Edwin Heathcote
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social
FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
I’m no longer an architect. Decided not to pay my ARB fees this year. Haven’t practised for 25 years but it’s a curious thing to lose your profession overnight. Need to change my letterhead.
January 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
I’m no longer an architect. Decided not to pay my ARB fees this year. Haven’t practised for 25 years but it’s a curious thing to lose your profession overnight. Need to change my letterhead.
London tap water, which always used to be so good, now tastes really sharply of chlorine. Horrible. Thanks Thames Water, another triumph of privatisation.
January 6, 2026 at 8:51 AM
London tap water, which always used to be so good, now tastes really sharply of chlorine. Horrible. Thanks Thames Water, another triumph of privatisation.
Taichung Museumbrary. SANAA. Amazing public space.
January 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Taichung Museumbrary. SANAA. Amazing public space.
www.ft.com/content/14d2... Taichung’s museum and library complex weaves together art, light and learning. SANAA in Taiwan. Paywall here but a few pics to follow.
Taichung’s museum and library complex weaves together art, light and learning
The Taiwanese city’s Museumbrary is a stunning new civic space
www.ft.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 PM
www.ft.com/content/14d2... Taichung’s museum and library complex weaves together art, light and learning. SANAA in Taiwan. Paywall here but a few pics to follow.
London New York. Few years apart.
December 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
London New York. Few years apart.
Watching now. Is The Godfather a Christmas movie?
December 28, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Watching now. Is The Godfather a Christmas movie?
I always find these memorials at Postman’s Park unbearably moving. They make my eyes water every time. It’s a lovely idea, to commemorate ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
December 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I always find these memorials at Postman’s Park unbearably moving. They make my eyes water every time. It’s a lovely idea, to commemorate ordinary people who do extraordinary things.
Might sound an odd Christmas piece but here’s me on why arcades are the essence of London at Christmas, and of urbanity itself. www.ft.com/content/e6cd... When the shopping arcade sparkles back to enchanted life
When the shopping arcade sparkles back to enchanted life
These remarkable remnants of early modernism find their true calling at Christmas
www.ft.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Might sound an odd Christmas piece but here’s me on why arcades are the essence of London at Christmas, and of urbanity itself. www.ft.com/content/e6cd... When the shopping arcade sparkles back to enchanted life
Merry Christmas from the City.
December 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Merry Christmas from the City.
Better with the awnings.
December 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Better with the awnings.
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“Architecture is slow and I’m afraid we are destroying its meaning.”
From @edwinheathcote.bsky.social’s interview with Diébédo Francis Kéré: www.ft.com/content/a286...
From @edwinheathcote.bsky.social’s interview with Diébédo Francis Kéré: www.ft.com/content/a286...
Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’
The Pritzker-winner on building ‘from the earth’, why modern architecture is going too fast — and how it all began with wobbly school benches
www.ft.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“Architecture is slow and I’m afraid we are destroying its meaning.”
From @edwinheathcote.bsky.social’s interview with Diébédo Francis Kéré: www.ft.com/content/a286...
From @edwinheathcote.bsky.social’s interview with Diébédo Francis Kéré: www.ft.com/content/a286...
I don’t want to be all Scroogey but I’m getting ooo replies now from
People who will be back on 6th Jan. As someone who does not get paid holiday I could weep.
People who will be back on 6th Jan. As someone who does not get paid holiday I could weep.
December 18, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I don’t want to be all Scroogey but I’m getting ooo replies now from
People who will be back on 6th Jan. As someone who does not get paid holiday I could weep.
People who will be back on 6th Jan. As someone who does not get paid holiday I could weep.
Massive pay check to fuck something else up and leave.
OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion ft.trib.al/kpZiA3a
OpenAI hires George Osborne to spearhead global ‘Stargate’ expansion
Former UK chancellor to lead start-up’s effort to spread ‘democratic’ AI across the world
ft.trib.al
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Massive pay check to fuck something else up and leave.
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The person of the year is just outside of the frame, sawing through the girder.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
The person of the year is just outside of the frame, sawing through the girder.
