaces. Another nice, breezy place (in spring / summer, at least) is new-ish Medici Courtyard off Hanover Square. Good for informal 1-1 meetings and I have often used it for calls. The good coffee there is a bonus.

We could think a lot more about living collectively with reciprocal consideration for others IMO.

What I will concede - and I say this not as a housing expert - is that living accommodation is not designed with these practical issues in mind, if it ever was. We just live a lot more densely than we used to, so need to think more about how to share communal space.

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Nick de Klerk @nickdk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

This is such an odd headline. Firstly, I don’t know that many architects who hate washing lines (I certainly don’t) and secondly, rules about hanging washing outdoors are normally set by developers and other owners…

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6 out of 9, so not totally embarrassing, although the descriptions after you guess make it sound like it should be obvious…

Alongside, for example (and this was very much a late 90’s discourse thing), Roland Barthes and The Death of the Author.

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de Certeau’s writing was hugely influential to me as an architect-in-training.

And the thing is that this is ultimately a choice - it could have been very different - and the decisions that led to this form, this materiality, are rightly being questioned.

If the goal was to make something timeless it certainly feels like it’s from another age….

Michael Schulman @michaelschulman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Reposted by Nick de Klerk

I don't need a summary of what's available online, in biographies, or even in my own notes. I need to comb through and find the great details, decide what interests ME. No, it's not efficient. It's slow and painstaking. But I don't believe in efficiency as an ultimate good, especially in writing. /

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Goes to the point that the graphs / numbers are pretty much meaningless

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As far as I understand, machine learning, algorithms and LLMs are not (yet) being held accountable nor are their developers seeking to be. So the graph makes for a good headline and social media fodder, but not much more than that.

… and even if the utility / efficacy of AI improves somewhat, there will be a point at which the human education, experience, judgement and continued development demanded by regulation, professional indemnity and other accountability measures will unavoidably be required.

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