Core Building at the Eden Project
by Shirley Mitchell
Title
Core Building at the Eden Project
Artist
Shirley Mitchell
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Eden Project in Cornwall England is a dramatic global garden housed in tropical biomes that nestle in a crater the size of 30 football fields and attracts many visitors. The Core Building shown here is of beautiful modern architectural design based on a sunflower.
Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments. The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite pit, from the town of St Austell, Cornwall.
The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The largest of the two biomes simulates a Rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage.
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May 13th, 2022
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