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In Building Soul, Thomas Heatherwick’s recent Radio 4 series, architects are villains. According to the puckish designer of Google’s King’s Cross campus, the profession is in thrall to a ‘cult’ of modernism, intent on forcing us to live in houses that make us ill and work in offices that make us depressed. Is property ownership
Architects are often snobby about – and no doubt jealous of – the designer Thomas Heatherwick, who isn’t an actual architect yet still manages to wangle important building commissions. And he knows this. In his documentary for BBC Radio 4, Building Soul, where he examines what he calls the ‘blandemic’ in today’s architecture, he asks
Thomas Heatherwick launches his Humanise campaign today. Here the director of the team leading the research project explains what it aims to achieve.
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing a visitor centre in a 100-year-old Greek vineyard.
British designer Thomas Heatherwick has taken aim at Le Corbusier and the "cult of modernist architecture" in a new BBC 4 radio series.