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Kew Gardens today

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Kew Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is a 132-hectare botanical garden in southwest London containing extensive living plant collections and numerous historic glasshouses, ornamental buildings and landscape features. The site combines large Victorian wrought-iron-and-glass conservatories, formal waters and scattered historic structures within a designed parkland and is managed as a scientific and public garden.

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Its prime

2018

Today

Restored

As it stood in 2018

What Kew Gardens looked like in its prime.

A vast Victorian-era garden landscape punctuated by large iron-and-glass conservatories: the Palm House’s domed central nave and long curved wings of hand-blown panes, and the Temperate House’s long vaulted iron-and-glass roof. Stone statues and brick structures (the Great Pagoda) rise from lawns and tree groups; a broad ornamental lake with a multi-jet fountain sits before the Palm House. Modern inserts — granite-and-bronze Lake Crossing and aluminium Hive — sit within meadow and woodland paths across formal vistas.

Step inside

8 places to explore in 2018.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Kew Gardens, including 5 interiors: palm house — central nave and elevated walkway, temperate house — central viewing gallery, princess of wales conservatory — multi-zone interior and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Palm House — approach across the lake and fountainPalm House — central nave and elevated walkwayTemperate House — central viewing galleryPrincess of Wales Conservatory — multi-zone interiorWaterlily House — central pondGreat Pagoda — upper viewing tierTreetop Walkway — canopy pathLake Crossing — granite and bronze bridge

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