Thomas Heatherwick is an English designer born in February 1970. He studied three-dimensional design at Manchester polytechnic and the Royal college of Art, and since has founded a Thomas Heatherwick studio and became an external examiner at the Royal college of Art. His main focuses have been in architecture and his design of modern sculptures, his most know recent work being the 2012 olympic games cauldron, featured above. The cauldron has 204 petals individual connected to symbolise the nations in the olympic games. The petals raise up when lit to signify the unity and togetherness of the nations coming together in collected peace for the games. The torch could also be considered a great sight and a great collective power of the individual petals and individual countries small light together creating a flame of infinite power.
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