Project.
UK Pavilion, Milan Expo
- Location
- Italy
- Client
- UKTI
- Expertise
- Architecture
- Building Services Engineering
- Landscape Architecture
- Lighting
- Sustainability
- Completion
- 2015
- Cost
- £6m
A showcase for the best in UK offsite manufacturing and construction techniques - a collaboration between landscape and art that aims to highlight the decline of the world’s bee population.
The structure is a collaboration between landscape and art that aims to highlight the decline of the world’s bee population and the importance of pollination to the production of food.
Visitors walk through a fruit orchard and enter a natural wildflower meadow. As they near the centre of the meadow, the focal point of the structure comes into view: a golden orb made of fine steel lattice based on the design of a honeycomb.
The Hive, a 3D lattice steel structure sitting on 3m tall columns, pulsates and buzzes with the noise of a real bee colony.
Awards
Winner, Pavillions Category 2016Architizer A+ Awards
Special Pro Tem Award 2016Civic Trust Award
Best Public Building 2015Blueprint Award
