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  • "Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign is an incredibly reductive way of assessing the built environment"

    Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign fails to identify the causes of poor-quality architecture or ways to tackle them, writes Owen Hopkins. More

    Owen Hopkins | 1 October 2025 | Leave a comment
  • Artists sculpt Bland Castles out of sand for Heatherwick's Humanise campaign

    As part of designer Thomas Heatherwick's campaign Humanise, a group of artists has created sandcastles "mimicking the flat, lifeless buildings all too common in our towns". More

    Cajsa Carlson | 7 August 2025 | Leave a comment
  • "The tone in architecture is that the public is ignorant" says Thomas Heatherwick

    Architects should see themselves as providing a public service even when working on luxury apartment blocks, British designer Thomas Heatherwick tells Dezeen in this interview. More

    Ben Dreith | 3 June 2025 | Leave a comment
  • "We can humanise our existing spaces simply by deploying the radical power of colour"

    Making our buildings more colourful would be an easy and effective way to achieve the aims of Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign, writes Laura Guido-Clark. More

    Laura Guido-Clark | 15 July 2024 | Leave a comment
  • "We need Heatherwick – he is unique in our generation"

    Thomas Heatherwick has come in for criticism over his Humanise campaign, but here Aidan Walker mounts an impassioned defence of the British designer. More

    Aidan Walker | 2 July 2024 | Leave a comment
  • "Heatherwick naysayers are missing the point" says commenter

    In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the news that Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign is developing a master's degree at Loughborough University. More

    Rheanna Hopkins | 22 May 2024 | Leave a comment
  • Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign launches "joyful architecture" degree

    British designer Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign is developing a master's degree at Loughborough University, which aims to challenge conventional architecture education. More

    Lizzie Crook | 15 May 2024 | Leave a comment
  • "Did I wake up in the wrong multiverse today?" asks commenter

    In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign, which reimagines "boring" versions of UK landmarks including The Tower of London and Edinburgh Castle. More

    Rheanna Hopkins | 17 April 2024 | Leave a comment
  • Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign creates "boring alter-egos" of UK landmarks

    Creative agency Uncommon Creative Studio has made "boring" versions of UK landmarks including Buckingham Palace and Edinburgh Castle for Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 12 April 2024 | Leave a comment
  • Thomas Heatherwick selects 10 "humanised" buildings for Dezeen

    British designer Thomas Heatherwick has recently launched a book, radio series and campaign calling for more "humanised" architecture. Here he picks 10 buildings that are "givers rather than takers". More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 6 November 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Heatherwick's Humanise campaign launched to "spark public conversation about the way buildings make us feel"

    UK designer Thomas Heatherwick is launching his Humanise campaign today. In this interview, the director of the team leading the initiative, Matt Bell, explains what it aims to achieve. More

    Tom Ravenscroft | 19 October 2023 | Leave a comment
  • Le Corbusier responsible for architecture's "global blandemic" says Thomas Heatherwick

    British designer Thomas Heatherwick has taken aim at the "cult of modernist architecture" in a new BBC radio series. More

    Nat Barker | 11 October 2023 | Leave a comment

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