Thomas Heatherwick
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Oct 29, 2026
Luke BlighHOST
Right.
Luke BlighHOST
Like Thomas Heatherwick today, you know?
Fred MillsHOST
Wow.
Luke BlighHOST
I did think, who's the closest dude doing stuff that you don't expect? Oh, I'm not sure you
Paul FlowersHOST
incredible.
Paul FlowersHOST
I think he worked with Thomas Heatherwick, lots of people, but Thomas Heatherwick, who's a great, great designer and architect, he did some work with John on that as well.
Paul FlowersHOST
And it's an amazing space.
Paul FlowersHOST
So next time you're in London, I'd love to show you around that.
Witold RybczynskiGUEST
I mean, some people look back and they, they say, "Oh, that Gaudí, he really had something and that we could learn something from him." Nobody has said that up to now.
Witold RybczynskiGUEST
I-- Except I just read this book somebody gave me by Thomas Heatherwick, who really starts with Gaudí and how do you make architecture that are not boring.
Witold RybczynskiGUEST
And he looks at Gaudí and says, "Look, he did it, and we can..." So it could be that.
Witold RybczynskiGUEST
It could-- It doesn't have to be a present day.
Luke JonesHOST
I don't know.
Luke JonesHOST
Rather, rather like with, um, Thomas Heatherwick's recent, um, recent built book, you know.
Luke JonesHOST
If Gaudí is your example of, of the direction architecture needs to go in, it's a bit of a problem because he's-
George GingellHOST
As long as you have no material limits-
Chris MasonHOST
Yeah.
Adam FlemingHOST
And it's a very, very funky area, and, um, yeah, the Thomas Heatherwick designed shopping center.
Chris MasonHOST
And as Keir Starmer would often reflect, you know, a, a constituency of wild contrasts.
Adam FlemingHOST
Mm.
Emma NelsonHOST
But let's talk about bad design, 'cause there's an awful lot of bad design everywhere.
Emma NelsonHOST
And we have, uh, we have the amazing British designer Thomas Heatherwick, who's been talking about the, um, the importance of a varied architectural diet.
Emma NelsonHOST
I mean, we'll hear from him in just a moment.
Emma NelsonHOST
But the idea-
Emma NelsonHOST
It literally is.
Emma NelsonHOST
So, right.
Emma NelsonHOST
So our, our, our editor in chief, um, Andrew Tuck, has done an interview with Thomas Heatherwick, um, and he's written an article about it for the latest, um, magazine, uh, for, for the latest edition of Monocle Magazine.
Emma NelsonHOST
Um, let's have a listen to Mr. Heatherwick, 'cause he's not without his, you know, his, his controversies.
Will ArnoldGUEST
So taking a more efficient approach to the way we, we construct our buildings and creating the, the value and so on in other ways has to be a really core part of this.
Will ArnoldGUEST
If you-- uh, there's a really great book by Thomas Heatherwick called Humanize, and in that book he talks about how buildings are-- They need to be considered from three different distances.
Will ArnoldGUEST
And I'm gonna get this slightly wrong, but I think it's something like three meters away, 30 meters away, and 300 meters away.
Will ArnoldGUEST
And he, and he argues that from each of these sorts of distances, far, medium, and near, the building has to be, you know, considered in terms of its surrounding and what you look at and what creates interest and so on.
Justin RiversHOST
And again, when I was doing these tours over the summer, everybody's asking about Little Island, Little Island.
Justin RiversHOST
What, you know, what's the story behind it? So I did some research as to how are we going to consider this art? So Little Island is done by Thomas Heatherwick, who is the same British architect and artist who designed the vessel in Hudson Yards.
Justin RiversHOST
And so the vessel is a very controversial piece.
Justin RiversHOST
for many reasons that we don't have to go into here.