Before creating large-scale, headline-making landmarks \u2013 the Vessel and Little Island in New York, and\u00a01000 Trees\u00a0in Shanghai amongst them \u2013 Thomas Heatherwick established his name with striking, small-scale works, building-sized objects, witty, ingenious and often kinetic. There was 2004\u2019s curling, crowd-pleasing Rolling Bridge in London\u2019s Paddington and The Sitooterie, a...
established his name with striking, small-scale works, building-sized objects, witty, ingenious and often kinetic. There was 2004’s curling, crowd-pleasing Rolling Bridge in London’s Paddington and The Sitooterie, a hedgehoggy garden seat, created two years earlier in Essex.
Grimshaw had studied botany and came up with the idea of the Silk Route Garden. Two years in the devising and planting, the garden path now winds through 12 biomes, from Mediterranean Bursa through Anatolian Plateau and Tibetan Meadows and over a sheep-repelling ha-ha to the subtropical glasshouse, creating a kind of teasing theatre along the way. ‘The garden is a kind of maze where you keep thinking you are near the end and at the glasshouse but it keeps pulling you back,’ Heatherwick says.
Heatherwick says the technical challenge was ensuring the building could handle that shifting centre of gravity and that the sepals achieved a weather-proof seal when closed and didn’t get in any kind of tangle in the blossoming process. shaped after an actual bamboo add to the glasshouse’s steampunk air. And it makes sense that the building has a retro sci-fi thrust to it.
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