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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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• ‟ I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style that lands in a place is almost stronger than the place. For me it's about inventing a solution for each place; if people then want to know who did it, then great.

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• ‟ For me, every one of our projects is a research-and-development project.

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• ‟ I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ When I was little, I just was very tuned in to the functionality and aesthetics of things around me.

  - Thomas Heatherwick