Heatherwick Studio has released photography of its plant-covered 1,000 Trees development in Shanghai, which has had its scaffolding removed.

Split across two sites beside the city's M50 arts district, 1,000 Trees will comprise two mountain-like peaks that contain a mix of retail, offices, eateries, event venues and galleries.
The latest images unveiled by Heatherwick Studio reveal that the first "mountain", which is set to open in 2020, is nearing completion.

As its name suggests, 1,000 Trees is distinguished by hundreds of plants that emerge from its staggered, pixellated surface.
The trees are housed in giant planters that sit on top of structural concrete columns placed across the mountain. The photos show that there are three different sized plant pots.
"We chose to express the structure and develop a strong identity to the columns as we knew they would be present in all the programmatic uses of the building," project leader Lisa Finlay told Dezeen.
"We see the planters as natural extensions of the columns, almost like a shoot that has worked its way through three levels of car park, eight levels of retail, and then up and out to the roofscape to blossom."

Each planter is complete with a handmade-like finish, which the studio designed "to achieve a rich and interesting texture" from both a distance and up close.
"As a studio we are really interested in materiality and a lot of research went into the planters themselves so...