Th University of Bristol has revealed a new public artwork to mark the opening of the University's new Life Sciences building. After three years research, over 10,00 unique tree species have been gathered from across the planet. 

The sculptural pavilion is a collaboration between the artist Katie Paterson and the architects Zeller & Moye. 

Katie Paterson recalls:“Some samples are incredibly rare–fossils of unfathomable age, and fantastical trees such as Cedar of Lebanon, the Phoenix Palm,and the Methuselah tree thought to be one of the oldest trees in the World at 4, 847 years of age, as well as a railroad tie taken from the Panama Canal Railway, which claimed the lives of between 5,000 to 10,000 workers over its 50 year construction and wood is salvaged from the remnants of the iconic Atlantic city boardwalk devastated by hurricane Sandy in 2012.”

The artwork will be permanently sited in the historic Royal Fort Gardens in Bristol.