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[[Image:Eden project tropical biome.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Inside the tropical Biome]]
 
The '''Eden Project''' is a large-scale [[ecosystem|environmental]] complex near [[St Austell]], [[Cornwall]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]. The project was conceived by [[Tim Smit]] and designed by the architects [[Nicholas Grimshaw|Grimshaw]], with [[Davis Langdon]] carrying out the project management. Although relatively new, it has quickly become one of the most popular [[visitor attraction]]s in the [[United Kingdom]]. The complex includes two giant, [[Transparency (optics)|transparent]] [[dome]]s, each emulating a natural [[biome]], that house [[plant]] [[species]] from around the world. The first emulates a tropical environment, the other a warm temperate, Mediterranean-type environment. The project took 2½ years to construct and opened to the public in March 2001. The project is ongoing, and part of its purpose is to see how the different [[biome]]s develop over time.
 
'''The Core''' is the latest addition to the site and opened in September 2005. It provides the Eden Project with an education facility, incorporating classrooms and exhibition spaces designed to help communicate Eden's central message about the relationship between people and plants. Accordingly the building has taken its inspiration from plants, most noticeably in the form of the soaring timber roof, which gives the building its distinctive shape.
 
Grimshaw developed the geometry of the copper-clad roof in collaboration with a sculptor, Peter Randall-Page, and Mike Purvis of structural engineers SKM Anthony Hunts. It is derived from [[Phyllotaxis]], which is the mathematical basis for nearly all plant growth; the "opposing spirals" found in many plants such as the seeds in a sunflower's head, pinecones and pineapples. The copper was obtained from traceable sources, and the Eden Project is working with [[Rio Tinto Group|Rio Tinto]] to explore the possibility of encouraging further traceable supply routes for metals, which would enable users to avoid metals mined unethically. The services and acoustic design was carried out by [[Buro Happold]].
 
== Views of the Eden Project ==