Bringing together architecture, art and design, Thomas Heatherwick Studio is distinguished by a passion for form, materials and processes. Founded in 1994, the studio is made up of practitioners of diverse disciplines. The team operates from a studio and workshop in London where design development, prototyping and fabrication take place under a single roof. The studio’s projects embrace architecture, planning, infrastructure, urban design, sculpture and exhibition design. Clients include Sir Terence Conran, the Japanese Buddhist Shingon-Shu sect, English Heritage, the Arts Council of England, local government, property developers and the V&A and Science Museums.

‘I'm a three-dimensional designer. I can't describe myself more specifically than that. I'm very interested in how you create better environments for people to be in and more interesting functional spaces & places. I’ve always been interested in ideas. I was always fascinated by inventors and invention, and I think that is something that is very under-appreciated. You don't do 'invention' - that's not a topic covered in the education system - and I found that ‘invention’ was actually subjects like design, art or architecture; all separate things. So I've tried to follow a line that's in the middle of it all.

The ethos of the Studio is the desire to keep testing and experimenting with different genres, not to sit back and repeat past successes.’