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Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick
English Designer
Born: Feb 17, 1970
Building Me People Work World You
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To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. Thomas Heatherwick
Architecture Challenge Value Massive Make Real Any Real Value
I'm in love with cities. I find them amazing, the quiet co-ordination of thousands of people, going about what we're trying to do, and that organism of the city nurturing human aspiration, and the actual city fabric itself being a special thing rather than just infrastructure. Thomas Heatherwick
Love People Amazing Nurturing Cities City Find Thousands Thousands Of People Fabric About Rather Itself Than Quiet Trying Going Human Just Being Infrastructure Them Organism Aspiration Special Actual Thing
It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by. Thomas Heatherwick
Me You Building Frame Project Recognise See Architect Gives Know Up Going Who Creeps
An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas. Thomas Heatherwick
Life Future People Sign Ideas Accumulate Going Human Interest Human Life Fascinated
At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do. Thomas Heatherwick
Everything Jobs Ideas Root Fascination
I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale. Thomas Heatherwick
Work People Build Down Finally Scale Structures Always Am Getting Preconceptions Human Just Break Sculptures Large Designs Chance
One great building does not make a great city. Thomas Heatherwick
Great Building Great City City Make Does
When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That's what struck me - not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place. Thomas Heatherwick
Nature Me Garden Down Enormous Scale Seemed Struck Potentially Clear Idea Powerful Piece Heard Link Just Place Notion Exposed Using Bridge Treating
I've always been interested in projects that work at multiple levels. Thomas Heatherwick
Work Projects Always Been Interested Multiple Levels
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture. Thomas Heatherwick
Culture Architecture World Care Energy Enormous Almost Idea Cliched Been Historically Amount Things
I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways. Thomas Heatherwick
Nature Change Human Nature Think Ways Scared Sort Human Justifies
When you think about the worst places humans come into contact with, they are often our health environments. Thomas Heatherwick
Health You Think Our Worst About Contact Environments Come Often Places Humans
The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to that place. We take a different perspective everywhere we work - our passion is public projects, wherever they are. Thomas Heatherwick
Work World Passion Perspective Focus Our Project Projects Everywhere Take Studio Over Make Does Trying Different Wherever Place Public Different Perspective Each Specific
I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful. Thomas Heatherwick
Seen Respond Find Inside All-Around Around Private Just Interested Gallery Us Really Creating Engage Useful Things
I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion. Thomas Heatherwick
You Business Passion Say Dimension Had Come Order Acknowledge Organisation Your Used Round
Our job is to get people in, create the spaces, and then get out of the way. Thomas Heatherwick
People Job Our Way Out Get Spaces Then Create
Ambition is a form of creativity. Thomas Heatherwick
Creativity Ambition Form
For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project. Thomas Heatherwick
Me Every Our Project Projects
Everything that we start is something that we don't know what the outcome is going to be. Thomas Heatherwick
Everything Outcome Something Know Going Start

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