COME FLY AN AIRBUS A380 AT MIRACLE GARDEN
A new botanical wonder has taken root at Dubai Miracle Garden, with the construction of the world’s largest floral installation in the shape of an Emirates A380. Plants used for the ‘living’ A380 were sustainably grown, and structure was built from recycled materials. Let a million miracles bloom!
dubai — The world’s largest passenger airline, A380, has just made a perfect landing at the Dubai Miracle Garden and it is blooming with flowers.
Emirates Airline has teamed up with Dubai Miracle Garden to construct the world’s largest floral installation through a life-size version of the Emirates A380, covered in more than 500,000 fresh flowers and living plants.
Starting on November 27, the Emirates A380 installation will be on display and can be viewed from a special platform comprising two levels in the centre of the garden
When in full bloom, the aircraft structure will have an unprecedented total stem count of 5 million flowers and will weigh over 100 tonnes (take-off weight of an actual A380 is 575 tonnes).
Boutros Boutros, divisional senior vice-president, Corporate Communications, Marketing & Brand said: “The Emirates A380 is a statement-making aircraft that is tremendously popular with passengers around the world, and we hope that through our collaborative efforts with Dubai Miracle Garden, we will inform, inspire and delight visitors through the sheer scale and beauty of the floral A380 installation. Aviation affects all of our lives, and the A380 on show will offer visitors the opportunity to get up close to the double-decker. The progressive environmental initiatives and methods of building and planting the Emirates A380 installation are also in harmony with the eco-efficiency of the aircraft.”
“Having an Emirates A380 is a great achievement for Dubai Miracle Garden and we are proud to have the floral installation,” said Abdel Naser Rahhal, co-founder and creator of Dubai Miracle Garden.
“This standing piece of art is a result of countless hours of brainstorming, designing and strategising to pull all of the details together. As our motto says: We are the green masters and bloom makers, wherever we go we make it green, whatever we touch we make it bloom.”
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