Heatherwick Studio: The Latest Architecture and News
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https://www.archdaily.com/502698/video-i-like-transparentBecky Quintal
Heatherwick to Transform Cape Town's Grain Silo into Contemporary Art Museum
Imagine forty-two, 33 meter high concrete tubes each with a diameter of 5.5 meters, with no open space to experience the volume from within. The brief from the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) for London-based Heatherwick Studio was to "reimagine the Grain Silo Complex at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront with an architectural intervention inspired by its own historic character," calling for a "solution unique for Africa" in order to create "the highest possible quality of exhibition space for the work displayed inside." Heatherwick's response will be the creation of a "a new kind of museum in an African context."
https://www.archdaily.com/486742/heatherwick-to-reimagine-cape-town-s-grain-silo-complex-for-the-zeitz-museum-of-contemporary-artJames Taylor-Foster
Heatherwick Tapped to Design $75 Million Icon for NYC
Related Companies founder Stephen Ross has commissioned London designer and architect Thomas Heatherwick to design what could be, according to the Wall Street Journal, “one of the most expensive works of public art in the world.” Planned to be the centerpiece of Related’s Hudson Yards project in Manhattan’s West Side, the estimated $75 million artwork and its surrounding 4-acre public space aims to become “new icon for the city.”
https://www.archdaily.com/444019/heatherwick-tapped-to-design-75-million-icon-for-nycKarissa Rosenfield
Designing the Extraordinary / Heatherwick Studio
Today we had the chance of attending the opening of this impressive exhibition. As we mentioned previously some weeks ago, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London prepared this event focused on the work of the British firm Heatherwick Studio, responsable for the last Shanghai 2010 British Pavilion, as well as the Rolling Bridge, or the New Bus for London that was just released in the 38 route. The exhibition comprises a large range of different scales of design, going from specific objects or furniture, to large infrastructural and urban projects. It will be open for the public from next Thursday 31st.
https://www.archdaily.com/239087/designing-the-extraordinary-heatherwick-studioDaniel Portilla
Thomas Heatherwick's Thoughts on the Building Boom in China and More
Designer of UK Pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo, Thomas Heatherwick was one of the speakers featured at the recent 2011 TED conference. Heatherwick and his design team won the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) commission to create the Pavilion following a competition that attracted a shortlist of ambitious architectural proposals. Exploring the relationship between nature and cities Heatherwick Studio sought an approach that would engage meaningfully with Shanghai Expo’s theme, Better City, Better Life, and stand out from the anticipated trend for technology driven pavilions, filled with audio-visual content on screens, projections and speakers.
The Huffington Post sat down with Thomas Heatherwick following his TED talk. Discussing China’s building boom and his creative process the full interview is featured following the break.
https://www.archdaily.com/120732/thomas-heatherwicks-thoughts-on-the-building-boom-in-china-and-moreKelly Minner