▲ Enters the Wentworth Woodhouse Show Garden category of the RHS Flower Show, one of the world's top three garden festivals

▲ Enhances the prestige and status of high-end housing with artistic landscaping, proven by numerous prestigious international awards

Hyundai E&C’s art garden will be created at a representative national heritage site in the UK and unveiled to a global audience.

Hyundai E&C recently announced that Garden Whispers, a collaborative project with Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University, has been selected for inclusion in the Show Garden category of the RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025, one of the flower shows organized by the UK's Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). The show garden will be constructed on-site in the UK.

The UK's RHS Flower Shows are world-renowned garden exhibitions with a history spanning over a century, hosting large-scale festivals in major UK cities like Chelsea and Malvern. Among them, the Chelsea Flower Show is considered one of the world's top three garden festivals, alongside Germany's Federal Garden Show and France's Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival. This is the first time a Korean construction company has submitted an entry to a world-class garden exhibition and physically created a garden on-site in Europe.

Garden Whispers, selected for the Wentworth Woodhouse Flower Show, is a joint creation by Professor Choi Hye-young of Sungkyunkwan University and Senior Manager Choi Yeon-gil of Hyundai E&C. This garden, which seems to invite visitors into a poetic landscape through white columns arranged at various heights, is characterized by the harmony of tranquil resting spaces and vibrant herbaceous flowers within a three-dimensional silhouette that ripples rhythmically with the breeze. Notably, sustainability was also a key consideration, with 3D printing technology using recycled plastic for some of the garden's paving and seating.

The consensus is that the artistic imagination that harmoniously integrated structural elements, typically used to define a garden's boundaries, into a single space, along with the sophisticated expression of nature's materiality, captured the hearts of the discerning Royal Horticultural Society judges.

Hyundai E&C previously collaborated with Professor Choi Hye-young to unveil the show garden Library & Garden at Seoul’s Olympic Park Foreon Complex 3 site, which was completed last year. This garden, with its white columns and wild natural materials fostering an exotic vibe, is a space that encourages a peaceful sense of healing and contemplation within the bustling city. This year’s Garden Whispers is its successor.

The fact that the flower show where Garden Whispers will be unveiled is being held at Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire, England, is also special. This Baroque-style stately home, built in the 18th century, is considered one of the finest and most magnificent Georgian-era buildings in England. Its 87-acre garden and grounds, which feature a deer park and a lake, are managed as a national heritage site.

The RHS Flower Show Wentworth Woodhouse 2025 will be held for five days, from July 16th to the 20th, and will include on-site judging and an awards ceremony for the participating works to commemorate the flower show. Hyundai E&C plans to recreate Garden Whispers, as unveiled at the flower show, at its THE H Bangbae site, scheduled for completion next year.

Hyundai E&C Senior Manager Choi Yeon-gil, who participated in the official on-site visit in preparation for the garden's construction in the UK in July, shared his thoughts: “It is an honor to showcase Hyundai E&C's distinguished landscape design at a world-class garden exhibition.” He added, “I am pleased that Hyundai E&C's landscaping, crafted with deep dedication over many years, is being recognized for its artistic merit as a distinct work of art.”

Hyundai E&C's top-tier landscaping capabilities have been recently recognized with the award of eight accolades in the landscape category alone at the world's three major design awards (Red Dot, IDEA, iF). Last year, Seoul’s THE H First Tier IPARK received the Presidential Award at the Korea Landscape Architecture Awards.

To differentiate its high-end brand, THE H, Hyundai E&C is continuously pursuing various initiatives, such as collaborating with world-renowned artists like Karel Martens of the Netherlands and Anthony Browne of the UK. The company plans to continue expanding its creation of artistically specialized spaces that embody aesthetic, environmental, and emotional value at major project sites, such as the Apgujeong district redevelopment initiative.