Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Seed Bank in the Wind



British designer Thomas Heatherwick has created the British Pavilion of the Shanghai Expo 2010: a 20 metre high building made up of 60,000 transparent acrylic filaments, each of which holds a seed from Kew Gardens' huge Millennium Seed Bank – a worldwide project to preserve a quarter of the world's plant species.



The 7.5 metre long spikes sway gently in the breeze

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