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RENOWNED British designer Thomas Heatherwick, whose work ranges from his beautiful London 2012 Olympic cauldron to the iconic UK Pavilion at the 2010 World Expo Shanghai — taking in his update on the iconic red London bus along the way — is the subject of a city exhibition.
“Inside Heatherwick Studio,” currently running at The Power Station of Art, showcases the work of a designer widely considered among Britain’s most innovative.
The touring exhibition organized by the British Council, curated by Kate Goodwin and designed by Heatherwick Studio, aims to offer unique insights into the ideas and experiments that go into realizing projects that span architecture, engineering, furniture, sculpture and product design.
It features drawings, models, films and test pieces generated by speculative and built projects from the past 20 years.
Established by Thomas Heatherwick in 1994, the London-based Heatherwick Studio has a 170-strong team.
Heatherwick says his studio aims to finding innovative design solutions, with a dedication to artistic thinking and the latent potential of materials and craftsmanship in the fields of architecture, urban infrastructure, design and strategic thinking.
Outstanding contribution
Heatherwick is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was awarded the Prince Philip Designers Prize in 2006 and the London Design Medal in recognition of his outstanding contribution to design in 2010.
Exhibition highlights include process models and full-size construction pieces from Heatherwick Studio’s Learning Hub. This is his project for Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
The form and structure of the hub aim to generate a new learning environment with oval classrooms bringing students and teachers together.
Twelve stacks of classrooms, interspersed with gardens, rise around a naturally ventilated central atrium.
Also on display is a model of the UK’s Pavilion for the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai — a cube made up of 60,000 7.5 meter acrylic rods.
Some 250,000 seeds from Britain’s Millennium Seed Bank were placed in the end of the rods, creating a magical “seed cathedral” inside.
At the close of the Expo, these were distributed across the world.
Another highlight is a model and film of the London 2012 Olympic cauldron.
The cauldron features 204 copper pieces, one for each of the participating countries, carried in to the stadium by the teams during the opening ceremony.
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