Louis Anthony Loftus
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PhD Candidate in Architectural History @Princeton (Dept A&A) | Writer (architecture, movies, ephemera)|🇫🇷🏠 🏛🏬 🚂🚅 🍁
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Some of my architectural photography from 2023:
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I actually really appreciate this tweet because now the absence of ads on airplane overhead bins delights me. I’ll try to enjoy it while it lasts
Does anyone know why airlines don’t put ads on the overhead bins?
Feels like a nice revenue opportunity sitting in *plane* sight
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Been pointed out before, but between the continued effects of the internet and the acute derangement of the pandemic, a significant proportion of the population has adopted the mindset of 12th century peasants
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These people are so stupid and evil it’s unbelievable
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I basically think every American conservative thinks this deep/not so deep down
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My buddy who lives in Munich just sent me a pic of the insane/incredible lightning fixtures in one of its u-bahn stations—I’m entranced
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See, this is why I could never stop being a catholic. Stuff like this
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The hatred San Fransisco tech yuppies have for the poor would’ve made 19th century British aristocrats uncomfortable
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The perfect alignment of the shadows cast by the trains with the coffers of the station vaults in the DC Metro is such an extraordinarily clever and beautiful design choice. Delights me every time I see it
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Would also be v excited to wake up to a cybertruck blocking my sidewalk every morning. Calling the city, the prospect of it getting towed—smiling just thinking about it
Imagine waking up to this every morning. I’m like a kid on Christmas Day every day!
Fkn love the Cybertruck
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The visceral contempt they would’ve had for Deco if they were posting in the 20s
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This is very interesting. Does anyone know how many edges the actual Japan has?
Map of Japan made from 5 to 500+ edges. Credit: Geoultras.
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The Edward Said reading room at Columbia’s Butler library. Houses nearly 2000 volumes from the Said’s personal collection. Lovely place to work, and where I did most the preparation for my comps at the end of 2021. Thinking about it now, for some reason
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Listen, there obviously are bad brutalist buildings—anodyne, boring, gimmicky, genuinely ugly, etc—but critics of Brutalism are uniquely bad at finding them.
@Komaniecki_R
Brutalist enjoyers see the most depressing dystopian building and say “ah yes cozy”
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There’s precedent for Presidents making jokes like this, but they don’t always age well!
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For my money, at least in terms of impact on the streetscape, this is the best and most exciting new residential architecture going up anywhere
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I've been enjoying the brickwork from the new mid-rise residential buildings erected in Iran recently
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I see people are discussing weird/cursed Las Vegas desert golf courses so I thought I’d share my personal favorite
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Going through back issues of my high school newspaper …
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America has lots of fancy airport terminals with glass canopies. We also have lots of police violence. But this isn’t enough for them — we also have to believe that the former depends on the latter, that both are inextricable elements of a just society
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Also, for those unaware, this exact kind of medieval-brain conspiracy theory is 100% standard fare on Joe Rogan, whose show has about 7 million subscribers. This wouldn’t crack the 10 craziest archeological theories aired on there this week
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The Alexandra Road Estate goes so hard. A housing future that might have been
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Imagine having a corner unit in the Flatiron Building … like living in Big Ben
The Flatiron office-to-condo conversion is underway.
Is there a more iconic building undergoing residential conversion anywhere in the world?
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@jordanbpeterson
It’s really bad in my city. The government only allows us to drive in designating narrow corridors marked off with painted line and sometimes even barriers. You can be arrested for driving outside these zones (on lawns, sidewalks etc). It’s monstrous
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This city is an 11 hour drive from DC *jaw drop*
This city is an 11 hour drive from the south of Texas *jaw drop*
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@the_transit_guy
[rightwing chud sees picture of an airport] see, this is why we need a police state
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I know you can do this awful before & afters for pretty much every US city, but pound-for-pound this is as bad as I’ve seen
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The monastery has always been brutalism’s best typology
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In my life I’ve never been to a neighborhood without a cafe that wouldn’t be improved by one
I think the U.S is the only nation in the world that zones 80% or more of its cities single family residential where not even a cafe is allowed.
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Obviously Walsh is trying to be provocative to drive engagement, but truly—get your average Republican talking about clean streets and law and order for ten minutes and they’ll say much the same thing
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@datadyne007
I believe they’re meant to indicate that this building was clearly not “built” in modern times, but discovered and partially unearthed. It’s basically just that buried St Basil’s meme
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This whole affair w/ the secret tunnel under 770 got me thinking about the building itself & the fact that a mid-century Tudor revival house (Edwin Kline, 1940) has become a symbol of Chabad. So indelible is that symbol apparently, that it’s been recreated all around the world🧵
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Lotta questions about the means of egress in the Harkonnen arena
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No, I’d say spray painting a swastika on a Synagogue has the same meaning it’s always had.
