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The plans celebrate the building’s industrial history
Zeitz MOCAA Cape Town, South Africa Opening: 2016
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) marks the architect's biggest museum project to date. Heatherwick is transforming the Cape Town grain silo into leisure space spilt across nine floors. Plans include keeping the character of the building to “enjoy its tube-iness.” The studio is carving out galleries from the shell of the silo, allowing movement, space and light, while keeping the structure – and its 42 tubes – relatively intact. The outside of the silo will see the most visible changes. Glass panels are being inserted into the exterior of the upper floors and the site will be lit up at night. Built in 1921, the 57m (187ft) silo is a major feature of the skyline.
The 20m-high shaded garden will be open to all
Al Fayah Park Abu Dhabi, UAE Opening: 2017
Heatherwick Studio has designed a 125,000sqm (410,105sq ft) desert oasis, a major piece of public land that will become the Al Fayah Park in Abu Dhabi. The park will offer a variety of open spaces with exercise paths and picnic areas. There will be organic fruit and vegetable gardens, which will be used to supply the various restaurants and cafés in the park. Heatherwick designed the park to protect the plants and foliage from the powerful desert heat. Abu Dhabi’s rapid rate of expansion and transformation has led to a desire to provide a public space devoted to the wellbeing of the people in the city. The Salama Bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation is the developer behind the scheme.
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The pier will house a 2.7 acre park
Pier 55 New York, US Opening: 2018/2019
Heatherwick Studio and landscape architecture firm Mathews Nielsen have been chosen to design Pier 55, a US$170m (E136m, £109m) floating park on the Hudson River. Pier 55 will be situated 186ft (57m) away from the bank of the Hudson River and accessible via an undulating platform. More like an island, the pier will be a fully-fledged 1.1-hectare (2.7 acres) park, with three performance venues, a 700-seat amphitheatre and wooded outdoor spaces. The structure will replace Manhattan's ageing Pier 54 and will be mostly funded by the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation, with help from the Hudson River Trust and the city. Planning for this bold addition to the Manhattan waterfront could be approved this year, with construction starting by 2016. l
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