The Great Glasshouse, Lianarthe, Carmarthenshire

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The Great Glasshouse
Designer Foster + Partners, London, England, United Kingdom
Location Lianarthe, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom
Date 2000
Construction System Concrete, glass, steel, aluminum
Climate Temperate
Context Rural
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Client National Botanic Garden of Wales
Cost US $12,079,000
Area 61,886 sq. ft. (5,800 sq. m.)
Height 50 ft. (15 m.)
Width 325 ft. (99 m.)
Other Details 24 tubular-steel arches spring from a concrete ring beam.





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Phaidon Press Inc. The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture. New York, NY: Phaidon Press Inc., 2004. ISBN 0-7148-43121. p.276

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