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The sliding glass door on an industrial rail is one of the weirder new apartment trends
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I guess between 1930 and 1950 architects suddenly decided to demoralize people and nothing else important happened 🤷♂️
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The annual family comedy about people who live in the richest suburbs of Chicago (Planes Trains & Automobiles, Uncle Buck, Ferris Bueller etc) is a genre I’d like to see revived
The worst part about re-watching Home Alone is you just know Kevin’s parents bought this house for like $250K.
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Next week Rachel and I move in to our new apartment and become the proud owners of these sexy built-ins
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Disappointed in how many people think it’s impossible to calculate. Where’s your drive?! Your can-do spirit?!!
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“Yo Jamie, bring up the ‘The Mud Flood Hypothesis’ … daaaang”
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I can’t believe the Hotel Pennsylvania is actually gone. RIP, goddamn
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Ukraine is home to some of Europe's coolest and wildest late-historicist architecture, pushing western trends to their formal and eclectic extremes. A sample: the Odessa Opera (1887), National Bank of Ukraine in Kiev (1905), and the Cernauti Residentia in Oblast (1882).
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A trad complaining about Boston City Hall is only ever two replies away from someone wishing the Nazis won WWII
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Folks, I don’t care about the “coastline paradox” or whatever. Just want to know how many edges the actual Japan has!
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Wild that this couple happened and people talked about anything else
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Fun fact: this crenelated tower on Riverside Drive (now a townhouse) is one of the few remaining fortifications from the defensive wall that was built around Manhattan in the late 14th century!
#architecturalhistory
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Charlie Brown had hoes
Tsar Nicholas ii was the best ruler of the 20th century.
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Corporate architecture’s gradual shift from the 20th century’s rigorous modernism to 21st century formalism
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@nelmagene2010
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How do you get around during the day? Do you have someone who guides you? Shows you how to open doors?
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My grandfather was a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were in a cathedral
together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer…
“We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.”
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@focusfronting
My fiancé (who knows north Philly well) was coming to visit me at school a couple years ago and suddenly realized that she was driving by the exit for 4 seasons total landscaping and decided to make an impromptu stop. Said it was like visiting a holy pilgrimage site
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Cool cross-section of a building in the 11e. Curious what led to the mixed use of rubble masonry and brick here, but it’s amazing to see this seam running down the wall, like vertical geological stratification
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Thinking about the architecture of financial fraud
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This is definitively NOT what subway stations are supposed to look like
This is what subway stations are supposed to look like. (Saint Petersburg)
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This is just what you wanna see — a nice sear and crust on the outside but pink in the middle 👌
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They’re closing the Pompidou for five years so add, yes you guessed it, bleacher stairs 🤦♂️
moreau kusunoki and frida escobedo win competition for centre pompidou 2030 renovation
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Since Vance is a pronatalist, I assume he didn’t use a pullout couch
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Maybe twenty years ago, but with todays technology I’m sure we could calculate it
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Some personal news: asked my best friend to marry me
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Once again thinking about Susan Sontag’s absolutely withering look to the camera during a 1969 interview when the host said something dumb
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Paid a visit this morning to the Musée national Gustave Moreau and my favorite staircase in the world
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Some (neo?) new formalism in Paris, courtesy of David Chipperfield.
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So much going on here: the main three-story arch, the wrought iron fenestration, the deep eaves over the single dormer, the strange basket-handle arches on the ground floor, the *glass brick* …
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@doublefml
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Cool for you to admit that the supposed “liberalism” is masking a seething bloodlust
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This little arcaded neoclassical solarium is a kitchen and I ogle it whenever I walk past
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“When [Sullivan] brought in the board with the motive of the Wainwright Building outlined in profile and in scheme on it, and threw it down on my table, I was perfectly aware of what had happened … a new thing beneath the sun … was born.” —FLW
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Amazing find: apparently upon the completion of the World Trade Center in 1973, Architectural Forum published a satirical retrospective entitled "WTC 2023," reflecting on the ("now almost forgotten") towers from 50 years in the future. They couldn't know how weirdly it would age
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Neat little brutal-esque high rise in the 15e with a tile facade
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The The Fisher Fine Arts Library really lives up to its big reputation. As fine a university building as I’ve seen
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More enormous baroque monuments to floor plans!
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we need to talk about how more men would get laid instantly if their rooms looked like this
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Two wildly opulent apartment entrances built within five years and two blocks of each other on Connecticut Ave NW
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Birthday twitter tradition: post a cool building in the replies, receive my thanks! 🎂 🎈 🏢🏛️
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Ive become obsessed with Jože Plečnik’s “Flat Iron Building” in Ljubljana. Absolutely perfect wedge
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@Ted04536250
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Just FYI, if you’re riding the subway, and you see someone being loud and unpleasant, don’t murder them, even if you have a wild terror-induced fantasy/blood lust
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Sumptuous cast iron relief panels ornamenting the base of the former Woodward & Lothrop department store (Henry Ives Cobb, 1902), one of downtown DC’s remaining Gilded Age jewels
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The truly amazing thing about Hoover Dam is that the aesthetic achievement is nearly as impressive as the constructional one. It’s a true total-work-of-art
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