Movie: UK Pavilion at Shanghai Expo 2010
by Thomas Heatherwick

Shanghai Expo 2010: Here’s a movie of British designer Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010, which opens next month.
The movie explores the interior and exterior surface of the Seed Cathedral, which features seeds encased at the tips of 60,000 fibre-optic rods.
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More information about the design here.
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