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The Cultural Tutor
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    The Cultural Tutor
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    May 27
    I’m making a show about buildings. The concept is simple: do for the man-made world what Planet Earth did for the natural world. But, when I pitched the idea, the answer was that nobody would watch it. So I released a pilot episode on YouTube. It’s got 5.4 million views, 379k
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    Jun 18, 2022
    The Danger of Minimalist Design (& the death of detail) A short thread...
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    Jan 8, 2023
    Bridges represent some of the greatest achievements of human engineering and architecture. Here are 12 of the most extraordinary: 1. Millau Viaduct, France (2004) - the world's tallest bridge.
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    Dec 20, 2022
    Ancient people knew the earth was round. And about 2,240 years ago a man called Eratosthenes calculated its circumference within 1% of the correct figure... with a stick.
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    Feb 11, 2023
    India is home to some of the most beautiful and diverse architecture in the world. Here's just a few of the best: Hawa Mahal in Jaipur (1799)
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    Nov 26, 2023
    14 of the world's greatest religious buildings:
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    Jun 3, 2023
    This is a real place. It is a housing estate called Les Espaces d'Abraxas, built near Paris in 1982. And it's one of the most important buildings in the world...
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    Dec 6, 2022
    Why are cities all around the world starting to look the same?
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    Jan 9, 2023
    The Great Wave off Kanagawa, created by Hokusai in 1831, is one of the world's most famous paintings. But why are there more than 100 different versions of it in galleries all around the world? Because it isn't actually a painting...
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    Sep 27, 2022
    This painting is 600 years old. And that mirror in the background is barely ten centimetres across, yet it contains a reflection of the entire room. Including the artist at work, one of the greatest painters who ever lived, a man called Jan van Eyck...
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    Jan 10, 2023
    Skyscrapers used to be Art Deco and neo-Gothic, so what happened?
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    Feb 12, 2024
    This photo is 113 years old. It was taken by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, an early pioneer of colour photography. If you've ever wondered what the world used to look like, Prokudin-Gorsky's photos will show you...
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    Nov 26, 2022
    Thread of the most beautiful paintings of storms at sea: The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa by Hokusai (1833)
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    Jun 23, 2022
    Why Beauty Matters (and how it has been destroyed by "usability") A short thread...
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