PROJECT: John Hope Gateway Building

LOCATION: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

DATE: Completed 2009

The John Hope Gateway is a threshold into the secret world of Edinburgh's Botanic Garden with exhibitions, a media studio, indoor and outdoor education spaces, shops, a restaurant and a new bio-diversity garden.

A sustainable, low-energy, minimum-waste approach to the building's design became part of the message the Garden wished to convey to its visitors. The Gateway has many demonstrable environmental solutions, including a biomass boiler, a green roof, rainwater harvesting, a wind turbine, natural ventilation and passive night-time cooling.

We were awarded Public Building Architect of the Year at the 2010 Architect of the Year Awards for the John Hope Gateway, the new Herbarium Wing at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the future Maggie's Cancer Caring Centre in Newcastle.

Contractor: Xircon
Structural Engineer: Buro Happold
M&E Engineer: Max Fordham LLP
Landscape Architect: Gross Max
Lighting Consultant: Speirs + Major

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