Mr. Heatherwick designed Seed Cathedral, Britain’s pavilion at the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. Credit Reuters

 “Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio” at the third-floor gallery of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum presents models and photographs of most popular projects of British designer-Thomas Heatherwick. The exhibition includes some speculative projects of Heatherwick: the Learning Hub at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, the 2014 Bombay Sapphire Distillery in Laverstoke, England, the 2012 redesign of London’s double-decker buses, known as the New Routemaster, the cauldron for the London 2012 Olympic Games torch, architectural models and large-scale renderings for Pier55, a public park and performance space to be constructed in the Hudson River on Manhattan’s West Side. “I was always interested in ideas and innovations,” said Mr. Heatherwick and New York Times reviewed the architecture of Heatherwick by focusing on this new exhibition. Heatherwick's exhibition can be visited until January 3, 2016 at Cooper Hewitt.

A tiny canal bridge in London doesn’t just open for boat traffic, it curls up like a caterpillar. A suave redesign of London’s familiar double-decker bus invites passengers to the upper deck with a curving ribbon window that follows a winding staircase. An exposition building in Shanghai is covered in what look like porcupine quills. A pier in the Hudson is reimagined as a miniature island park with an amphitheater nestled within Lilliputian hills. All are the work of Thomas Heatherwick, a polymath British designer of sculpture, furniture and architecture who leaps boundaries few artists and designers dare to cross......Continue Reading

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