‘Dangerously misguided’: the glaring problem with Thomas Heatherwick’s architectural dreamworld

The designer’s new book Humanise spearheads a campaign excoriating decades of bad building. Has he forgotten his own expensive disasters? Our critic hasn’tThe next global pandemic is already upon us, causing misery, sickness and poverty around the world, and even leading to outbreaks of war. It has been a “100-year catastrophe” in the making, spreading through our cities in plain sight with unparalleled virulence, leaving a devastating trail of depression, loneliness and