Edwin Heathcote
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social
FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Cool the way Mandelson says he has no record of the money from Epstein. Like he would have an excel sheet of corrupt bribes and dodgy ‘loans’.
February 2, 2026 at 7:52 AM
Cool the way Mandelson says he has no record of the money from Epstein. Like he would have an excel sheet of corrupt bribes and dodgy ‘loans’.
Camden Passage.
January 31, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Camden Passage.
Superb house here by Jonathan Tuckey. Paywalled but will post pics later. www.ft.com/content/9dae... Inside the rammed-earth home that breaks new ground on many levels @ftweekend.com
Inside the rammed-earth home that breaks new ground on many levels
A luminous, experimental house that has emerged from an old brickworks in Wiltshire is a lesson in innovative building with ancient techniques
www.ft.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Superb house here by Jonathan Tuckey. Paywalled but will post pics later. www.ft.com/content/9dae... Inside the rammed-earth home that breaks new ground on many levels @ftweekend.com
Piss shields of Lyon.
January 30, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Piss shields of Lyon.
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Beautiful architecture and down to earth (pun intended) - brilliantly written up by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social 👏
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Inside the rammed-earth home that breaks new ground on many levels
A luminous, experimental house that has emerged from an old brickworks in Wiltshire is a lesson in innovative building with ancient techniques
giftarticle.ft.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Beautiful architecture and down to earth (pun intended) - brilliantly written up by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social 👏
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Cafe in Lyon stuck wonderfully somewhere in the 70s.
January 27, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Cafe in Lyon stuck wonderfully somewhere in the 70s.
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January 26, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Well duh.
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject ft.trib.al/fdrazIJ
Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject
Review expected to propose a significant redesign after years of delays and overruns
ft.trib.al
January 25, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Well duh.
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What am I doing here in this endless winter?
Franz Kafka
Drawing, Franz Kafka, 1901
Franz Kafka
Drawing, Franz Kafka, 1901
January 25, 2026 at 10:38 AM
What am I doing here in this endless winter?
Franz Kafka
Drawing, Franz Kafka, 1901
Franz Kafka
Drawing, Franz Kafka, 1901
The best Investment I ever made was a hair clipper (1 of 2) I’ve had almost no hair since my early 20s and I’d sit in the barber shop watching him create extravagant hairstyles and when it was my turn he just needed to give a quick No 1. Maybe 2 mins vs 20 mins. I asked for a discount….
January 25, 2026 at 8:49 AM
The best Investment I ever made was a hair clipper (1 of 2) I’ve had almost no hair since my early 20s and I’d sit in the barber shop watching him create extravagant hairstyles and when it was my turn he just needed to give a quick No 1. Maybe 2 mins vs 20 mins. I asked for a discount….
Early morning backstreet Soho.
January 24, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Early morning backstreet Soho.
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Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.
Might now be a good time to revisit £200bn spending on a Trident programme entirely dependent on the US?
January 21, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Might now be a good time to revisit £200bn spending on a Trident programme entirely dependent on the US?
This is great. So brown. So Sunday.
'The Gramophone.' (1923) In the 1920s Henry Lamb echoed Walter Sickert: pared-down interiors, blunt forms, and a restricted palette of greys, ochres, and greens. Mood over polish, paint as atmosphere, not so much as display.
January 20, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This is great. So brown. So Sunday.
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Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/7692...
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/7692...
January 17, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/7692...
@edwinheathcote.bsky.social: www.ft.com/content/7692...
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Read this and tremble — @edwinheathcote.bsky.social on the scary truths about AI data centres:—
'the gods that could destroy us, housed in the most generic buildings imaginable'
'Where does all the heat they generate go? ... It dissipates, slowly heating the planet'
as.ft.com/r/266debec-9...
'the gods that could destroy us, housed in the most generic buildings imaginable'
'Where does all the heat they generate go? ... It dissipates, slowly heating the planet'
as.ft.com/r/266debec-9...
Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre
[FREE TO READ] These impersonal warehouses are the 21st century’s calling card — architecture for the computing power we are training to outsmart us
as.ft.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Read this and tremble — @edwinheathcote.bsky.social on the scary truths about AI data centres:—
'the gods that could destroy us, housed in the most generic buildings imaginable'
'Where does all the heat they generate go? ... It dissipates, slowly heating the planet'
as.ft.com/r/266debec-9...
'the gods that could destroy us, housed in the most generic buildings imaginable'
'Where does all the heat they generate go? ... It dissipates, slowly heating the planet'
as.ft.com/r/266debec-9...
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The FT's architecture critic, @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, on the banal, inhuman architecture of the 21st century: the AI data center. "An architecture built not for us but for the computing power we are coding and training (and which will be coding itself) to outsmart, even supplant us."
Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre
These impersonal warehouses are the 21st century’s calling card — architecture for the computing power we are training to outsmart us
www.ft.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The FT's architecture critic, @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, on the banal, inhuman architecture of the 21st century: the AI data center. "An architecture built not for us but for the computing power we are coding and training (and which will be coding itself) to outsmart, even supplant us."
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The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
January 14, 2026 at 7:09 AM
The FT got is architecture critic Edwin Heathcote to write about data centres and it's wonderful. www.ft.com/content/7692...
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A good depressing piece by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
‘Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century it was the railway station, for the 20th century it was the skyscraper. For the 21st century it looks like it’ll be the data centre.‘
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‘Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century it was the railway station, for the 20th century it was the skyscraper. For the 21st century it looks like it’ll be the data centre.‘
as.ft.com/r/2817c6fc-2...
Welcome to a post-human world: the vast anonymity of the data centre
[FREE TO READ] These impersonal warehouses are the 21st century’s calling card — architecture for the computing power we are training to outsmart us
as.ft.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A good depressing piece by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social
‘Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century it was the railway station, for the 20th century it was the skyscraper. For the 21st century it looks like it’ll be the data centre.‘
as.ft.com/r/2817c6fc-2...
‘Every age has its own distinctive building type. For the 19th century it was the railway station, for the 20th century it was the skyscraper. For the 21st century it looks like it’ll be the data centre.‘
as.ft.com/r/2817c6fc-2...
Is this real?
Ukip have submitted a new logo and slogan to the Electoral Commission, swapping the £ pound sterling symbol for a cross, that looks very much like it is modelled on the Iron Cross used by Prussia & Germany 1871-1918 and Hitler's Nazi regime from 1933-45
January 13, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Is this real?
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Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
January 12, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.
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"The Foreign Secretary said exercising the right to free speech and assembly should never come with the threat of.. reprisals"
January 12, 2026 at 9:05 AM
"The Foreign Secretary said exercising the right to free speech and assembly should never come with the threat of.. reprisals"
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So glad @edwinheathcote.bsky.social has just gone out and said that Lego kits stifle creativity. If you just want to make models, go to Airfix.
Lego should be simple, not smart ft.trib.al/W0KzUh0 | opinion
Lego should be simple, not smart
The introduction of tech to the most brilliantly basic of building blocks is an odd kind of futurism
ft.trib.al
January 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
So glad @edwinheathcote.bsky.social has just gone out and said that Lego kits stifle creativity. If you just want to make models, go to Airfix.
This idea that the Tories would prevent under 16s using social media is hilarious. It’d last exactly until a tech firm offers to give a grand to a minister.
January 11, 2026 at 9:24 AM
This idea that the Tories would prevent under 16s using social media is hilarious. It’d last exactly until a tech firm offers to give a grand to a minister.
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Though naturally reluctant to criticize Denmark at a difficult time, @edwinheathcote.bsky.social isn’t convinced by “Smart Lego” as.ft.com/r/4c23b02d-4...
Lego should be simple, not smart
[FREE TO READ] The introduction of tech to the most brilliantly basic of building blocks is an odd kind of futurism
as.ft.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Though naturally reluctant to criticize Denmark at a difficult time, @edwinheathcote.bsky.social isn’t convinced by “Smart Lego” as.ft.com/r/4c23b02d-4...