An Executive Digest of the Industry: UK's Seed Cathedral

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An Executive Digest of the Industry: UK's Seed Cathedral - Construction Complete

UK's Seed Cathedral - Construction Complete

by Mike Chino, Inhabitat, 04/05/10

Shanghai Expo 2010, thomas heatherwick, uk pavilion, sustainable design, green design, sustainable architecture, green building, seed bank, pincushion building, porcupine building

The brilliant bristling structure you see above is not the world’s largest pincushion – it’s Thomas Heatherwick’s recently completed UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo. Dubbed the “Seed Cathedral”, the six-story high structure is studded with 60,000 translucent rods that act as fiber-optic filaments that channel sunlight into the pavilion’s interior. The densely-packed forest of filaments also contains the impetus to create living forests in the future — each 7.5 meter long “branch” contains seeds from the Millenium Seed Bank that will be given to China one the expo has run its course.

Nicknamed the “Dandelion”, Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion bristles with a dynamic facade that gently flexes and shimmers with each passing breeze. The beautiful building envelope blurs the boundaries between architecture and animated sculpture, while the area surrounding the pavilion features a network of pedestrian walkways and a landscaped park area.............read more

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