Thomas Heatherwick unveils plans for the first contemporary African art museum on the continent

In this animated talk about his 27 year old London studio, Thomas Heatherwick unveiled his plans for converting a massive grain silo on the Cape Town waterfront into the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz Mocca). Once the tallest building in South Africa (at 57m), the silo closed in 2001 and fell into dereliction, a hulk of concrete that was an awkward eyesore in a gentrifying district. His renovation converted it into the first museum of contemporary African art anywhere on the continent (and it's his first building in Africa).
He also takes the audience on a modest tour of his prolific output - the Seed Cathedral for the Shanghai World Expo, the double-decker London bus, the kinetic Olympic cauldron, the proposed garden bridge over the Thames.

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Definitely memorable and meaningful. The talk itself too

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