UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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UK Pavilion by Thomas Heatherwick

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.

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