Thomas Heatherwick

The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies…

— Thomas Heatherwick

My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.

— Thomas Heatherwick

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched…

— Thomas Heatherwick

You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose…

— Thomas Heatherwick

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

— Thomas Heatherwick

I don't enjoy the sound of my voice in front of other people.

— Thomas Heatherwick

At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas – what ideas are for, what jobs they do.

— Thomas Heatherwick

Our job is to get people in, create the spaces, and then get out of the way.

— Thomas Heatherwick

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the…

— Thomas Heatherwick

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…

— Thomas Heatherwick

I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt…

— Thomas Heatherwick

I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!

— Thomas Heatherwick

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing…

— Thomas Heatherwick

The studio does projects all over the world, and in each place, we focus on trying to make a project specific to…

— Thomas Heatherwick