Wolfgang Buttress? UK Expo Pavilion, "The Hive," Wins 2016 Landscape Institute Award
BDP and Wolfgang Buttress? pavilion, The Hive, has been awarded the 2016 Landscape Institute Award for Best Design for a Temporary Landscape as part of their 2016 awards program.
© Nick Caville BDP. Courtesy of the Landscape Institute
BDP and Wolfgang Buttress? pavilion, The Hive, has been awarded the 2016 Landscape Institute Award for Best Design for a Temporary Landscape as part of their 2016 awards program.Judges for the award noted the project?s ability to interact with its site, remarking that they were ?impressed by the quality and simplicity of the design and execution, in particular the way in which the design works with a sensitive landscape to provide a beautiful and functional temporary setting for the installation, and a longer-term facility for events and education.?
Image Courtesy of Kew
?The submission engages with the idea of ?temporary? in an interesting way. It uses the temporary opportunity of the installation to engage thoughtfully with the purpose, and short and long-term needs of the site,? the judges? statement continued.Originally designed for the Milan Expo 2015, The Hive has since been relocated to Kew Gardens in central London for two years as part of a larger event space. Designed to provide visitors with a glimpse into the lives of working bees, the pavilion is constructed of 169,300 individual aluminum components equipped with hundreds of LED lights. As the meadow surrounding the structure develops, various plant sp...
© Nick Caville BDP. Courtesy of the Landscape Institute
BDP and Wolfgang Buttress? pavilion, The Hive, has been awarded the 2016 Landscape Institute Award for Best Design for a Temporary Landscape as part of their 2016 awards program.Judges for the award noted the project?s ability to interact with its site, remarking that they were ?impressed by the quality and simplicity of the design and execution, in particular the way in which the design works with a sensitive landscape to provide a beautiful and functional temporary setting for the installation, and a longer-term facility for events and education.?
Image Courtesy of Kew
?The submission engages with the idea of ?temporary? in an interesting way. It uses the temporary opportunity of the installation to engage thoughtfully with the purpose, and short and long-term needs of the site,? the judges? statement continued.Originally designed for the Milan Expo 2015, The Hive has since been relocated to Kew Gardens in central London for two years as part of a larger event space. Designed to provide visitors with a glimpse into the lives of working bees, the pavilion is constructed of 169,300 individual aluminum components equipped with hundreds of LED lights. As the meadow surrounding the structure develops, various plant sp...
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