Designer says soulless structures make people stressed and lonely as he launches book and campaign
is embarking on a crusade to persuade architects and developers to create buildings that inspire feelings of joy and stimulation.
But Heatherwick also praised the aesthetics of the Liberty department store in London, built in 1924, and the splendour of Royal Crescent in Bath, built in 1774. Ruth Dalton, a professor of architecture at Northumbria University, said: “Current research provides undeniable scientific support of the life-changing potential of attractive and appealing environments.”
A review commissioned by Heatherwick of the evidence around the hypothesis that buildings influence mental health, undertaken by the New Economics Foundation thinktank, supported his concern about the negative psychological effect of soulless structures.
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