Joseph Bankes Building,
Kew Gardens, Surrey.

This competition-winning design created a new facility for the Botanic Gardens with a semi-submerged building partially enveloped by its surrounding landscape, centred on a linear glazed atrium, which divided public exhibition space from private study carrels and laboratories.

The landscape design embodied a number of important typographies including the ‘Elysian Fields’ which connect the new building’s lake to the 18th century landscapes of Kew Palace; as well as the terraced gardens facing the main building façade which exhibit native plantings, and the Portland stone roof garden with its culinary, medicinal and aromatic plantings.