Heatherwick Studio

CTBUH Silver Member

Overview
Buildings
Initiatives

About

Member Since: 2020

Member Offices: London

Heatherwick Studio is a team of over 200 problem solvers dedicated to making the physical world around us better for everyone. Based out of our combined workshop and design studio in Central London, we create buildings, spaces, master-plans, objects and infrastructure. Focusing on large scale projects in cities all over the world, we prioritize those with the greatest positive social impact. Working as practical inventors with no signature style, our motivation is to design soulful and interesting places which embrace and celebrate the complexities of the real world. The approach driving everything is to lead from human experience rather than any fixed design dogma. The studio’s founder Thomas Heatherwick comes from a background immersed in materials and making. His curiosity and passion for problem-solving matured into the studio’s current design process where every architect, designer, landscape architect and maker is encouraged to challenge and contribute ideas. Positive and pragmatic, the studio’s team are collaborators whose role is to listen, question, then lead the conception and construction of special and unusual places. Ingenuity and inspiration are used to make projects that are affordable, buildable and sustainable. And our client is vital, who comes on the journey and challenges our thinking; together we look for the opportunities that might traditionally be overlooked. Our best future projects are the ones that will teach us the most.

Fields of Expertise

Architecture

Buildings

Please note that all heights shown in italics/red are estimated heights. These have been calculated based on known floor counts for the building, then extrapolated through analyzing typically hundreds of buildings of the same function on this database that do have confirmed heights. The user should be aware that non-standard building features, such as significant spires or raised entrances / podiums, may affect the accuracy of these estimations.

Rank	Name	Height
1	Toranomon-Azabudai District Main Tower	325.2 m / 1,067 ft
2	Toranomon-Azabudai District West Tower	262.8 m / 862 ft
3	Toranomon-Azabudai District East Tower	237.2 m / 778 ft
4	The Bund Finance Center North	180 m / 591 ft
5	The Bund Finance Center South	180 m / 591 ft
6	1700 Alberni Street West Tower	121.1 m / 397 ft
7	EDEN	104.5 m / 343 ft
8	1000 Trees Phase 2	100 m / 328 ft
9	1700 Alberni Street East Tower	95.3 m / 313 ft
10	Lantern House West Building	86.6 m / 284 ft

Awards

Award of Excellence: EDEN

Best Tall Building 100-199 meters 2021

Ctbuh Leaders

Sofia Papageorgiou

CTBUH United Kingdom Chapter, 2023 – Present

London

Rank	Name	City	Completion	Height
1	Toranomon-Azabudai District Main Tower	Tokyo	2023	325 m / 1,067 ft
2	Toranomon-Azabudai District West Tower	Tokyo	2023	263 m / 862 ft
3	Toranomon-Azabudai District East Tower	Tokyo	2023	237 m / 778 ft
4	The Bund Finance Center North	Shanghai	2016	180 m / 591 ft
4	The Bund Finance Center South	Shanghai	2016	180 m / 591 ft
6	1700 Alberni Street West Tower	Vancouver	-	121 m / 397 ft
7	EDEN	Singapore	2019	105 m / 343 ft
8	1000 Trees Phase 2	Shanghai	2023	100 m / 328 ft
9	1700 Alberni Street East Tower	Vancouver	-	95 m / 313 ft
10	Lantern House West Building	New York City	2021	87 m / 284 ft
11	1000 Trees Phase 1	Shanghai	2021	60 m / 197 ft
12	Zeitz MOCAA	Cape Town	2017	58 m / 190 ft
13	Vessel	New York City	2019	46 m / 150 ft
14	Lantern House East Building	New York City	2021	34 m / 112 ft
15	Olympia Centre Tower	London	-	- m / - ft

CTBUH Initiatives Involving Heatherwick Studio

Shanghai Expo and Meetings Report

08 May 2010

Executive Director Antony Wood visited China to attend and speak at the Shanghai Expo. While in China, the foundation was set for the CTBUH 9th World Congress.