Revisiting Sheffield’s Winter Garden | United Kingdom

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After checking out the Peace Garden’s Queen Victoria brought me to the town’s Winter Garden, a temperate glass house home to 2,000 plants. Upon stepping in I realized I have been here before. Ah, memories start trickling down memory lane =)

This greenhouse has an intelligent Building Management System which controls fans and vents to make sure the plants are cooled in summer and kept warm in winter. The system is supposed to adapt year-on-year as changes occur. And importantly, to go with nature’s seasonal change, the bedding plants are also changed five times a year. She sure is like a woman—high maintenance! Haha.

The Sheffield Winter Garden is also the largest urban glasshouse in Europe.

There are a few cafes inside the Winter Garden which makes its a nice place for afternoon meet-ups or simply to just chill out with a cup of coffee or tea with a little bit of nature company.

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Here is the facade of the Winter Garden with the steel balls.

sheffield winter garden
sheffield winter garden

The design and architecture is really nice. Credit goes to Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects and Buro Happold Engineers. The greenhouse was completed in 2003.

sheffield winter garden
sheffield winter garden

There are 2,000 plants in the Winter Garden.


Saw this girl outside the Winter Garden in colour-blocking attire, the trend this summer and more steel balls and beautiful modern architecture outside the Winter Garden.

Travel Period: May 2011
Destination: Sheffield (South Yorkshire - England), United Kingdom

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