An Evening with Wolfgang Buttress

When: Wednesday 25th May 18.00
Where: BDP, 16 Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ

BDP is a fringe partner for this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week with Brewhouse Yard acting as one of the core hubs, at the heart of Clerkenwell’s cluster of world-class design studios and showrooms. London studio is delighted to be hosting an evening with renowned artist, Wolfgang Buttress, who will talk about The Hive, the centrepiece of the multi-award winning UK Pavilion at Milan Expo 2015. The structure, which is an immersive, multi-sensory experience inspired by UK groundbreaking scientific research into the health of bees, has been relocated to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and is open to the public from June 2016.

BDP’s architects, landscape designers, lighting and sustainability consultants worked on the original pavilion as part of a team led by Nottingham-based Wolfgang Buttress and including contractor Stage One and structural engineer Tristan Simmonds. It was visited by over 3.3 million people in just six months, with a further 450 million people viewing it across the world’s media and online and it received multiple awards, including the Expo’s gold medal for best architecture and landscape design.