Thomas Heatherwick is a UK-based designer. He founded his studio, Heatherwick Studio, in 1994 to bring together architecture, urban planning, product design and interiors into a single creative workspace. Working across multiple scales, locations and typologies, Heatherwick Studio has developed into a team of 200 makers and inventors with no signature style.
With bases in London and Shanghai, the studio team is currently working on over 30 projects in ten countries, including Azabudai Hills, a six-hectare mixed-use development in the centre of Tokyo, the new headquarters for Google in Silicon Valley and London (in collaboration with Bjarke Ingels Group) and Airo, an electric car. The studio has also recently completed Little Island, a park and performance space on theHudson River in New York; the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town; and Coal Drops Yard, a major new retail district in King’s Cross, London. Heatherwick’s forthcoming book, Humanise, will be published by Penguin in October 2023.