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Edwin Heathcote

@edwinheathcote.bsky.social
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FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 11h
Parisian pavements.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The tomb of Dr John Yonge. Sculpted by Pietro Torrigiano who was famous for allegedly breaking Michelangelo’s nose in a bar room brawl. Maughan Library. London.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thanks Jacob
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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 11/10/2026
This is a great article. I have always loved postmodernist architecture, having gone past James Stirling's 1 Poultry pretty much every day on my way to school. I wish there was more of it, and more of it was appreciated.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I needed to concentrate on surviving interiors.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Remember it well. Excellent
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Terrific, thanks.
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Hugh Aldersey-Williams @hoooaw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Surprised at how delightful these spaces are (as a bit of an old modernist). Can I add a personal favourite: Michael Graves’s library at San Juan Capistrano, CA.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
That is good.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Will do. Also, tell me more about the Memphis pyramid, I’m going there in a couple of months.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.ft.com/content/431e... Gaudy, kitsch – and utterly glorious. Save our postmodern interiors
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Gaudy, kitsch – and utterly glorious. Save our postmodern interiors
The colourful style is at risk of extinction, says Edwin Heathcote
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Oh yes, very nice.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Post Modern interiors. Not many left. Free link. www.ft.com/content/431e... Gaudy, kitsch – and utterly glorious. Save our postmodern interiors
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Gaudy, kitsch – and utterly glorious. Save our postmodern interiors
The colourful style is at risk of extinction, says Edwin Heathcote
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That’s why it’s good to read @hetanshah.bsky.social
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Stephen Hawking’s clock. @sciencemuseum.org.uk
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is a fascinating picture
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I see London has beaten Trump in the race to get its own triumphal arch.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Very good, this, on why does nobody care about the disaster at the BL, from @hetanshah.bsky.social www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This fella looks the business.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Xaveer De Geyter, Melopee School Ghent. Outstanding.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s so funny. Now maybe more than ever. @privateeyenews.bsky.social was onto this for years. That judge was better than Peter Cook.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I used to nick these from My local WH Smiths. So good.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ghent.
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Christopher Hawthorne @hawthorne.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Concrete has become the ultra-processed food of the construction industry. It’s crazy. Why take stone, crush it, heat it, process it and then pour it? Why not just use the stone?”
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That’s right. Pouillon and the rest, they’ve kept it up beautifully.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How do you even begin to discuss this? US.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When the metaphor is right there: ‘The Migration Museum has moved between a series of temporary sites since it was founded in 2011’ Migration Museum given less space at new site www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Migration Museum given less space at 65 Crutched Friars
The museum was originally to be given three floors of a 21-storey tower block in the City of London.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That’s not good. www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/02/n...
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
CCA Tashkent. To go with my review here: www.ft.com/content/07e3... Uzbekistan aims for cultural clout with the Centre for Contemporary Arts
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.ft.com/content/07e3... Uzbekistan aims for cultural clout with the Centre for Contemporary Arts .
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Uzbekistan aims for cultural clout with the Centre for Contemporary Arts
The latest manifestation of the government’s ambitions is a generator station transformed into an airy exhibition space
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cool face-house. Ghent.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fine, as far as I understand. Lots of flexible joints.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Does Christa Pike now get billed for her medical treatment?
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.ft.com/content/0146... It’s time for a stone-brick revolution @groupwork.bsky.social @designmuseum.bsky.social
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It’s time for a stone-brick revolution
It’s low carbon, reusable, quirkily beautiful — and can be cheaper than concrete and steel. Why on earth aren’t more architects building in stone?
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s brave.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sometimes weeds are the absolute best.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And the answer to this is that the Falklands should become an Argentinian colony?
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This whole thing is insanely problematic. Firstly, do the settler colonial Argentinians not see the issue in their critique here? Secondly, an Anglo-Israeli oil exploration? WTF. Of all possible partners? www.ft.com/content/7296... Falkland Islanders grapple with Argentina’s ‘economic warfare’
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Falkland Islanders grapple with Argentina’s ‘economic warfare’
Restrictions from Buenos Aires have shaped life for remote archipelago 13,000km from the UK
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is great.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is that a Farrow and Ball flavour?
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social not sure of the artist. But great.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I guess the neighbourhood is now lower traffic, if he’s gone. Ergo, it’s working.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let them drown. This is good.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
No. Just colour coordinated
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Zumthor. Fondation Beyeler.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Swiss signs.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Always the wrong revolutions.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Foreign murderers.
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The newer Make building is a catastrophe
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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Mmm. But at least it had some ideas.
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