A green ark
THE promoters of the Eden Project—two gargantuan conservatories being erected this summer in an old china-clay pit in the far west of England—do not encourage comparisons with other Millennium enterprises. What with the cash-draining Dome at Greenwich, and now the wobbly footbridge over the Thames in London, these are inauspicious times for grandiose lottery-funded structures by iconic architects. Yet the signs are good that Nicholas Grimshaw's two futuristic greenhouses, winding along the bottom of the pit like a giant snail, will not turn turkey.
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