Garden Of Eden - Greenhouse Project

Eden project - is not only an outstanding piece of architecture, astonishing audiences with their appearance, but also the world's largest greenhouse. Inside the artificial biomes - plants collected from around the world.

In the British Province, Cornwall, away from noisy roads and the popular tourist routes, near the small town of St. Austell built a unique greenhouse - Project Eden, a place where assembled one of the largest collections of flora on the planet, a real Garden of Eden, which brought to life idea of the beautiful, lush world, the preservation of which depends on every citizen of Earth.

Inspirer of the project was Tim Smith, a music producer, and architectural design engaged Nicholas Grimshaw, the arsenal is not anything, and Waterloo Station in London.

In successful venture, few believed, but the result exceeded all expectations.

The opening of the complex on 17 March 2001. In an area of 1.6 hectares, there are two greenhouses, made a very unusual - it's huge, interconnected by a geodesic dome - biomes covered multi-layered, translucent film of ETFE, well let ultra-violet rays, which is important for the welfare of plants.

In one biomes tropical flora in the other - the Mediterranean, and the third part of the complex is situated in the open air, it planted the plants, capable of adapting to local conditions.

Jungle with rain forests, olive groves, rubber trees and rice straw, cotton and ether-oil plants, bamboo, citrus and cork trees, as well as demonstrating that out of all this is - are all subject to the main idea of the creators of "Eden" - show place and importance of plants in human life.

To date, Project Eden - is not just a popular tourist destination, a place where visitors do not stop to talk and demonstrate how close we are to nature, and how important it is for us to protect it.