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A Seed Cathedral --The UK Pavilion About the pavilion Developed by one of the UK’s leading creative talents, Thomas Heatherwick, the centrepiece of the UK pavilion is a six storey high object formed from some 60,000 slender transparent rods, which extend from the structure and quiver in the breeze. During the day, each of the 7.5m long rods act like fibre-optic filaments, drawing on daylight to illuminate the interior, thereby creating a contemplative awe-inspiring space. At night, light sources at the interior end of each rod allow the whole structure to glow. The pavilion sits on a landscape looking like paper that once wrapped the building and that now lies unfolded on the site. Pavilion Concept The?UK with its millions of gardens, thousands of public parks and garden squares, has pioneered the integration of nature into cities as a way of making them healthier places in which to live and work. The UK Pavilion encourages you to look at the role of nature and wonder whether it could be used to solve the current social, economic and environmental challenges of our cities. Pavilion Concept The UK Pavilion draws on the UK tradition and love of parks and gardens and offers a journey that celebrates ‘green-ness’; reflects the profound importance of maintaining a connection to the natural world; brings biodiversity into the heart of its vision for the better city of the future; and finishes by suggesting ways in which the future evolution of cities can draw on a deeper understanding of the natural world. Pavilion Concept It imagines the future ‘natural city’ developed in harmony with nature and enriched by technological innovation, which could nurture a pleasurable and sustainable urban lifestyle.?It builds on the UKs past and present in looking forward to the future. UK With Expo The first World Expo came about in the United Kingdom and was then known as the Great Exhibition, held in the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park. This majestic metal-and-glass edifice was not o