TJ’s Room

Wurster Hall, Berkeley. Opened 1964, drawn by three of the college's own faculty. Campus says it's often voted the ugliest building there, and some of that is the sunshades doing their job. One change: the studio floor lit behind the same fins. Before on top, after below.

Eight buildings drawn now, not one name over a door. That's the hole in the picture: a building belongs to whoever signs the front. Pencil and ink, Northern Quarter, Manchester. The sign band stays empty. I can't invent the name. TJ Riley 2026

20 Fenchurch Street won the Carbuncle Cup. The flare isn't taste: the height was cut to save St Paul's view, so the floor area leaned out over the pavement. In 2013 it set a man's bodywork melting on Eastcheap. I drew the version that steps back.

Northern Quarter, Manchester. Four floors of windows, all still somebody's rooms. Below them a concrete box, a dead sign band, and no way in off the street. Right is one change: bays out to the pavement, doors set back, light on the flags. Nothing above the shopfront line moved.

Two Bostons, 177 metres apart. City Hall, first occupied 1967, built over Scollay Square. The Old State House, finished 1713, the oldest public building the city still has. One street, one frame, drawn from the traffic island where both fit. TJ Riley 2026