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edwinheathcote.bsky.social
FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
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Its worth noting that in Britain, Mamdani would have thrown out of the Labour Party by a small room full LinkIn weirdos and then replaced by a former private healthcare lobbyist who would go on to lose by 5,000 votes to a Reform candidate who was a convinced sex offender.

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This is not very good. Thank you for your attention on this matter: Queen Elizabeth memorial to include Prince Philip www.bbc.com/news/article...

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London cherries! Best crop yet.

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This article by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social is so good and so full of architectural culture that reading it is one of the best things you can do today:

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Condome. Soane Museum, at the rear.

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Pathetic.

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Buried deep in the BBC iplayer is this gorgeous film with Martin Scorsese talking about Powell and Pressburger. His commentary is beautiful, insightful and really moving. Recommend it. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Details from the Apollo Victoria. Ernest Wamsley Lewis and William Edward Trent, 1930. Cinema thriller Relief by Newbury Abbot Trent, the architect’s brother.

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Is that what the tonsure was for? A target?

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Delighted to see The Expressway World by Richard J. Williams selected by @edwinheathcote.bsky.social as one of the Best summer books of 2025: Art, Architecture and Design in @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/f968...

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Hypocrisy here is off the scale. Tell me again how many hospitals Israel has bombed in Gaza? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

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Incredible colours at the John Soane house on a sunny afternoon.

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We're hiring a Publicist/Senior Publicist to work out of our New York office - apply soon!

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Of course Orban has quit the ICC. Now the Tories can cream themselves over some more fantasies of independence. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

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“Can you gentrify punk, drugs and the lives of countless failed bohemians and alcoholics? Of course you can. This is New York. Commoditisation of culture is its point.” Enjoyed reading @edwinheathcote.bsky.social m on the renewed Chelsea Hotel. on.ft.com/407ATjF

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Theatrical truck.

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The night before, with our friends and their children, we had sat under the peaceful sky, sharing food and watching the meteor shower in the dark night above the village. Three years on and they still watch the same sky at night, but now for the drones and missiles sent to destroy them.

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I visited Herzog & De Meuron’s reworking of the Hotel les Trois Rois in Basel. Pics here too: on.ft.com/4kZWAdG Les Trois Rois: Basel’s only five-star relaunches with a Herzog & de Meuron twist

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Les Trois Rois: Basel’s only five-star relaunches with a Herzog & de Meuron twist https://www.ft.com/content/10469cd8-fb05-4817-8559-551efc8501f2

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Sly Stone and Frederick Forsyth. The 20th Century was eclectic.

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Kings Cross.

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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉

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Financial Times editorial on Israel, calling on Europe to recognise a Palestinian state www.ft.com/content/8856...

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What a completely weird story this is.

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