Árvore dos Desejos (Wish Tree)

Árvore dos Desejos (Wish Tree)
Brasília, Brazil (BR)
In 1963, Lourivaldo Soares Marques planted a pair of rubber fig saplings alongside his newsstand to provide shade. The ficuses’ free-flowing aerial roots, shaped by years of careful pruning, now grow together as a single trunk, framing a perfectly-formed doorway. Soares’s landscaping has become a neighborhood landmark, an organic and human-scaled response to the concrete monuments in the city center.
In 1963, Lourivaldo Soares Marques planted a pair of rubber fig saplings alongside his newsstand to provide shade. The ficuses’ free-flowing aerial roots, shaped by years of careful pruning, now grow together as a single trunk, framing a perfectly-formed doorway. Soares’s landscaping has become a neighborhood landmark, an organic and human-scaled response to the concrete monuments in the city center.
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By: kkeps

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