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British designer Thomas Heatherwick, famous for creating a seed dome at 2010 Shanghai World Expo, returns to China with a new show. Sun Yuanqing reports.

British designer Thomas Heatherwick, who is well-known in China for his work on the UK pavilion at 2010 Shanghai World Expo, was in Beijing recently to attend the opening of The New British Inventors: Inside Heatherwick Studio exhibition at an art museum.

Curated by Kate Goodwin, head of architecture at London's Royal Academy of Arts, the ongoing show is being held at the Central Academy of Fine Arts to display models of some finished projects the designer has so far undertaken. The centerpiece is the Seed Cathedral that was created for the UK pavilion during the Shanghai exposition.