Kew Gardens lines up Matt+Fiona for treehouses project

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Architecture educators will work with schoolchildren to design structure for 2023 event

The organisers of next year’s Treehouses at Kew event have named the team that will design a fourth structure for the Royal Botanic Gardens’ celebration of architecture and arboriculture.

Architecture educators Matt+Fiona will work year-five children at Clarendon School, which is near the south-west London Unesco World Heritage Site, to create a treehouse on the theme of “the power of trees” for the event.

Last month the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Museum of Architecture charity picked proposals by India Aspin and Amy Jenkins Smith; Patrick Fryer, Thomas Randall-Page and Xylotek; and Kevin Kelly Architects with Stand as the three winners of an international design competition for the project.

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