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Excellent interviewee, excellent interviewer @edwinheathcote.bsky.social. Lamb sounds pretty good too. I'm really excited for Kéré's Rio library. www.ft.com/content/a286...
Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’
The Pritzker-winner on building ‘from the earth’, why modern architecture is going too fast — and how it all began with wobbly school benches
www.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Excellent interviewee, excellent interviewer @edwinheathcote.bsky.social. Lamb sounds pretty good too. I'm really excited for Kéré's Rio library. www.ft.com/content/a286...
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Sometimes Lunch with the FT is not Robert Jenrick pissing everyone off, it's Africa's most feted architect, DiébédoFrancis Kéré, in Moro with @edwinheathcote.bsky.social and it's just a vibe. Enjoy. as.ft.com/r/7183320a-1...
Architect Diébédo Francis Kéré: ‘My life is serendipity’
[FREE TO READ] The Pritzker-winner on building ‘from the earth’, why modern architecture is going too fast — and how it all began with wobbly school benches
as.ft.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Sometimes Lunch with the FT is not Robert Jenrick pissing everyone off, it's Africa's most feted architect, DiébédoFrancis Kéré, in Moro with @edwinheathcote.bsky.social and it's just a vibe. Enjoy. as.ft.com/r/7183320a-1...
This is good from @hawthorne.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is good from @hawthorne.bsky.social
$1 million in mattresses?
A Hollywood director has been convicted on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the cash for lavish purchases that included several Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari and about $1 million in mattresses and luxury bedding.
Director convicted of scamming $11M from Netflix and going on lavish spending spree
A Hollywood director has been convicted on charges that he scammed Netflix out of $11 million for a show that never materialized, while he instead used the cash for lavish purchases that included several Rolls-Royces, a Ferrari and about $1 million in mattresses and luxury bedding.
bit.ly
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
$1 million in mattresses?
www.ft.com/content/5937... From sheds to super-stadiums, the football ground is bigger than architecture. Including Home Ground, curated by @petecollard.bsky.social
From sheds to super-stadiums, the football ground is bigger than architecture
Amid an evolution from standing terraces to high-tech arenas, the sport’s industrial working-class legacy lives on in new designs
www.ft.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
www.ft.com/content/5937... From sheds to super-stadiums, the football ground is bigger than architecture. Including Home Ground, curated by @petecollard.bsky.social
‘The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret’ fantastic new acquisition at the National Gallery in London. Absolutely worth it. Just look at that fella.
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
‘The Virgin and Child with Saints Louis and Margaret’ fantastic new acquisition at the National Gallery in London. Absolutely worth it. Just look at that fella.
I learnt to microfilm documents when I worked for Kodak one summer.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I learnt to microfilm documents when I worked for Kodak one summer.
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As the Mayor of London adopts the coat of arms that once belonged to the Greater London Council, here’s @edwinheathcote.bsky.social making the case for the capital’s government returning to its real home: County Hall on the Embankment #fromthearchives buff.ly/whyNAa5
It’s time for the government of London to return to its rightful home
Norman Foster’s City Hall has been denied listed status a second time. But the more important question is: when will the capital be run from County Hall again?
apollo-magazine.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:20 AM
As the Mayor of London adopts the coat of arms that once belonged to the Greater London Council, here’s @edwinheathcote.bsky.social making the case for the capital’s government returning to its real home: County Hall on the Embankment #fromthearchives buff.ly/whyNAa5
Yes.
Finally a piece in the Times about the British Library! It echoes many of the points I raised a few weeks ago, including why policymakers and the media have paid so little attention to it
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
www.thetimes.com/article/ff7a...
December 8, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Yes.
My uncle David Heathcote died a couple of weeks ago, I’m going to post a few of his works, he was a wonderful artist and a truly lovely man.
December 7, 2025 at 10:40 AM
My uncle David Heathcote died a couple of weeks ago, I’m going to post a few of his works, he was a wonderful artist and a truly lovely man.