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The concept of Christmas

In Budapest, London and Manchester Hello Wood tells us that Christmas should be about giving something back to the community that we are part of.

Hello Wood, Let it Snow, London. Photo John Sturrock

For the third consecutive year, architectural group Hello Wood decided to rethink the concept of the Christmas tree.

They believe that Christmas should be about giving something back to the community that we are part of, and this thought should extend beyond the Christmas season. Hello Wood has treated architecture as a metaphor, using building material that will be reused after the holidays for various good causes. In addition to building an enormous Charity Tree in their home city of Budapest, this year the group brings their vision of meaningful Christmas trees to the two biggest cities of the United Kingdom: London and Manchester.