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Simon McCormack @simonmccormack.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I've recently started volunteering with this group in S London. It's a welcome antidote for anyone despairing at the state of the world. It's a small gesture but if it means one more dragonfly cruising though Catford next summer I think that's a worthwhile outcome! www.instagram.com/p/DQpZAtBjTx...

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Simon McCormack @simonmccormack.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

#Chester cont... there are also upper level arcades with shops on the principal streets, which follow the lines of the crossroads of the Roman castrum or fort. The centre has a strongly medieval character although many of the structures are 19C Victorian

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Simon McCormack @simonmccormack.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

#Chester Beautiful promenades on the city walls & beside the River Dee. As a Londoner, used to a sprawling urban landscape, I appreciate a place with a clear definition between town & country. Unfortunately Chester's post-war road 'improvements' & unpleasant pedestrian underpasses create barriers

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Thanks Simon. I now tend to tell a story (or, in this case, a city) just through details. I really enjoy this approach to photography.

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Simon McCormack @simonmccormack.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This small group of early-morning bathers congregated on the beach at Deal in Kent but instead of swimming they just stood in the water. I later realised that this was because the water quality is so poor, due to sewage discharge, that swimming could make them unwell. What a shameful situation

Early morning. A small group of bathers standing in a calm sea next to a pebble beach

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Mark Pimlott @pimlottmark.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Vicenza I 2024

The central, false, street. Scene of Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza. Andrea Palladio, Vincenzo Scamozzi

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Ode to the Grid. An office building as a glulam-frame addition to the existing fabric of a manufacturing site.

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Some others from the past (Forest Hill urban renewal, as Discourse Architecture)

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Charles Holland @charlesjholland.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

The current state of UK housing supply is clear in this image. Because house builders develop one field at a time and because no one is actually planning where and how housing happens, it ends up like this, fenced off, oblivious to its surroundings and without any sense of what comes next.

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Bruno Tonelli @brunotonelli.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Is there still a place for dreams in the world of Trump, Musk, Farage, Bezos, Orban, Le Pen, Putin, Meloni? We still dream of social housing as a possible reality, even here in Italy. @municipaldreams.bsky.social

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Simon McCormack @simonmccormack.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Cement dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures at Crystal Palace Park, London completed in 1854 to complement the relocated Great Exhibition of 1851. London has been dank and misty over Christmas - weather which shows them to advantage! The models are inaccurate but represent 19C understanding

Autumn scene with figure of concrete dinosaur

Autumn scene with water channel and concrete dinosaurs

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

In the US and the UK, two of the countries with the highest levels of income inequality (www.nature.com/articles/d41...), homelessness has grown last year by over 18% and and 14% respectively. Shocking figures! www.yahoo.com/news/u-saw-1... and www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 04/12/2024

Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!

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Simon McCormack @simonmccormack.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Eduardo Paolozzi's enigmatically titled 'A maximis ad minima' (from the greatest to the least), 1998, looking good in Kew Gardens despite the cold & wet. I like his characteristic aggregation of figurative and abstract elements. He credits his assistants and students at the RCA who cast the bronze

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Bryon Russell @bryontrussell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This is the way. Curbless equals accessible.

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Simon McCormack @simonmccormack.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

'Frank Auerbach: Portraits of London' at Offer Waterman Gallery. This show was a revelation - these paintings are the best thing that I've seen for a long time. In fact since I saw the exhibition of his portraits at the Cortauld! Each painting has a very different character and colour palette

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