New London Architecture

Urban Nature Project

Planning Granted

Ambitious new project to reimagine the five-acres gardens surrounding the Natural History Museum. Key aims include increasing biodiversity, accessibility, educational opportunities, net zero carbon.

The Urban Nature Project reimagines the Natural History Museum’s five-acre gardens to increase biodiversity, accessibility, educational opportunities and the usability of the grounds. Part of a national drive to connect people with the natural world, it aims to inform and empower them to take action.

Feilden Fowles and J&L Gibbons are leading the project, which will create immersive, educational experiences through geology, planting and interpretive exhibits, as well as a new garden building and a learning and activity centre.

Resilient London: confronting climate change

Resilient London: confronting climate change

The Urban Nature Project reimagines the Natural History Museum’s five-acre gardens to increase biodiversity, accessibility, educational opportunities and the usability of the grounds. Part of a national drive to connect people with the natural world, it aims to inform and empower them to take action. The project will create immersive, educational experiences through geology, planting and interpretive exhibits, as well as a new garden building and a learning and activity centre. All surface water will be retained on site and used as part of a site wide water reuse strategy for irrigating plants, in biorentention areas, swales and infiltration basins .

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Project information

Status

Planning Granted

Borough

Kensington and Chelsea

Completion

2023


Location

8 Cromwell Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK


Team Credits

Architect

Feilden Fowles

Project Manager

MACE

Landscape Architect

J&L Gibbons


Listed by

Feilden Fowles

Last updated on

31/05/2024


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