Botanics unveils a clear vision for glass-walled visitor centre

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2006 / June 7

Designers behind plans to create Scotland's largest visitor centre at the Royal Botanic Garden have revealed it will feature a spectacular curved glass wall to ensure the focus of the attraction is still the garden itself. The team behind the Ł13 million Gateway National Biodiversity Centre at the Botanics said they wanted the building to feel like part of the natural landscape of the popular attraction. And they are hoping to give people inside the centre the impression of being out in the gardens, with glass walls drawing their eye to the views outside. The main feature of the development is a large curved wall, built around a slope on the site of the development at the garden's West Gate to create what the designers describe as a "theatre of plants".

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