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Heatherwick bags prized Olympia revamp job
Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC Architects are to draw up plans for a revamp of the Olympia exhibition centre in west London
Heatherwick Studio
News about Heatherwick Studio, founded by designer Thomas Heatherwick, and coverage of the practice’s recently completed buildings
Plug pulled on Heatherwick Studio’s New York pier
Another of Thomas Heatherwick’s river-based leisure projects has been scrapped, less than two months after London’s Garden Bridge was abandoned
First look: Heatherwick creates Cape Town art museum in former grain silo
Heatherwick Studio’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), a retrofit of an old grain silo on Cape Town’s waterfront, has been unveiled today
Councillors demand parliamentary inquiry into Garden Bridge fiasco
Two Lambeth councillors have formally requested a parliamentary inquiry into the Garden Bridge debacle, while a local MP has suggested the bridge’s trustees should be barred from acting as trustees for other charities
What is the legacy of the Garden Bridge?
The £200 million plan has fallen through, leaving taxpayers with a £50 million bill. What can be learnt from its bitterly contested collapse?
Council gives go-ahead for Heatherwick and BIG’s £600m Google HQ at King’s Cross
Camden Council has backed plans for a 300m-long headquarters for internet giant Google at King’s Cross designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio
First look at Heatherwick’s under-construction Shanghai ‘tree mountain’
New photographs and drone footage have been released of an almost-built 300,000m² tree-covered development near Shanghai’s art district designed by Heatherwick Studio
Heatherwick and BIG’s £600m Google HQ at King’s Cross set for approval
Camden Council is set to back plans for a 300m-long headquarters for internet giant Google at King’s Cross designed by BIG and Heatherwick Studio
Under construction: first peek at Heatherwick’s King’s Cross shopping scheme
New photographs have been released of Heatherwick Studios’ conversion of two Grade II-listed coal drop buildings at King’s Cross, a scheme which is currently under construction
Tories demand probe into Hodge’s Garden Bridge inquiry
A Conservative member of the London Assembly has attacked Margaret Hodge’s report on the Garden Bridge, claiming she broke Parliamentary rules during her research and was paid, despite the GLA saying she would work pro bono