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Sheffield's impressive Winter Gardens is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the UK during the last hundred years and will create a stunning green world in the heart of the city.

 
Appearing next to the Millennium Galleries is the Winter Gardens.The gardens contain 150 different species of plants, and 2,500 plants in total.

There are also shops as part of the development. A florist, a specialist plant shop, a private gallery and a coffee shops complement the gardens.

The gardens are 21m high, 70m long and 20m wide. They cover 2,500 square metres of glazing, using 128 roof vents. Inside there are 150 species of plants and 2,500 plants in all. This is the first winter gardens to be commissioned for more than 100 years. The Winter Garden and Millennium Galleries were designed together by the same team, Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects. They were conceived to be a cultural route running through the middle of the city, surrounded by other buildings, leading to the Peace Gardens.

Sheffield's impressive Winter Garden is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the UK during the last hundred years and will create a stunning green world in the heart of the city.
 

Michael Palin - author, traveller, former Monty Python and Sheffielder - is so taken with this awe-inspiring project that he agreed to be its patron:
"The Winter Garden is absolutely beautiful. The scale of it is very powerful. I love the use of timber. You tend to see an awful lot of concrete in city centres around this country and it's nice to see that this is made of wood and seems a very organic building.
I love the fact that it's close to the Millennium Galleries, which is another very striking building. It's great that people will be able to move between the two. In the past there have been buildings in Sheffield that have not been that great and it's fantastic that there are two examples of top class architecture so close together in the city centre. It's wonderful."
The Winter Garden is part of the city's 'Heart of the City' project - a £120 million scheme to regenerate Sheffield's city centre. It stands alongside the award-winning Peace Gardens, Millennium Galleries and Town Hall.
 

Work on this city centre landmark began March 2002, following the demolition of the Town Hall extension, known locally as 'the eggbox'.