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Iranian architect Farshad Mehdizadeh is designing some of the most interesting mid-housing anywhere in the world right now A thread 🧵 Tabriz residential apartments

Very nice hybrid housing in Amsterdam Concrete podium and core, but with timber floors 29 apartments ranging from 43 to 182m2, all with access to a shared gym, kitchen and… sauna By Olaf Gipser Architects dezeen.com/2022/10/19/ola…

So this is all going well isn’t it?! “A top scientist at Harvard who has spent years unraveling the mysteries of tuberculosis woke up Tuesday morning and discovered an order from the federal government telling her to halt her research” bostonglobe.com/2025/04/15/met…

This afternoon, the The Telegraph published an interview with Kevin McCloud with the headline "Kevin McCloud: ‘Heat pumps aren’t good for poorly built, leaky houses’" The crucial context comes later when Kevin stated "I'd say the same thing about a gas boiler" 👀

If only more apartments looked like this! Designed for Esfahan, Iran, by Sina Eqestadi

MVRDV propose adapting a 20th Century church into a public swimming pool in Heerlen Positive adaptive reuse with a strong social function designboom.com/architecture/m…

More stadia should be built in combination with housing!!! Competition entry for the revitalisation of the Selman Stermasi Stadium in Tirana, by Frohn & Rojas

Serious timber housing with recycled Azobé wooden facades and solid wooden balconies in Amsterdam (though, interestingly timber columns and concrete floors) Not a fan of the bedrooms along the corridor though! By Marcel Lok and Workshop Architecten divisare.com/projects/52794…

Where do people think top STEM researchers are trained?

Fixed it: --> last year, the U.S. sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal **combined** --> every $1 of research funded by NIH generates $2.56 in economic activity --> more than 1.1M foreign students come to the U.S. each year

#France is smart!

Dwellings per 1,000 people isn’t a great metric (as it doesn’t tell us anything about how many people those dwellings can accomodate) Even so, while supply has been relatively high at times, Australia still lags behind the OECD average for dwellings / 1,000 people