Luis Fernández-Galiano   Just what is it that makes Heatherwick’s works so different, so appealing? I borrow the title from Richard Hamilton’s mythical collage to suggest answers. His work is so different and appealing because it understands architecture as experience, becau

Deyan Sudjic   It is perhaps more fruitful to look at what Thomas Heatherwick does, than to try define what he is. Heatherwick himself is hesitant about such definitions, in part because it is only now after almost 25 years in practice that he feels confident about

Heatherwick Studio   China   Under the motto ‘Better City, Better Life,’ the Universal Expo of Shanghai 2010 gathered over 200 countries, inviting them to reflect on issues like urban development, well-being, and sustainable growth. Aside from the usual requisites, one of the br

Heatherwick Studio   China   Designed by Heatherwick Studio together with Foster + Partners, the new finance center takes up the last plot available in the Bund of Shanghai, on the shores of Huangpu River, in a strategic site located between the colonial buildings by the waterfr

Heatherwick Studio   United States   The commission involved designing a public centerpiece for Hudson Yards, a new 11-hectare development on Manhattan’s west side being constructed above a huge rail yard. To create something memorable, the studio decided to build a structure that visit

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Heatherwick Studio   United States   Google’s new Campus in Silicon Valley is the first fully developed by initiative of the technological company. Commissioned to Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Heatherwick Studio in collaboration with the design and engineering teams at Google, the camp

Heatherwick Studio   Japan   Toranomon-Azabudai is the studio’s first built project in Japan. The site is located in the center of Tokyo. The existing piece of land had not been redeveloped since the Second World War and was in a state of decay. The project became an opportunity

Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   Located in Paddington Basin, just south of London’s Little Venice, the Rolling Bridge provides an extraordinary spectacle for those visiting, living, and working in the area, the 12-meter long footbridge opens by changing from a single solid platform

Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   With the purpose of offering an incentive for creative people and keeping students from moving to cities like London or Birmingham, the Royal Institute of British Architects, on behalf of the Aberystwyth Arts Centre, called a competition to build eig

Heatherwick Studio   Singapore   Conceived as a new educational referent in Singapore, the Learning Hub is a multipurpose building for Nanyang Technological University (NTU), with over 33.000 students. In the digital era, the old model of life-less classrooms off long daylight-less

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   Following their collaboration to design Google’s new campus in California, Heatherwick Studio and BIG were commissioned to create the company’s new headquarters in London. The team’s focus was not just to make special large workspaces but to find an

Heatherwick Studio   United States   The studio was commissioned by Related Companies in 2015 to design a new residential project in Chelsea, Manhattan, at West 18th Street. The site is split in half by the High Line, the elevated public park, and called for an inventive solution that w

Heatherwick Studio   United Arab Emirates   The studio was commissioned by Related Companies in 2015 to design a new residential project in Chelsea, Manhattan, at West 18th Street. The site is split in half by the High Line, the elevated public park, and called for an inventive solution that w

Heatherwick Studio   China   Following the success of the UK Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, the studio came into contact with clients in Asia and was invited to design a large mixed-use development – including residential, hotels, retail, and commercial units – on a

Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   Maggie’s Centres are places where people with cancer, and their friends and families, can go to find free practical and emotional support. Heatherwick Studio was commissioned to design a new center at St James’s University Hospital in Leeds. The site

Heatherwick Studio   United States   The location was the original Pier 54, on Manhattan’s southwest riverside, where the survivors of the Titanic disaster docked. Together with his wife Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller had been a key supporter of the celebrated High Line Park in New

Heatherwick Studio   Singapore   A home in a garden: Eden contains twenty apartments, with just one per floor. When stacked on top of each other, the apartments are quickly lifted out of reach of a ground-level garden, so the design team examined how to raise this greenery and threa

Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   Through a careful restoration, the project transforms the old mill complex into the new headquarters of Bombay Sapphire distillers. Located by the River Test, in Laverstoke, the site had become a cluttered and confused mess, with Grade II listed stru

Heatherwick Studio   South Africa   The grain silo of Cape Town had since the 1920s been used to store and process corn coming from different parts of South Africa. Over twenty years after it closed down, it has undergone an overhaul to house the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa

Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   Within the wider redevelopment of King’s Cross in central London, Heatherwick Studio has restored and transformed a pair of long Victorian warehouses with attached train viaducts to create a new public space and retail destination. The pair of elonga

Heatherwick Studio   Czech Republic   The aim is to bring new life to the heart of Prague by creating a unique and distinctive destination for the public, building both on the important location and the richness of the surrounding architecture. Eschewing conventional responses to shoppin

Heatherwick Studio   United Kingdom   The project will see the 130-year-old exhibition center, built as the National Agricultural Hall and set over a 14-and-a-half-acre site in Kensington, London, transformed into a world-leading arts, entertainment, exhibition, and experiential district