Not until the early-20th-century embrace of concrete, mass production, and modernism did humans fully explore the realm of boringness. Ever since the first megaloceros hunters painted the walls of their caves, people have lived and worked in ornamented structures, complex even in their simplicity. Blah-ness is not a default setting, he says. ![]() Heatherwick has channeled that indignation into Humanize, a fat, lavishly illustrated screed against tedious architecture. In his view, nearly all contemporary architecture is worse than bad or clumsy or oversize or energy-sucking. ![]() What do you expect to see when the wrapping comes off a construction site, revealing a new apartment building, hospital, strip mall, or subdivision? Thomas Heatherwick, the designer of flamboyant showpieces like Little Island and Google’s tented Bay View campus in California, watches these unveilings like a boy opening a present he already knows will be socks. Photo-Illustration: Curbed Curbed Photos: Steve Lovegrove/Shutterstock, Getty Images, Courtesy of Heatherwick Studios ![]() A Heatherwick hall-of-fame of international boringness, clockwise from top left: Fukuoka, Nairobi, Moscow, Canberra.
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