{"id":624,"date":"2023-10-11T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T09:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smalldivine.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2023-10-11T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T12:44:13","slug":"le-corbusier-responsible-for-architectures-global-blandemic-says-thomas-heatherwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/smalldivine.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/le-corbusier-responsible-for-architectures-global-blandemic-says-thomas-heatherwick\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Corbusier responsible for architecture’s “global blandemic” says Thomas Heatherwick"},"content":{"rendered":"
British designer Thomas Heatherwick<\/a> has taken aim at the “cult of modernist<\/a> architecture” in a new BBC<\/a> radio series.<\/span><\/p>\n Heatherwick, whose numerous high-profile projects include Little Island<\/a> in New York and Google’s headquarters<\/a> in London and Silicon Valley, made the comments in\u00a0a three-part series on BBC Radio 4<\/a> called Building Soul with Thomas Heatherwick.<\/p>\n “I think we’re living through a global ‘blandemic’ in building design,” Heatherwick told listeners in the second episode, aired on 10 October and titled The Cult of Modernist Architecture.<\/p>\n “This age of boring has resulted in soulless, inhuman urban environments.”<\/p>\n “Why do the modern buildings that have colonised our towns and cities look so dull?” he continued. “And why can’t the whole industry of people who make them see this?”<\/p>\n