Last month TED posted a lecture by British architect Thomas Heatherwick on the integration of nature and design, with the main discussion focusing on bio-inspired architecture. This fifteen minute presentation covered important topics of scale, intricacy, and efficiency in design, as Heatherwick guided us through a series of projects undertaken by his practice. The review of the design, social implications, and imaginative multi-functional use of a new energy infrastructure project (top), was perhaps the real strongest and most engaging aspect of the talk, while the exploration of new design in apartments was a close second, with a series of both imaginative concepts and graphics (bottom).