Neil Flanagan 🧱🗃️
@jgbollard.bsky.social
I am writing a book about the ways the founders of American urban planning experimented on the neighborhoods of Washington, DC before World War II. I am also a licensed architect.
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White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.
For 125 years, informal norms constrained what a president could do to one of the nation’s most famous landmarks.
www.theatlantic.com
The only thing that has ever stood in the way of the president building a big gaudy ballroom, is an understanding that the powerful would defer to self-appointed experts.
And now we see what a bad system that was.
And now we see what a bad system that was.
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
November 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
And it pains me to say, I was wrong
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
Love is not a symptom of time
Time is just a symptom of love
(Aquinas)
Thanks google, very AI
November 23, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Thanks google, very AI
The owners of the Spirit deserve credit for ditching the post-Bicentennial DC design tropes: making everything red white and blue, vaguely Americana, and polished and polite. We're lucky the red and burgundy was too iconic for the Commanders to change it like the Wizards. Just their own thing.
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The owners of the Spirit deserve credit for ditching the post-Bicentennial DC design tropes: making everything red white and blue, vaguely Americana, and polished and polite. We're lucky the red and burgundy was too iconic for the Commanders to change it like the Wizards. Just their own thing.
A cornerstone of professionalization of architecture is that it makes us self-regulating. Even today, joining the AIA means agreeing to a code of ethics.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
November 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A cornerstone of professionalization of architecture is that it makes us self-regulating. Even today, joining the AIA means agreeing to a code of ethics.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
It's rare, but any member can charge another with a breach of this code, and it seems it might happen for the architect of the Epstein Ballroom.
Another interesting survey.
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Another interesting survey.
Lads, if we can all just pool our money, I think we've got a shot.
November 22, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Lads, if we can all just pool our money, I think we've got a shot.
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If you’re traveling through O’Hare’s Terminal 5 over the holiday season, stop to see @chicollections.bsky.social’s holiday tree between gates M18 and M20!
November 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If you’re traveling through O’Hare’s Terminal 5 over the holiday season, stop to see @chicollections.bsky.social’s holiday tree between gates M18 and M20!
What a time to be alive
November 22, 2025 at 12:10 AM
What a time to be alive
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mom come pick me up, the fire pump company's horny again
November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
mom come pick me up, the fire pump company's horny again
Someone posted in the main Waldorf facebook group about getting metro to Waldorf, and it brought out a multiracial coalition of people afraid of the bus. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ack...
November 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Someone posted in the main Waldorf facebook group about getting metro to Waldorf, and it brought out a multiracial coalition of people afraid of the bus. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Ack...
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32 years ago today, we first witnessed the wonder of the My Dinner with Andre video game. “Boy-Scoutz ‘n the Hood” premiered November 18, 1993.
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
32 years ago today, we first witnessed the wonder of the My Dinner with Andre video game. “Boy-Scoutz ‘n the Hood” premiered November 18, 1993.
Mr. President... they've unlocked a third kind of reclamation.
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Mr. President... they've unlocked a third kind of reclamation.
So it is true...
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So it is true...
The number of people saying Devil in the White City makes me want to build a murder house.
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The number of people saying Devil in the White City makes me want to build a murder house.
It’s not at all clear from the obscurantist title but this book is a detailed history of AECOM, one of the biggest firms in the world and the engineers on the Epstein Ballroom.
November 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It’s not at all clear from the obscurantist title but this book is a detailed history of AECOM, one of the biggest firms in the world and the engineers on the Epstein Ballroom.
The plan: Stupid Full Sail University.
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
The plan: Stupid Full Sail University.
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NYC's 125,000 Baby Boxes: Mayor-elect Mamdani promised.
Number of babies born in NYC each year.
Cities can/should learn from each other.
All are different, so not copy-paste, but YES adapt & improve, what to avoid & what to adapt.
Finnish Baby Boxes with NYC's twist
Alexandra Lange bit.ly/4o3blO0
Number of babies born in NYC each year.
Cities can/should learn from each other.
All are different, so not copy-paste, but YES adapt & improve, what to avoid & what to adapt.
Finnish Baby Boxes with NYC's twist
Alexandra Lange bit.ly/4o3blO0
November 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
NYC's 125,000 Baby Boxes: Mayor-elect Mamdani promised.
Number of babies born in NYC each year.
Cities can/should learn from each other.
All are different, so not copy-paste, but YES adapt & improve, what to avoid & what to adapt.
Finnish Baby Boxes with NYC's twist
Alexandra Lange bit.ly/4o3blO0
Number of babies born in NYC each year.
Cities can/should learn from each other.
All are different, so not copy-paste, but YES adapt & improve, what to avoid & what to adapt.
Finnish Baby Boxes with NYC's twist
Alexandra Lange bit.ly/4o3blO0
Fascinating that this is the issue he decided to go popularist on.
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Fascinating that this is the issue he decided to go popularist on.
Alvaro Siza in Venice, in Macao www.instagram.com/p/DREch5WjUW...
November 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Alvaro Siza in Venice, in Macao www.instagram.com/p/DREch5WjUW...