Tag: Thomas Heatherwick

Biosphere – The Shed at Hudson Yards opens

Pioneering and Olympian, a $475m arts centre anchoring the south end of a shiny new enclave on Manhattan’s Lower West Side hopes to reach a broader community with immersive, intuitive and groundbreaking programming. Can emerging art thrive in such weighted…
Thomas Heatherwick: ‘Art is like a hovering cloud of energy and attention that can find itself almost anywhere’

The designer and founder of Heatherwick Studio talks about growing up with Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase outside the loo, sending handmade Christmas cards, and why he wants to apply a sense of specialness to unlikely places