I expect those speakers are going to sound great in there 
Just spotted this news. Hardly surprising, really!
Learned to drive buses around this estate. Shame to see it go, but it wasn’t without it’s problems!
I reckon it’s something to do with an imminent DLR or Rail connection…
Apols for the Fail link but it had the best photos. Looks like an epic mid century stylish house.
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Wow. All power to them for taking on that. They’ll have a truly stunning house when completed though.
Novel airbnb?
In Latest Stunt, Airbnb Lists the ‘Up’ House. It Floats. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/business/airbnb-up-house-shrek-listings.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
1968 gas bar arch located near me. Was restored and designated a heritage structure in 2011. I love it 
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Stolen from Twitter but it’s a ubiquitous photo.
The deco entrance hall to Eltham Palace
I was entranced when I first saw this place in an episode of Poirot.
The rest of Eltham Palace is much, much older.
Fun fact: the wife’s cousin had her Big Dressing Up Army Thing in the medieval great hall there
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To this
this evening. It’s a relatively small exhibition but strong recommend all the same.
It’s less “India and Ghana” and more “Nehru and Nkrumah”.
And a punch in the cock to Modi for having this
destroyed out of sheer nationalist dogma. Although
Numerous new buildings designed by Modi’s favoured architect Bimal Patel (his Albert Speer, but without the talent, according to artist Anish Kapoor)
did make me laugh out loud.
It’s like a golf ball typewriter thingy.
The weekend FT had an article about Case Study houses, Richard Neutra and so on, and their modern equivalents.
They mentioned one house in the UK in “Crystal Palace” which got my antennae twitching and after digging around to find where it was I’d kind of dispute Crystal Palace and realised that I’ve walked past it hundreds of times.
“Six columns”*
It won a 2024 RIBA London award and the RIBA Small Project of the Year.
* presumably a reference to Lubektin’s Six Pillars which is just up the road.
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Well worth a gentle peruse.
Interesting application to convert Seifert’s “Thrupenny Bit” in Croydon
John East
from office to residential. The owners caught a cold after covid.
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Brilliant idea 
Once went for an interview there
As mentioned on Smith & Sniff
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/8-Sea-Cove-Dr-Rancho-Palos-Verdes-CA-90275/63093836_zpid/
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Yes please. Happily watch the world burn whilst sipping cocktails in the pool and looking out to sea.