Gorgeous Brockholes Visitor Centre in UK

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Designed by Adam Khan Architects, the Brockholes Visitor Centre will float on a large pontoon foundation out in the middle of wetland area. The Brockholes Visitor Centre will be the first floating nature reserve and visitor’s centre and already on track to becoming BREEAM Outstanding certified and will be zero carbon. Brockholes is a new nature reserve, owned by the Lancashire Wildlife Trust and constructed on the remains of an abandoned quarry near Preston, England.

The new 67 acre reserve and visitor centre was made possible with a sizable grant of £8 million from the North West Regional Development Agency, which includes landscaping and habitat creation. When the reserve opens later this spring, visitors will be able to ramble along the paths, explore the habitat, bird watch and much more.

The Visitor Centre, which floats on pontoons in the wetlands area, will also be a carbon neutral event venue. The visitor center characterized by a village like cluster of tall peaked buildings with large windows overlooking the wetlands and reserve. Visitors standing on the decks of the Centre get an up close look at nature. The design phase of the buildings have already achieved BREEAM Outstanding and the project is on target to achieve Outstanding once the project has been completed as well. [via]

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