page_title: Thomas Heatherwick
section_title: Bombay Sapphire Distillery
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Heatherwick / Key works / Bombay Sapphire Distillery
caption_attribution_description: English: A modern extension to Laverstoke Mill
context_page_description: Thomas Alexander Heatherwick, CBE RA RDI is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. Since the late 1990s Heatherwick has emerged as one of Britain's most significant designers. Heatherwick works with a team of around 180 architects, designers and makers from a studio and workshop in King's Cross, London.
  Heatherwick has been involved in the design of many projects, some controversial, including the Olympic Cauldron, the New Routemaster bus, and the UK pavilion at Expo 2010. Other notable projects include the renovation of the Hong Kong Pacific Place, the cancelled Garden Bridge, a proposed plan for a biomass power station in BEI-Teesside, and the Vessel in New York.
context_section_description: Heatherwick Studio led the masterplan and design for the Bombay Sapphire gin distillery in Hampshire, which opened in 2014. The transformation of the five-acre site included the renovation a 300-year-old paper mill and the restoration 23 existing buildings. In the modernisation scheme, the River Test, which runs through the site, was widened and used as an organisational device. Two curved glasshouses, one with a temperate climate and one with a Mediterranean climate, emerge from the renovated mill building and house the 10 botanicals used in the gin distillation process. Waste heat from the still house is recycled and used to grow the plant species within the glasshouses. Traditional large copper stills are located within the interior, which consists of an educational dry room and bar to accommodate tours and public events. The project was the first facility in the drinks manufacturing industry and the first renovation to achieve BREEAM 'outstanding' accreditation.
caption: The distillery glasshouses
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