The innovation unit of 3XN Architects rises to the challenge of turning a historic warehouse in Denmark into a state-of-the-art test kitchen for a culinary superstar.
Thomas Heatherwick’s unconventional approach flouts design orthodoxy. A visit to Thomas Heatherwick’s London studio is like stepping into a Renaissance cabinet of curiosities—one of those idiosyncratic efforts to capture the wondrous variety of the natural and man-made worlds. Strange objects crowd the shelves and floor, indeterminate forms that might be product prototypes, scale models, or sculpture, hinting at the fertile imagination of a designer who transcends any narrow job description. For a New York City Longchamp store, Heatherwick created a series of curving, thermoplastic balustrades. Heatherwick set up his studio in 1994 fresh out of college, and he employs 80
