This really is a shocker. Where is it?

Holborn. November morning.

The Flatiron reborn: a pie-shaped slice of sky-high living on.ft.com/48SMxUW

A magnificent photo of Shaftesbury Avenue with cars glowing beneath an illuminated Lyric Theatre. London, 1954.

Let’s get past this crap that the king has ‘private income’ which will now sustain the ghastly Andrew. The income - about £25m a year - is from the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster which were appropriated by the crown from previous owners and, in the case of Sandringham, a massive piece of land, bought by Victoria with funds she received from parliament ie us, the stupid taxpayers who put up with this farrago. Today, the income from the duchies is not taxed. Like all the rest of it, it’s basically in its origin theft.

Stark? They really called it that? And it blew up in their faces? Drone start-up backed by Peter Thiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials ft.com/content/ebdfcf20-5b64…

This is good.

Soane Museum heads. ⁦@SoaneMuseum⁩

Jean Nouvel’s new Fondation Cartier is a subversive vision of a museum. Situated in front of the Louvre, this centre for contemporary art could have been a cliché — instead the French architect has created something truly provocative. By @edwinheathcote ft.com/content/8156f5df-55ac…

Cela aurait pu tourner au cliché : une immense ruine taillée à la manière de la Tate Modern (et il y a d’ailleurs beaucoup de briques et de béton brut exposés en sous-sol). Cela aurait pu être une fétichisation de l’esthétique — plutôt que de l’idée — du mécanisme, comme on le voit au Centre Pompidou. Ou encore une tranche de banalité minimale, telle qu’on en trouve au MoMA. Au lieu de cela, Nouvel a (trop) façonné quelque chose d’étrange et de fascinant : une immense machine à produire de l’inattendu. – @edwinheathcote dans le @financialtimes 📸 Jean Nouvel / ADAGP, Paris, 2025. Photo © Martin Argyroglo #AteliersJeanNouvel #JeanNouvel #FondationCartier #Architecture #ArtContemporain

Kings Cross.

Tetley Malthouse, Mill Street, Leeds, winter 1973, photo by Peter Mitchell.

Skopje: Kenzo Tange's brutalist lost utopia by @edwinheathcote on.ft.com/46Owe8L

Instead of assuming that older people would like to be put out to pasture, it suggests they might be happier in the streets they are familiar with and with all the amenities the capital has to offer, writes @edwinheathcote linkedin.com/posts/detter-%2…

Tommy Cooper’s grandad at Frieze Masters.

This is good.

Outstanding.

Free to read. But has a link so guess it’ll just get buried on here: on.ft.com/43gBwJa Jean Nouvel’s new Fondation Cartier is a subversive vision of a museum

I miss neons.

Pieces of Paris passages.