Olympic Cauldron Designer Heatherwick Looks to Future

A stylish new fleet of red double-decker buses is fanning out onto London’s streets. You can hop on and off them, as in the old days.

The hybrid vehicles (which use 40 percent less fossil fuel) were commissioned by Mayor of London Boris Johnson. They’re by Thomas Heatherwick, designer of the 204-piece Olympic cauldron, which a billion television viewers discovered in the London 2012 opening ceremony.