Crafting in human experiential terms

THOMAS Heatherwick became famous almost overnight with his design for the UK Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo 2010. The awe-inspiring design beat close to 200 other national pavilions to clinch the "Best In Expo" prize, including one by Pritzker Prize winning architect Norman Foster whose firm Foster + Partners designed the UAE Pavilion.

Today, having completed his first major piece of architecture with the Learning Hub at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), and in the midst of designing the master plan for Google's new headquarters (with Bjarke Ingels Group) on a vast 300,000 square me…