Is it just me or is Thomas Heatherwick everywhere at the moment.
It’s not just you, he was even on the BBC.
The best way to become part of the news and stay in the limelight is to start talking about a subject that is going to be ‘controversial’. Saying there are “too many boring buildings in the world” is doing just that.
This is just for publicity!
Guess who has a new book?...all of this is to make his new book the next best seller to all those that think what Heatherwick says is worth reading.
Curiosity got the better of me so I checked out the price and found this review:
Humanise is a masterwork. It's quietly furious, impassioned, rigorous and forensic in all the right doses. It leaves me very hopeful indeed about how things could go from here. The Age of Boring might just have ended right now
Alain de Botton
What is missing in all of this talk of ‘boring buildings’ is that those buildings have a use and are being used, they have a purpose and all on a budget!
P.S. the Humanise paperback cost £15.99 so I ordered a Le Corbusier book instead, my money will be better spent!
Is it just me or is Thomas Heatherwick everywhere at the moment. I can’t pick up a magazine without seeing that smug face of his talking about how ‘boring’ architecture is!
Who made him the voice of architecture!
Long rant incoming, but I hate this guy and his “Humanise” nonsense. He “calls on people” for more interesting buildings and yet he’s guilty of the very things he criticizes.
For example, he has said that modern buildings are often "soulless" and "boring". Have you looked at most of his designs? Take his Vessel building in NYC, which is essentially just a giant staircase leading to…nowhere.🤦♂️ Never mind that people jumped off it, which led to its closure (indefinitely), but what the heck is it’s function? Or his Garden Bridge project in London, scrapped due to outrageous costs.
Heatherwick then had the audacity to blame Le Corbusier for the "global blandemic" of “uninspired buildings” but the reality is, Le Corbusier's work was considered groundbreaking and innovative, and his buildings are still admired today. I don’t think anyone is going to call Heatherwick's work “influential”.
You know what Heatherwick is a master of? Smoke and mirrors. He makes these claims to promote his projects, but in reality he falls short. He promised that the Vessel would be a new public landmark that would attract millions of visitors each year. Look at how that ended up.
At the end of the day, he is a designer who is more interested in generating headlines than in making buildings that are actually useful.😡
Heatherwick then had the audacity to blame Le Corbusier for the "global blandemic" of “uninspired buildings” but the reality is, Le Corbusier's work was considered groundbreaking and innovative, and his buildings are still admired today. I don’t think anyone is going to call Heatherwick's work “influential”.
A patronising take on Corbusier which is no more than you can expect of charlatans. Utterly nuts beyond belief.
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