![]() Heatherwick's design for B of the Bang, a £1.42 million 56m-high sculpture of 180 giant steel spikes, was unveiled outside the City of Manchester Stadium in 2005. The Rolling Bridge won the 2005 British Constructional Steelwork Association's Structural Steel Award. In 2002, as part of a redevelopment of Paddington Basin, Heatherwick Studio designed The Rolling Bridge, a canal bridge that opens by curling into a circle rather than rising in one or more rigid sections. ![]() Selected works Rolling Bridge Video of the Rolling Bridge in operation He has served on numerous judging and advisory panels and has given talks at institutions including the RIBA, Bartlett School of Architecture, the South Africa Design Indaba conference, the Royal Academy and TED2011. He is a Senior Fellow and external examiner at the Royal College of Art, a Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum a fellow of the Royal Academy, and a Royal Designer for Industry. Conran asked Heatherwick to make an interior display for the Conran Shop, which led to his first public commission after Mary Portas saw it and commissioned Heatherwick to make a window display for the 1997 London Fashion Week at the Harvey Nichols department store. ![]() Heatherwick founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 after his graduation from the RCA. In his final year at RCA in 1994, Heatherwick met designer Terence Conran after seeing Heatherwick's plan for a gazebo made of two curved stacks of birch plywood, Conran invited him to construct it at his country home, and bought it. He studied three-dimensional design at Manchester Polytechnic and furniture design at the Royal College of Art (RCA). After primary school in Wood Green, he attended the Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley, in Hertfordshire, which emphasises gardening, handcrafts, and the performance art of eurythmy, and Sevenoaks School in Kent. His maternal great-grandfather was the owner of Jaeger, the London fashion firm, one of his grandmothers founded the textile studio at Marks & Spencer and was subsequently an art therapist, and his uncle was the journalist Nicholas Tomalin. His mother designed jewellery his father was a musician, ran a charity and later worked for Heatherwick's design firm. Life and career Bleigiessen, Wellcome Trust, London The Garden Bridge over the Thames in Central London was cancelled. ![]() Heatherwick's projects, many of which have won design awards, include the UK pavilion at Expo 2010, the renovation of the Hong Kong Pacific Place, the Olympic cauldron for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, Vessel in New York City, and the New Routemaster bus. He works with a team of more than 200 architects, designers and artisans from a studio and workshop in King's Cross, London. Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE RA RDI HonFREng (born 17 February 1970) is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. ![]()
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