We absolutely loved our visit to the UK Pavilion at Expo Milano. Even a few years later, it still is very up to date.
Wolfgang Buttress is an award-winning artist working with public and private spaces. He creates simple, elegant and contextual works that seek to define and celebrate a sense of place and the sublime. His work alludes to stories, traces and memories that are both personal and contextual. He was born in 1965 and studied BA (Hons) Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University in 1987.
It was a unique experience to visit this pavilion. A great experience that we will never forget.
Visitors take part in an immersive experience through a British orchard and wildflower meadow with typical native plant species, then head to a stylized 17 meter high bee hive in the form of an aluminum sphere . The hive is made up of more than 180,000 components and weighs 30 tonnes. Visitors are surrounded by sounds and lights that flash in response to the movements of a real beehive located in the United Kingdom. This innovative technology monitors the health of hives and helps solve the problem of maintaining bee populations – essential for pollination and feeding the planet.
