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.

London New York. Few years apart.

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.

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.

Better with the awnings.

“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...

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.

Taichung.

Massive pay check to fuck something else up and leave.

The person of the year is just outside of the frame, sawing through the girder.

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...

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

$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

‘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.

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.

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.

Gehry full obituary here: www.ft.com/content/d174... Frank Gehry, architect, 1929-2025

Frank Gehry, architect, dies aged 96 on.ft.com/3KAu2dW

www.ft.com/content/2e24... Frank Gehry, architect, dies aged 96

Frank in his kitchen. RIP.

Frank Gehry RIP. Bad couple of weeks to be an architect.

The getting rid of juries has, in my opinion, a darker rationale. It means protestors, who are more likely to get let off when juries are involved, will now all be found guilty. Part of a sinister cross party agenda of slowly criminalising protest.

Steve Cropper! Oh no. Most minimal and brilliant guitar in soul. RIP

This looks a pretty disappointing list for the National Gallery new building. Have they ever seen a Kengo Kuma building?

I know most people don’t agree but I think this, Jean Nouvel framing Christopher Wren, is pretty good.

Bob Stern RIP. Didn’t agree with him on much but he was a substantial figure. The New York books alone were an astonishing achievement.

About to go on R4 to talk about the Stahl House. $25m and it’s yours.

Always wondered exactly what crows were supposed to be camouflaged against. Natural selection is a wonderful thing.

This is hard to argue with, by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/e...

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.” It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

Delighted that Finding Ella Briggs has been named by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social as a @financialtimes.com Best Book of the Year in Art, Architecture and Design! Check out the full list here:

I just learned the the Shubow-Ratti debate never happened but a panel discussion, "Classicism Now," with Justin Shubow, @katewagner.wehwalt.net and @edwinheathcote.bsky.social, moderated by Ratti, will be taking place this Saturday (5pm CET). Livestream via Ratti IG: www.instagram.com/crassociati/

As part of our Performance Review series, Edwin Heathcote sets out 12 key problems facing the architecture profession. https://www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/everything-wrong-edwin-heathcote-performance-review/

Tag me next time @edwinheathcote.bsky.social (seriously go read this, it's a good take on the state of the profession - www.dezeen.com/2025/11/17/e...)

Wish I had a Find My Phone function for my glasses.

Autumn Lethaby.

This is a low bar for having your life ruined.

Canterbury.

A woman asked to share my table in a cafe at lunchtime and we both sat opposite each other, silently eating our food like an unhappy married couple.

‘Still, I held out hope that Mamdani’s sex-offender opponent would ultimately prevail.’ Terrific this from McSweeneys. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...

Highpoint I, Highgate 1933-35 Berthold Lubetkin and Tecton Image from RIBApix