Thomas Heatherwick

High-profile British firm Heatherwick Studio recently completed work on an impressive kinetic greenhouse. Named Glasshouse, the project resembles an oversized jewel when closed, and opens up into an eye-catching crown-like form.

High-profile British firm Heatherwick Studio has created a large tree-covered sculpture for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebration. The art installation hosts a total of 350 trees, which are arranged into the shape of a single large tree.

Google's new Silicon Valley HQ is designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio, with input from Google's own designers. The eye-catching building has impressive sustainable design features, including a "dragonscale" roof with integrated solar panels.

Heatherwick Studio has designed a remarkable new performing arts center in China. The eye-catching building will rise out of the wetlands landscape like a colorful cluster of volcanoes and will host an opera house, a concert hall, and a theater.

Heatherwick Studio has revealed ambitious plans to transform a part-demolished inner-city shopping center into a new greenery filled mixed-use space as part of a wider redevelopment of England's Nottingham city center.

High-profile British firm Heatherwick Studio has unveiled plans for a new park on a river in South Korea. Named The Leaf, it will consist of a greenery-filled space with multiple pathways, water features, performance spaces, and more.

If there's one defining feature of Heatherwick Studios' recent output, it's the firm's enthusiastic use of greenery. This trend continues with its recently opened 1000 Trees, which is a Shanghai shopping mall envisioned as a tree-covered mountain.

Heatherwick Studio continues its run of greenery filled buildings with Castellana 69, which is conceived as an office with a "green heart" and will boast sustainable design, including solar panels which will produce more electricity than it needs.

Heatherwick Studio's highly anticipated Little Island has finally opened in the Big Apple. The project is an interesting blend of a pier and public park that's raised above the Hudson River on concrete piles.

Despite the challenges and delays caused by COVID-19, 2021 looks set to be an outstanding year for architecture. With this in mind, we've chosen five exciting projects we're looking forward to this year.

UK firm Heatherwick Studio's North American invasion continues with a pair of high-rise towers slated for Canada. Defined by an eye-catching tapering design, the high-rise buildings would make significant use of wood and incorporate lots of greenery.

Heatherwick Studio already has one water-based park underway in New York City and now plans another that's even larger and more ambitious in San Francisco. The Cove would replace a ruined pier and car park with an attractive public park on the waves.