5501 x 4629 px | 46,6 x 39,2 cm | 18,3 x 15,4 inches | 300dpi
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RIBA Award winning Davies Alpine House at Kew Gardens opens to public: first new glasshouse for 2 decades The Davies Alpine House, a striking new glasshouse providing the new public face for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew's internationally renowned alpine collection. The 2006 RIBA Award winning landmark building, designed by twice-Stirling Prize winning architects Wilkinson Eyre, is the first new glasshouse to be constructed at the World Heritage Site for over 20 years and continues the remarkable tradition of innovative, high-quality glasshouses at Kew Gardens. The elegant glass structure, a building of significant presence and unusual form, will provide the best possible environment for alpine plant growth. Set within the existing rock garden, the new glasshouse will dramatically increase the profile and visitor experience of the collection in an appropriate setting. The Davies Alpine House's shape and geometry have been designed to create the complex environmental conditions necessary for alpine growth through passive means, providing a sustainable, energy-efficient growing environment for the plants. The Davies Alpine House combines sustainability, technology and accessibility in an architecture that is at once pragmatic and arresting, reflectin
