Davies Alpine House glasshouse opened March 2006 Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond Surrey England Britain UK Europe EU
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 Kew 's plantsmen have selected from a huge variety of campanulas, dianthus, small ferns, helichrysum, small lavenders, primulas, saxifrage, thymes, tulips, and verbascums – plus many other rare and lesser-known species. At each end of the house are display benches that will have a constantly changing display of plants in flower.
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