The breathtaking Seed Cathedral was an installation/pavilion created by Heatherwick Studios for the 2010 Shanghai Expo. The pavilion was a platform to show the work of the UK Royal Botanical Gardens, and showed off thousands and thousands of seeds in these stunning transparent acrylic rods that were illuminated by daylight (you can see the seeds in the closeup photo). The pavilion has since been dismantled, but there are photos and videos to check out over at Heatherwick’s site. The project looks like such an incredible undertaking and the visual is like a dream. Very cool.
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Posted by Rachael Novak
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What a wonderful design. It looks like a jumbo version of those metal individual pieces set in a plastic frame, you can turn one way and make an impression then turn it up and it keeps the impression. Do you know what I am talking about?
Amen to candy.
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Why do people not realize that all of those seeds can not be used to make new plants, and so are a mockery of usefulness? They are incased in acrylic, and will rot away as a showpiece of how humans look at nature: a showpiece. Not as something truely precious, but abstracted and perverted by our way of using it. Instead of being used to help our failing flora, we send it to the incinerator, as we can’t be bothered to even use the pavilions beyond half a year.
Even as the expo was about green technology, we mocked nature in every step that we took, squandering all that makes it great.
This pavilion is a true testiment to the hubris of humanity, and to the outlook on nature as something purposeless beyond our own amusement.
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