The Natural History Museum in London has opened two new gardens, complete with two new dinosaurs, in time for summer visitors, offering scope for urban nature, scientific study, and – not least – outdoor play and discovery. To top it off, principles of sustainable architecture are embraced at the project’s every turn.
Serving as ‘outdoor galleries’, the Evolution Garden and the Nature Discovery Garden result from a complete transformation of the five-acre site, led by architects Feilden Fowles (also behind Yorkshire Sculpture Park's visitor centre and an education barn at Waterloo City Farm), working in collaboration with landscape architects J&L Gibbons and alongside Gitta Gschwendtner, engineers HRW and Max Fordham.
