Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick founded Thomas Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice. The studio has grown exponentially since opening, with a large team including architects, landscape architects, product designers and engineers. Work is carried out from a combined studio and workshop where concept development, prototyping and fabrication take place under a single roof. The studio’s work spans from commercial and residential building projects to master–planning and infrastructure schemes as well as high profile works of public art.
In 2004 Heatherwick won the Prince Philip Designers Prize, the youngest practitioner to be appointed a Royal Designer for Industry. During the 2010 London Design Festival, Heatherwick was awarded the London Design medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to design. In 2012, the work of Heatherwick Studio was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Heatherwick is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art and a Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also the recipient of honorary doctorates from four British Universities.
Heatherwick was commissioned to design the London 2012 Olympic …
Thomas Heatherwick founded Thomas Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice. The studio has grown exponentially since opening, with a large team including architects, landscape architects, product designers and engineers. Work is carried out from a combined studio and workshop where concept development, prototyping and fabrication take place under a single roof. The studio’s work spans from commercial and residential building projects to master–planning and infrastructure schemes as well as high profile works of public art.
In 2004 Heatherwick won the Prince Philip Designers Prize, the youngest practitioner to be appointed a Royal Designer for Industry. During the 2010 London Design Festival, Heatherwick was awarded the London Design medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to design. In 2012, the work of Heatherwick Studio was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Heatherwick is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art and a Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He is also the recipient of honorary doctorates from four British Universities.
Heatherwick was commissioned to design the London 2012 Olympic Torch and Cauldron. The Cauldron design featured the coming together of individual torches like petals to mark the opening of the Olympic ceremony in July 2012.
Courtesy of CASS Sculpture Foundation