Heatherwick Studio has recently unveiled the latest photos of the giant sculpture containing 350 trees installed outside Buckingham Palace in London. Designed by Thomas Heatherwick-led studio, the 21-meter-high sculpture nears its completion. It is aimed to bring people’s attention toward the tree-planting campaign marking 70 successful years of the Queen's reign. The project will be officially unveiled on 2 June as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend celebrations. The main aim of this installation is to draw attention to a great community campaign of planting initiatives called the Queen's Green Canopy, which has witnessed a million trees planted from October 2021 to March 2022. Read more about the project below at SURFACES REPORTER (SR):
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The sculpture can be seen outside Buckingham Palace, which is the Queen's London residence and looks almost complete. The topping of the sculpture is due to be installed. Created by UK-based Millimetre, the tree-shaped sculpture, once complete, will support 350 types of indigenous trees of Britain on its steel branches. Hence it aptly got its name 'Tree of Trees'.
The 69-foot-huge-sculpture has a central steel core surrounded by stacked steel tubes that are twisted to create the tree’s trunk and extend to form branches at the upper levels.
The sculpture is a part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend celebrations. It will rise above the railings and gates of the palace.
Aluminium Pots Hold The Trees
The trees will be placed in aluminium pots. Further, these will be maintained using an integrated irrigation system during the two-week installation. The plants come from nurseries and workshops across the country. Once the Jubilee weekend celebrations finish, the sculpture will be dismantled and the tree pots used in it will be stored until the next planting season in October and then these will be donated to the community groups.
The other interesting and sustainable project finished by London-based Heatherwick Studio was 1,000 Trees in Shanghai, which we have also covered on our website.
Visualization courtesy: PicturePlane for Heatherwick Studio
Source: https://www.heatherwick.com/
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