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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 21

I have a small but elite tier of fans.

Screenshot of a TikTok comment from God. “Very well articulated and explained. Thank you George.”

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 14

Giving people what they want (building physics content, according to the Tiktok algorhythm).

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 14

Is air conditioning bad for climate change - or part of the solution?
www.tiktok.com/@onepointfiv...

Air con - good or evil? Is air conditioning bad for the climate - which is the prevailing attitude in the UK? Or is it actually part of the solution? #overheating #climate #heatwave #architecture #phy...

TikTok video by George Morgan

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 13

I think the reason why there's almost no architects and building designers on tiktok is that while it's fun to make little videos, you can get 350k views, 16k likes and 573 comments.

And zero enquiries from it.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 13

Overheating is a massive problem in flats in London.

So what’s the cause?

youtube.com/shorts/Ov063...

Overheating Flats - what's causing this? #architecture #climatechange #overheating #london

YouTube video by One Point Five Architecture

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Aug 12

Why are these flats too hot? It's really simple. And it's not a 'lack of trees'.

www.tiktok.com/@onepointfiv...

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Overheating flats: @guardian are reporting that these new build flats in London are unbearably hot to live in. What's going on? #overheating #climate #heatwave #architecture #physics #construction #de...

TikTok video by George Morgan

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Collapse Faster! @maketotalcollapse.bsky.social · Jul 23

If you're in or have joined the Greens, and you're not voting for this man next week, then I seriously, seriously question your every political judgement.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · Jul 23

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jul 21

A weaker willed housing association might think that after the Grenfell fire, the safety of high rise buildings was important.

But Poplar Harca have the fortitude simply to not worry about it.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jul 21

Celebrating 1 year of telling #PoplarHarca about rainwater flowing into the electrical riser of a high rise building!

Poplar Harca truly have the confidence to ignore the haters and believe that electricity and water mix just fine.

Inspirational!

Selfie of me grinning and giving a thumbs up, in front of a puddle in a corridor, leading into the door of the electrical riser.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jul 12

Starting some transatlantic architecture beefs

vm.tiktok.com/ZNd5EC1Ar/

TikTok - Make Your Day

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 26

Wouldn't disagree with any of this, but you'd never get e.g. lawyers doing all this work for free.

Upstream of procurement systems is supply and demand: there are more architects than there is work for, so you can exploit them as much as you please.

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/david-l...

Procurement is the cause of low fees, leading architect tells AJ100

Accepting his AJ100 honour, Levitt Bernstein co-founder David Levitt spoke out against the ‘wasteful and costly’ process of public procurement and architectural competitions in his speech

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 15

Future cherries

I am stood next to a half barrel with a cherry sapling on it, watering it with a hose. A brick wall is behind and a dead hedge of twigs in front.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 15

I got some perlite in the end

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 14

Oh we’ve got plenty of that

George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 14

I shall go to the garden centre and get some of everything!

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 14

We’ve got half barrels with holes in the bottoms, for the fruit trees roots to grow through.

What kind of compost should we buy for the barrels though, and should we add stuff to hold moisture?

George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Apr 13

There’s a big plum tree that’s grown out of a half barrel, reconnected to what soil there is.

Might try that with our new trees: a base from which their roots can explore.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

It should have just mandated shutters or other external shading to windows, which would actually prevent overheating, rather than this unworkable mess.

I don't know why regulation is so bad in this country.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 10

Part O - the new regs to prevent overheating - is at fault here.

And it won't even work to prevent overheating, since they want you to open the window to cool the room down, which doesn't work when it's too hot outside.

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/opinion...

The Regs: The rules on window design are a contradictory mess

Geoff Wilkinson makes a plea for joined-up guidance on window design

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 4

Five years to get a planning approval for three houses!

The planning system is the main cause of the shortage of homes.

nation.cymru/news/housing...

Housing scheme approved after five year wait

Bruce Sinclair – Local democracy reporter A village housing scheme, first lodged half a decade ago, has been given the go-ahead. In an application recommended for approval at the June meeting of Pembr...

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 4

I feel entirely Chris Morris Jam Festival about this.
youtu.be/G07sWzYObnk

The Day Today - Chris Morris - Jam Festival Interview

YouTube video by Tobias14

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 4

This whole event is just incredibly embarrassing, architects humiliating themselves with this absurd nonsense in the hope of catching some rich client's eye.

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/winner-...

Winner of Barkitecture dog kennel competition revealed

A teepee-like structure made from handwoven willow has won this year’s Barkitecture dog kennel design contest

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · Jun 4

I submitted a complaint to the new Building Safety Regulator about a fire safety issue which the dipshit housing association is too incompetent to fix.

I'm not holding out much hope but we shall see.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · May 30

Tiny seedlings

Three minute green seedlings in the bare soil.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · May 28

A little insight into how archeology all ends up in layers.

Only about 12 years ago the tarmac surface under the abandoned carpark turned community garden was exposed.

Now there’s inches of soil on it.

Looking over a raised bed with some wee seedlings in it, to an area of tarmac, cleared into the bare soil. Brick walls with trees behind.

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George Morgan 🌈 @georgemorgan.bsky.social · May 27

North Americans build with what in Europe would seem more like packaging materials.