About Heatherwick Studio

Heatherwick Studio is a team of over 200 problem solvers dedicated to making the physical world around us better for everyone. Based out of our combined workshop and design studio in Central London, we create buildings, spaces, master-plans, objects and infrastructure. Focusing on large scale projects in cities all over the world, we prioritise those with the greatest positive social impact. Working as practical inventors with no signature style, our motivation is to design soulful and interesting places which embrace and celebrate the complexities of the real world. The approach driving everything is to lead from human experience rather than any fixed design dogma. The studio’s founder Thomas Heatherwick comes from a background immersed in materials and making. His curiosity and passion for problem-solving matured into the studio’s current design process where every architect, designer, landscape architect and maker is encouraged to challenge and contribute ideas. Positive and pragmatic, the studio’s team are collaborators whose role is to listen, question, then lead the conception and construction of special and unusual places. Ingenuity and inspiration are used to make projects that are affordable, buildable and sustainable. And our client is vital, who comes on the journey and challenges our thinking; together we look for the opportunities that might traditionally be overlooked. Our best future projects are the ones that will teach us the most. Heatherwick Studio has won more than 100 international awards for design excellence, including the Prix Versailles and the RIBA National Awards. Some of the most recent include: Prix Versailles 2019  – Coal Drops Yard, London Civic Trust Award 2019  – Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town RIBA National Award 2019  – Coal Drops Yard, London World Architecture Festival 2019  – Coal Drops Yard, London; and Vessel, New York City CTBUH Award 2020   Best Tall Building 100m-199m  – Eden, Singapore Stephen R. Kellert Biophilic Design Award 2021  – Maggie’s Centre, Leeds 2021 SARA NY Award for Innovation in Civic Work  – Little Island, New York City Civic Trust Award 2021  – Maggie’s Centre, Leeds