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Weve just got so used to buildings that are boring, says the man behind Londons revived Routemaster bus, Googles Bay View, and New Yorks Little Island..
New buildings, again and again, are too flat, too plain, too straight, too shiny, too monotonous, too anonymous, too serious..
While those features can often be aesthetically appropriate on their own, Heatherwick notes that its the relentless combination of them in the aesthetics of modern buildings and urban spaces that makes them overwhelmingly boring...
We havent been paying attention to the nutritional value to society of the buildings that are around us, Heatherwick says..
Heatherwick recalls a debate of elite people in the construction industry a few years ago about whether the opinion of the public mattered..
