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Subsidence at Place des Vosges
Subsidence at Place des Vosges, Paris

This is the oldest planned square in Paris, built in the early 1600s in the Marais arrondissement.

Slot building
Slot building

This tall, narrow structure is a new stair tower for a house in Oxford, built as part of conversion into flats.

Pergola
Pergola

I've just completed building this pergola in my garden.

Small Practitioners' Conference at the IStructE

The Institution of Structural Engineers held a conference for small structural engineering practices on 14 June.

Barbican Centre
Barbican Centre

This is what the future used to look like.

Fantastic!

St Lukes
Plasticity in masonry

This is a Hawksmoor church, St Lukes, right by the headquarters of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Cantilever house
Surprising cantilever

I came across this house in Cambridge last weekend. It is a very daring cantilever on a house that is otherwise architecturally rather pedestrian.

Cleddau Bridge
Cleddau Bridge

This photograph, from my Easter holiday in West Wales, is from the abutment shelf of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.

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