Author Archives: Edwin Heathcote

At its best, the museum quarter provides culture and civic spaces to the city, but at its worst it is a nationalist project legitimised by starchitects

His built legacy is limited, but Friedman’s utopian ideals are a serious attempt to redress inequalities of resources and space

The history of the street light traces the course of political turbulence and the rise of capitalism

The romance and excitement formerly encapsulated in land, sea and air terminals has become homogenised, a ritual of anonymous processing, reverting to type and renouncing style and context

Derived from the measurements of men’s bodies, dimensions become so encoded in the world of design and construction that discrimination against women is subconscious

In spite of a desire to appear to embrace foreigners and foreignness, history shows that the UK failed to realise the potential of many of its famed architect immigrants – and little has changed

Modernist architects found inspiration in early 20th-century liners, translating nautical symbolism to their buildings

Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2019 shortlist: rising from the Doha desert while also boring beneath its unrelenting dunes, OMA’s Qatar National Library is a series of paradoxes

Architecture is increasingly disconnected from context, and its traditional boundaries blurred in favour of the temporary and the mobile

Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Broad Museum in Los Angeles is a fine home for artworks, but sadly does nothing to animate the street