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• Thomas Heatherwick gets Le Corbusier all wrong | Letters

  27-10-2023 18:46
  
  Readers respond to an interview with the designer Thomas Heatherwick, who denounced the architect Le Corbusier as ‘the god of boring’Thomas Heatherwick believes Le Corbusier to be “the god of boring” and blames him for a generation of flat, shiny, plain, straight, monotonous and anonymous buildings (Thomas Heatherwick’s war on boring buildings: ‘I’ve never gone against the whole industry before’, 25 October). Really? I’ve visited Le Corbusier
  
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• ‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld

  27-10-2023 16:15
  
  The designer’s new book Humanise spearheads a campaign excoriating decades of bad building. Has he forgotten his own expensive disasters? Our critic hasn’tThe next global pandemic is already upon us, causing misery, sickness and poverty around the world, and even leading to outbreaks of war. It has been a “100-year catastrophe” in the making, spreading through our cities in plain sight with unparalleled virulence, leaving a devastating trail of depression, loneliness and
  
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