Buckingham Palace gets giant sculpture with trees to celebrate Jubilee

When the UK celebrates the Queen’s 70th birthday Elizabeth IIyour platinum jubileein June, an impressive tree-shaped sculpture will stand outside the Buckingham Palaceat the center of the celebrations.

designed by Heatherwick Studiothe 21-meter-tall “Tree of Trees” will feature 350 native British trees attached to a giant steel structure, reflecting the initiative. The Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC), which invited Britons to “plant a tree for the Jubilee” between October 2021 and March 2022. More than a million trees were planted in those months, according to the QGC website.

the british designer Thomas Heatherwickfounder of Heatherwick Studio, said in a press release that Tree of Trees was “coming together from workshops and nurseries across the country as part of an incredible community campaign that is literally changing the landscape of our nation.”

Heatherwick has been behind many design projects, from London’s new Routemaster buses to London’s 2012 Olympic Cauldron. The latest sculpture revisits the arboreal theme of some of the atelier’s previous work.

Last year in Shanghai, Heatherwick and her team created the 1000 Treesa shopping mall with 1,000 potted trees on top of the building’s 1,000 structural columns.

In the United States, Heatherwick built little islanda park on a pier on the Manhattan River that featured more than 100 different species of trees and plants native to New York.

All 350 trees in the Tree of Trees will be in aluminum vases engraved with the Queen’s cipher, according to Heatherwick Studio. In October, after the Jubilee festivities, the trees will be distributed to community organizations.

The Platinum Jubilee weekend celebrations, which include a contest and lighthouse lighting at over 1,500 venues across the UK and its overseas territories, will take place from 2 to 5 June.

Source: CNN Brasil

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