The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings | Thomas Heatherwick

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🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Where did all the lumps and bumps on buildings go? When did city architecture become so ... dull? Here to talk about why cities need inspiring architecture, designer Thomas Heatherwick offers a path out of the doldrums of urban monotony -- and a vision of cities filled with soulful buildings that people cherish for centuries.

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0:00.0	I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to Ted Talks daily.
0:06.9	Thomas Heatherwick is a designer responsible for spaces you may have seen, or if you're
0:12.5	lucky enough, have visited the London Olympic Velodrome, a brand new Google campus, a green
0:19.2	park in the Abu Dhabi Desert.
0:22.0	In his Ted 2022 talk, he shares some of the framework behind his thinking, which is about
0:26.6	taking the long view when designing and building for the future.
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1:36.5	When was the last time you walked down the street and a city with new buildings?
1:44.2	I want to talk to you about the problem that we all know exists in our towns and cities.
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