Edwin Heathcote
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social
FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Always wondered exactly what crows were supposed to be camouflaged against. Natural selection is a wonderful thing.
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Always wondered exactly what crows were supposed to be camouflaged against. Natural selection is a wonderful thing.
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Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.
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Delighted that Finding Ella Briggs has been named by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social as a @financialtimes.com Best Book of the Year in Art, Architecture and Design! Check out the full list here:
Best books of 2025: Art, Architecture and Design
Jackie Wullschläger and Edwin Heathcote select their must-read titles
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November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Delighted that Finding Ella Briggs has been named by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social as a @financialtimes.com Best Book of the Year in Art, Architecture and Design! Check out the full list here:
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I just learned the the Shubow-Ratti debate never happened but a panel discussion, "Classicism Now," with Justin Shubow, @katewagner.wehwalt.net and @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, moderated by Ratti, will be taking place this Saturday (5pm CET). Livestream via Ratti IG: www.instagram.com/crassociati/
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I just learned the the Shubow-Ratti debate never happened but a panel discussion, "Classicism Now," with Justin Shubow, @katewagner.wehwalt.net and @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, moderated by Ratti, will be taking place this Saturday (5pm CET). Livestream via Ratti IG: www.instagram.com/crassociati/
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As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession.
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/
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Tag me next time @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
(seriously go read this, it's a good take on the state of the profession - www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/e...)
(seriously go read this, it's a good take on the state of the profession - www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/e...)
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Tag me next time @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
(seriously go read this, it's a good take on the state of the profession - www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/e...)
(seriously go read this, it's a good take on the state of the profession - www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/e...)
Wish I had a Find My Phone function for my glasses.
November 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Wish I had a Find My Phone function for my glasses.
Autumn Lethaby.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Autumn Lethaby.
This is a low bar for having your life ruined.
November 14, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is a low bar for having your life ruined.
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A woman asked to share my table in a cafe at lunchtime and we both sat opposite each other, silently eating our food like an unhappy married couple.
November 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A woman asked to share my table in a cafe at lunchtime and we both sat opposite each other, silently eating our food like an unhappy married couple.
‘Still, I held out hope that Mamdani’s sex-offender opponent would ultimately prevail.’ Terrific this from McSweeneys. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...
If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere
“New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
‘Still, I held out hope that Mamdani’s sex-offender opponent would ultimately prevail.’ Terrific this from McSweeneys. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...
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Highpoint I, Highgate
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
November 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Highpoint I, Highgate
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
1933-35
Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton
Image from RIBApix
The advice is don’t start a culture war. Missed that boat.
🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bo...
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The advice is don’t start a culture war. Missed that boat.
Fantastic that David Szalay has won the Booker. Amazing year for Hungarian(ish) writers with Krasznahorkai’s Nobel: Booker Prize won by 'extraordinary' Flesh by David Szalay www.bbc.com/news/article...
Booker Prize: David Szalay's Flesh wins 2025 fiction award
The British-Hungarian author wins for his sixth novel, which has been championed by Dua Lipa and Stormzy.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Fantastic that David Szalay has won the Booker. Amazing year for Hungarian(ish) writers with Krasznahorkai’s Nobel: Booker Prize won by 'extraordinary' Flesh by David Szalay www.bbc.com/news/article...
Marcel Breuer at the Whitney. 1967. What a shot. Photographer Evelyne Burnheim.
November 10, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Marcel Breuer at the Whitney. 1967. What a shot. Photographer Evelyne Burnheim.
Breuer’s old Whitney. Now Sotheby’s. Restored and adapted by Herzog & De Meuron. Terrific. on.ft.com/4nMuByQ Now home to Sotheby’s, the Breuer building remains a brutalist masterpiece
Now home to Sotheby’s, the Breuer building remains a brutalist masterpiece
The beloved concrete monolith gets an extensive revamp courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron, preserving a spectacular New York classic
on.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Breuer’s old Whitney. Now Sotheby’s. Restored and adapted by Herzog & De Meuron. Terrific. on.ft.com/4nMuByQ Now home to Sotheby’s, the Breuer building remains a brutalist masterpiece
Told you it wouldn’t happen. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Told you it wouldn’t happen. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...
London walk November morning.
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
London walk November morning.
on.ft.com/49azGh5 The Flatiron reborn: a pie-shaped slice of sky-high living
The Flatiron reborn: a pie-shaped slice of sky-high living
Edwin Heathcote has a first look at the apartments in New York’s charismatic, slender-prowed triangle of a landmark
on.ft.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
on.ft.com/49azGh5 The Flatiron reborn: a pie-shaped slice of sky-high living
No idea why but this made me cry with laughter.
"CHICKEN FINGERS is bonded with another cat, CAPTAIN STINKY PANTS. CAPTAIN STINKY PANTS is a charming 20-lb Maine Coon mix who hates children, has moderate bowel incontinence, and only eats sushi-grade tuna. CAPTAIN STINKY PANTS and CHICKEN FINGERS must be adopted together."
A Brief Questionnaire Before You Adopt This Rescue Cat
Thank you for your interest in CHICKEN FINGERS, an available cat with Furrever Rescue. Furrever Rescue currently has over a hundred cats that despe...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
No idea why but this made me cry with laughter.
Stark? They really called it that? And it blew up in their faces? www.ft.com/content/ebdf...
Drone start-up backed by Peter Thiel crashed and burned in armed forces trials
Berlin-based Stark failed to hit a single target in four attempts at two exercises with the British and German forces
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October 31, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Stark? They really called it that? And it blew up in their faces? www.ft.com/content/ebdf...