The Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth IIthat commemorates the fact of having climbed the British throne 70 years ago, and to celebrate this milestone, one of the most outstanding designers from the United Kingdom, Thomas Heatherwickhas created a unique structure. He Tree tree20 meters high, it was opened yesterday outside the Buckingham Palace, by People
In the United States, Heatherwick Studio's most recognizable work is probably the Vessel in Manhattan, the Hudson Yards honeycomb that was inaugurated in the spring of 2019. Like the vessel, the Tree tree It presents a contemporary industrial imagination in an organic way, although the London structure actually incorporates what refers to. With 80 branches of steel tubes, The sculpture supports 350 young trees in pot that extend to create the single tree silhouette. The tree has an irrigation system that maintains each pot duly watered regardless of the weather.
The Heatherwick Study structures usually have some connection with nature, either in the Google offices, full of natural light and coated with solar panels, which the study designed along with Bjarke Ingels, the striking floating park in the Hudson River in New York, or even the first residential project of the study, which is completely full of vegetation. Heatherwick is committed to emotion that plants cause in a spaceas explained to Digest Architectural In a 2020 interview about residential property: «[La biofilia] It is not just a matter of plants; It is about seeing the movement, having changes, hearing the sound and smelling the smells, all these microeffects that we take for granted until they are missing in the new developments. «