“It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and ...” — Thomas Heatherwick Quote

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.”

“There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.”

“My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.”