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British designer Heatherwick is set to create a 21-metre-high sculpture named Tree of Trees at Buckingham Palace.
Erected as part of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee weekend celebrations, the sculpture will contain 350 types of trees found in Britain.
Commenters aren't sold on the idea. One called it, "another colossal waste of resources".
Other stories in this week's newsletter include a series of stone quarries in China that DnA_Design and Architecture has transformed into cultural spaces, Norman Foster's plan to "rehabilitate" the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv following the Russian invasion and news of Japan's tallest tower topping out in Tokyo.
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