Ballarat Botanical Gardens Robert Clark Horticultural Centre

  • client City of Ballarat

    status Complete 1995

    location Wendouree Parade, Lake Wendouree, Ballarat, Victoria

    traditional land owners Wadawurrung People

    photography John Gollings

  • 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.

  • 1996 Royal Australian Institute of Architects New Institutional [award of merit]

    1995 Australian Institute of Steel Construction Victorian Architectural Steel Design Award for Buildings

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