The Learning Hub for Nanyang Technological University in Singapore opened early in 2015. Since Thomas Heatherwick conceived his puffy UK pavilion (known as the Seed Cathedral) for the Shanghai World Expo in 2010, his London-based firm, Heatherwick Studio, has been on a roll. Its design for a park on Pier 55 on the Hudson River in New York (funded mostly by Barry Diller, the head of IAC/InterActiveCorp) has attracted attention–and stirred controversy. Up the river, at the mixed-use Hudson Yards project, Related Properties plans to enliven the public space with a 'monumental sculpture' by Heatherwick (details to come). Recently, Heatherwick and the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels of BIG have teamed up to design Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California. Heatherwick is also working with Foster + Partners on the Bund Finance Centre in Shanghai, currently under construction.
And, now until January 3, the retrospective exhibition Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio is on view at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Curated by Brooke Hodge, the show was organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas in 2014, then moved to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles before arriving in New York. Heatherwick spoke to RECORD just before the exhibition opened on June 24.
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