UK Pavilion
- City Weekend
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60,000 fiber optic cables stick out of this pavilion which was designed by Thomas Heatherwick (who was also responsible for the ball of spikes outside Manchester Stadium which ran into trouble when the spikes started coming loose). During the day, the rods direct light to the interior while at night the whole thing will glow like a kitsch artifact from the 1980s. Inside, thousands of seeds from the Millennium Seed Project will be on display, causing the whole thing to have been dubbed the “Seed Cathedral,” though some say it looks like a scared hedgehog.
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Not really worth it? Friends have said that there is nothing really inside the pavilion - you can look thru the tubes but at the end of each ....a seed. Lines were long!
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The hedgehog doesn't glow like a kitsch artifact at night, not even a sheer glimmer. It does however look spectacular during the day. Definitely worth visiting!
I loved this abstract concept.
From the seed, we have the beginning, germ of life from where eveything started and with the tubes, the dome, the light, the artificial grass we go to something totally futurist, nearly science fiction...and the futur is protecting the past as the seed are in the tubes...
I would pay a good price to be alone and in the silence inside the "cathedral". Though maybe this would be a strange feeling.... Contrary to many pavillion where there is animation/move (moovies, image, music), here it is freeze. Visitors are the only alive being, we nearly part of the setting, we make the heart of the cathedral beat...
I stop here, but I felt like in a science moovie there and I needed a little story with it :)