Ok, so I usually detest design posts. It’s way too easy to get bogged down and drowned in ones own pretentions. The next thing you know, you’re wearing flannel, sipping an imported beer and burdening the internet with seventeen new shades of fucktard.
With that in mind, I shall say very little about this building/work of art (a decision made a little easier by the fact that not even the people who made the damn thing seem able to explain it with any level of satisfaction).
Designed by Heathwick Studio for the Shanghai 2010 Expo, the UK Pavilion;
“[…]has three main aims: the first is to be a pavilion whose architecture is a direct manifestation of the content it exhibits; the second is to provide significant public open space in which visitors can relax; the third is to find a simple idea that is strong enough to stand out amidst the busy-ness of the hundreds of competing pavilions.” LINK
Make of that what you will.
Its structure is made up of sixty-thousand optical rods that filter in daylight, illuminating the small seeds imbedded in each tip.
Some more info and pics HERE.
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