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One great building does not make a great city.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Building
#City
#Great City
#Great
#Make
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Architecture
#Culture
#Energy
#World
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Architecture
#Every
#Invention
#Project
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Father
#Imagination
#Me
#Real
#World
When I heard of the 'garden bridge' idea, it seemed so clear and powerful, the notion of using nature to scale down an enormous piece of potentially wind-swept exposed link. That's what struck me - not treating the bridge just as a link, but as a place.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Bridge
#Down
#Me
#Nature
#Place
It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Building
#Everything
#Important
#People
It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Building
#Frame
#Know
#Me
#Project
I used to say I'm not a business. I'm not! But I've had to come round to it, to acknowledge that you had to be an organisation and had to have a business dimension in order to do your passion.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Business
#Order
#Passion
#Round
#Say
I thought I wanted to be an inventor but then discovered you couldn't study inventing!
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Inventor
#Study
#Then
#Thought
#Wanted
Ambition is a form of creativity.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Ambition
#Creativity
#Form
Our job is to get people in, create the spaces, and then get out of the way.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Create
#Get
#Job
#People
#Way
To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Architecture
#Challenge
#Real
#Value
The world of contemporary art has, in a way, exponentially expanded in the last couple of decades, and almost every major city in Europe and Asia and North America has fallen over themselves to have their own contemporary art museum.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#America
#Art
#City
#Way
#World
I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Change
#Human Nature
#Human
#Nature
My studio's passion is improving the public experience of cities for everyone.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Everyone
#Experience
#Passion
#Studio
The Learning Hub is a collection of handmade concrete towers surrounding a central space that brings everyone together, interspersed with nooks, balconies and gardens for informal collaborative learning.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Handmade
#Learning
#Space
#Together
I'm not really interested in creating things to be seen inside a private gallery. I'm interested in creating things that are all around us, that engage us. I just find the things that I respond to are useful.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Creating
#Find
#Gallery
#Respond
#Us
I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Art
#Feel
#Interesting
#People
#Trying
You can make people feel valued or cared for by design alone. It's not purely about money. It's about how we choose to value human experience.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Alone
#Design
#Experience
#Money
#Value
Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.
- Thomas Heatherwick
#Design
#Important
#Moment
#Most
#Process
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