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Designer
Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick is the founder and design director of Heatherwick Studio. According to the studio, he comes from a background immersed in materials and making, and his curiosity and passion for problem-solving matured into the studio's…
Biography
Background
Thomas Heatherwick is the founder and design director of Heatherwick Studio. According to the studio, he comes from a background immersed in materials and making, and his curiosity and passion for problem-solving matured into the studio's current design process. Magis states that he founded the studio in 1994 to bring architecture, urban planning, product design and interiors into a single creative workspace.
Signature Style
Magis describes the studio as a team with no signature style, led by human experience rather than any fixed dogma. The studio calls itself practical inventors and makers who test ideas in its own workshop.
Notable Works
- Spun for Magis, begun in 2007 as an exploration of metal spinning; the Magis version is rotation-moulded polypropylene
- Little Island, a park and performance space on the Hudson River in New York
- Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town
- Coal Drops Yard, a retail district in King's Cross, London
- Bay View, Google's first ground-up campus
- Azabudai Hills, Tokyo
Legacy
Heatherwick Studio has won more than 100 international awards, including the Prix Versailles and the RIBA National Awards. His book Humanise was published by Penguin in October 2023.
