Thomas Heatherwick, CBE

Designer

One of the UK’s most imaginative and versatile designers, Thomas Heatherwick was the man behind the spectacular flaming petal cauldron unveiled at the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics. He established Heatherwick Studio in 1994 and his now 180-strong team has undertaken numerous significant projects including London’s new Routemaster buses, ‘Seed Cathedral’, Britain’s pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, and a proposed garden bridge for London, an idea first conceived by Joanna Lumley. At the end of 2015 it was revealed that Heatherwick had also been commissioned to renovate the David Geffen Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center, and his plans for a ‘vessel’ on the Hudson remain shrouded in secrecy. Heatherwick studied design at Manchester Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art, and in 2004 he became the youngest person to be appointed a Royal Designer for Industry. 

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