Design created with no concrete and completely sustainable materials is first to win new environmental prize
This year’s show, held in the Royal hospital gardens in south-west London, has a strong environmental theme. At the press day on Monday, Dame Judi Dench was presented with a seedling taken from theshe plants a tree every time one of her friends dies, said: “They let me name him and I named him Antoninus, after Hadrian’s adopted son.” The Roman emperor Hadrian built Hadrian’s Wall, where the Sycamore Gap tree stood.
Giulio Giorgi, a first-time Chelsea designer, said he created the green medal-winning World Child Cancer Nurturing Garden with no concrete, and with completely sustainable materials. Most gardens contain concrete in some form or another and the materials they are built from often contain the highest carbon footprint.The design will be relocated to RHS Garden Wisley, in Surrey, where it will live on after the show as an educational facility.
Giorgi said: “Often we use a lot of metal, glues, cement, and then all the energy we have to put in to build the gardens. The material in our garden is low-temperature-fired terracotta, which we made into 3D-printed bricks, connecting ancient tradition with new practices. It’s fired at only 800C so it can be fired by electricity, without gas.
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