Spotlight: Thomas Heatherwick

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Thomas Heatherwick is known for his innovative engineering and use of materials. The popularity of Heatherwick's designs shows us his drive to make his work comprehensible to people who don't know the first thing about design. His work sometimes get this London-based designer mislabeled as a sculptor or artist.

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The Bleigiessen

The perfect example of how powerfully Heatherwick's designs affect people would be "The Bleigiessen" in central London. Th seven-story sculpture is made up of more than a hundred and forty-two thousand glass spheres, in a pattern outlining the shape of molten lead dropped in water. The Wellcome Trust, a British medical foundation, got a taste of the Heatherwick effect three years ago, after it commissioned him to do The Bleigiessen for their atrium. The foundation is closed to the public, but demand to see the sculpture has been so intense that it now opens its doors once a month to show off Heatherwick's work.

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Heatherwick founded the Thomas Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice.
The studio's work spans commercial and residential building projects, master-planning and infrastructure schemes, as well as high profile works of public art.

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