Brooklyn Botanical Garden Visitor Center features a 10,000 square foot living roof
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Designed by the New York based architectural firm Weiss/Manfredi, the Visitor Center merges modern architecture with a landscape teeming with plant life
The new visitor center at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens was inaugurated with a ribbon cutting ceremony with Mayor Bloomberg
Exhibition gallery at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Visitor Center
The new structure features a large glass building that has been embedded into an existing hill
The new visitor center at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens blends into its surrounding environment
Fritted curved glass walls of the center offer visitors consistent views of the surrounding garden landscape
The leaf-shaped living roof hosts over 40,000 plant types
The Visitor Center incorporates a 10,000 square foot (929 square meter) living roof
The Center opens out into major garden precincts like the Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden and Cherry Esplanade
The fritted curved glass walls allows natural light to filter through the building
Close to 60,000 plants have been installed around the building
The Visitor Center incorporates numerous environmentally sustainable design features, including a geoexchange system heats and cools the interior spaces
The fritted aspect of the glass also hopes to help prevent birds from flying into the glass panels
Dramatic floor-to-ceiling curved glass walls open out into the surrounding parkland and themed gardens
The new Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Visitor Center street entrance
The new Brooklyn Botanical Garden's Visitor Center street entrance
Close to 60,000 plants have been installed around the building, seamlessly blending the visitor center into the green tapestry of the garden
The new visitor center at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens officially opened its doors earlier this month and includes an impressive 10,000 square foot (929 square meter) living roof
The center merges modern architecture with an abundant landscape design that blends together Brooklyn’s urban and garden environments
By building into a preexisting berm at the north end, the structure taps into the a geothermal energy source
Article Summary
The new Visitor Center at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens officially opened its doors earlier this month and was inaugurated with a ribbon cutting ceremony with Mayor Bloomberg. Designed by the New York based architectural firm Weiss/Manfredi, the center merges modern architecture with landscape design that blends together Brooklyn’s urban and garden environments.
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