All images © Hufton & Crow

Wolfgang Buttress designed a huge sculptural hive for UK Pavilion presented at Expo Milan 2015 which has started today and will continue until 31st October,2015.Wolfgang Buttress and stage one constructed and manifactured this magnificent detailed geometrical structure.Expo Milan 2015 will give place to several expositions/installations from different designers and architects.

These beautiful images from photographers,Hufton & Crow, show the Hive in all its complex and intricate glory. From a distance, the pavilion mimics the apparent chaos of nature, yet close up, the detailed geometry of the structure is revealed. With a total of 169,300 individual components, this was an extremely complex project but one which played to our strengths, confidently holding the ground between art, architecture and engineering.

Wolfgang Buttress has spent the last year working closely with artist Wolfgang Buttress, specialist structural engineer Tristram Simmonds and landscape architects BDP in order to realise the design in under 12 months, in good time for the Expo’s opening on May 1st.The UK’s long and narrow plot lends itself well to the meandering narrative of the bees’ journey through orchard, meadow and into Hive. 

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