9-550: The Savill Building is a visitor centre at the entrance to The Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park , Surrey , England designed by Glen Howells Architects , Buro Happold and Engineers Haskins Robinson Waters. It was opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on 26 June 2006. The building is located on the space of a mature beech tree plantation which was severely damaged in the hurricane of 1987. All remaining mature trees were retained in
18-401: Is clad in plywood panels, with aluminium weather proofing and a top cladding of oak. All timber was harvested from the nearby Crown Estate . The roof is over 90 m in length and up to 25 m wide, and because of its own separate structural system appears to hover over the brick and glass facade of the building. The carpentry, which used over 400 larch trees and 20 carpenters, was done by
27-556: Is subdivided by Corian 'pods' which are separate from the main building structure. The building was shortlisted for the 2007 Stirling Prize . The structural design won the IStructE Structural Awards Supreme Award for Structural Engineering Excellence in 2007, in addition to the Award for Arts, Leisure or Entertainment Structures. At the 2007 RIBA Awards it also won a RIBA Award and a RIBA National Award. At
36-584: The 2007 Wood Awards it won, a Gold Award, a Commercial and Public Access Award, and Structural Award. Savill Garden The Savill Garden is an enclosed part of Windsor Great Park in England, created by Sir Eric Savill in the 1930s. It is managed by the Crown Estate and charges an entrance fee. The garden includes woodland, ornamental areas and a pond. The attractions include the New Zealand Garden,
45-488: The Green Oak Carpentry Company. The roof structure remains exposed from the inside, and is a notable feature of the building. The entrance facade is covered by an extensive green roof, which is planted with Microbiota decussata and Juniperus squamata . The exterior cladding of the building is a full-height glass curtain walling system, providing views from inside and creating an unusual lighting effect in
54-657: The Queen Elizabeth Temperate House and trees planted by members of the Royal Family . In June 2010, a new contemporary rose garden designed by Andrew Wilson and Gavin McWilliam of Wilson McWilliam Studio was opened by Queen Elizabeth II . Eric Savill (1895–1980) was the grandson of Alfred Savill the founder of a large firm of estate agents and was involved in managing Windsor Great Park from 1930 to 1970, being Director of Gardens from 1962 to 1970. He opened
63-758: The Savill Garden to the public in 1951 and left it as a heritage to the nation. In June 2006, a specially designed new visitor centre , the Savill Building by Glenn Howells Architects was opened. The timber for the floor and roof came from the Windsor Estate. The Savill Garden and the nearby Valley Gardens are Grade I listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens . 51°25′45″N 0°35′56″W / 51.4291°N 0.5990°W / 51.4291; -0.5990 This Surrey location article
72-400: The dark. The building, which is partially below ground level, contains a shop, seminar rooms, offices, planteria (small garden centre) and restaurant, with a raised terrace along one edge allowing views over the gardens from the centre's interior spaces. Below the entrance there is a basement housing service spaces including the kitchen, storerooms and washrooms. The large main internal space
81-483: The scheme. The Stirling Prize judges describe it as: The roof is the dominant feature of the building: The building has a 'three-domed' sinusoidal-shaped gridshell roof of two layers of interlocking larch laths (50 × 80 mm) on a one-metre square grid, supported on steel quadropods and a steel tubular ring-beam. The exact form of the roof was designed by Buro Happold to be the most structurally efficient possible using specialist in-house software (Tensyl). The roof
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