Thomas Heatherwick has defended the Hudson Yards development in New York City, saying people "shouldn't underestimate what it takes" to build public spaces with private money.

Heatherwick has another New York project in the works: Pier 55, a park and theatre on pilings in the Hudson River, now under construction less than a mile from Hudson Yards.

The first thing to say about the 150-foot-tall centerpiece Thomas Heatherwick has designed for the enormous Hudson Yards project on the far West Side of Manhattan—which was the closest-kept ...

Visitors can now scale British designer Thomas Heatherwick's giant honeycomb-like sculpture at New York's Hudson Yards, which has opened along with the other public spaces at the vast West Side ...

When Thomas Heatherwick—the nimble London-based designer known for work that defies easy categorization—unveiled his design for a new public landmark called Vessel at Hudson Yards to a crowd ...

On the ground, NBW collaborated with Heatherwick to create the Public Square and Gardens at Hudson Yards, a six-acre public space that links Hudson Yards with Hudson River Park and the High Line ...

The Thomas Heatherwick-designed art installation that will center the public square at Manhattan’s Hudson Yards megadevelopment project has made quite a bit of headway since we last checked in ...

On a sunny mid-March afternoon, I strolled along the High Line from an appointment in the West 20s to Hudson Yards.I was eager to plunge into this new part of the city, to be a tourist in my own ...

Architecture critics haven’t taken much of a shine to the artistic showpiece of Hudson Yards, the 15-story climbable sculpture called “The Vessel.” The New York Times’ Michael Kimmelman ...

The highlight of the new Hudson Yards, which officially opened today with much fanfare, is certainly the Vessel, the climbable staircase sculpture by British architect Thomas Heatherwick and ...

Related (the developers of Hudson Yards) and Heatherwick Studios want the Vessel to be a gathering place for tourists, yes, but more important, New Yorkers.

A blue-glass megadevelopment with a supersized shopping mall and trash-basket-shaped tourist attraction called the Vessel, by Mr. Heatherwick, Hudson Yards rose from a massive deck that Related ...