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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

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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.

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I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

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I try to be a positive person, but I'm also always looking and wondering, 'Maybe this could be done differently.' As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you're halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you're already halfway through a solution.

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An interest in ideas is a sign of human life. People are fascinated by what the future is going to be - and the future is going to be an accumulation of ideas.

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I am finally getting the chance to build large structures and break preconceptions that my designs are just sculptures for people to be in. But my work always comes down to the human scale.

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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.

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Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

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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.

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The Garden Bridge has not found its right moment, but I hope one day it will and that London continues to be open to ideas that make life here better.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Designer

Born: February 17th, 1970

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