This is an extraordinary project, made possible by a benefactor’s generous gift of $2 million and located in a botanical garden setting of great beauty and richness. A new public floral conservatory is a rare event, particularly one whose main function is the display of the strange and wondrous Tuberous Begonias. Rising like a giant crystal from the ground, the Robert Clark Conservatory is derived from nature. The crystalline facetted form of this building is made through the process of ‘origami’ folding to produce a transparent spidery web of steel and glass.