Teesside Power Station, Stockton-On-Tees, Teesside, UK 2011 © Heatherwick Studio

One of the most moving parts of the Olympics Opening Ceremony was, for me, realising that honour of lighting the torch hadn’t gone to an Olympic veteran, but an unknown group of teenagers. The generation the Olympics promised to inspire, in other words. The torch itself was designed by Thomas Heatherwick, and the V&A is now showing his first major solo exhibition.

Alongside the torch, the exhibition features drawings, models and mock-ups of more than 150 Heatherwick-designed works, from the new London double-decker bus to the East Beach Café in Littlehampton, West Sussex. It covers everything from his student pieces to his most recent commissions.