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Glasshouse photographs, Inverleith, Edinburgh, Scotland architectural design and garden spaces.

post updated 19 February 2025

2 Aug 2019
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£35m proposals abandoned due to threatened funding cuts: scheme to replace the Britain’s largest glasshouse halted despite officials warning they have an “appalling carbon footprint”.

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Plant Houses

The current glasshouses (1967 by the PSA) cost a huge sum in repair and general maintenance and have massive running costs. Long-term a new efficient and sustainable glasshouse needs to be constructed, the only question – given current financial strictures – should be ‘when’. 11 Nov 2010

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Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Photographs

Temperate Palm House
Tallest Victorian glasshouse in the world
Date built: 1858
Palm House – exterior:
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Palm House building interior:
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Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Temperate Palm House

Plant Houses
Date built: 1967
Property Services Agency – PSA
Modern greenhouse building:
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The landscape around the south side of the Plant Houses building
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The Herbarium
Date built: 1964
New Herbarium and Library Building:
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The Terrace Cafe
Date built: 1989
Botanic Gardens Cafe, adjacent to Inverleith House:
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Inverleith House
Date built: 1774
Architect: David Henderson
Inverleith House : north facade & south facade
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Botanics East Gate
Design: Ben Tindall Architects
Botanics East Gate
Edinburgh Botanic Gardens : photos © Adrian Welch jan 2007

Edinburgh Botanic Gardens Competition
won by Edward Cullinan Architects 2003

West Gate:
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gardens image from RBGE

Botanics Shop, West Gate
Ben Tindall

Edinburgh Botanic Gardens – East Gate:
Edinburgh Botanic Gardens East Gate
photograph © Adrian Welch

Edward Cullinan Architects in Edinburgh:
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