The Eden Project charity has announced its plans for its first ecological attraction in Scotland, which is set to be built on a disused industrial site in Dundee.
Eden Project Dundee will transform the city's former gasworks on the banks of the River Tay, close to Kengo Kuma's V&A Dundee, into a large verdant park.
The feasibility study for the scheme has been conducted by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and Nicoll Russell Studios with Eden Project's in-house creative team.
Attraction will be "powerful symbol of regeneration"
Eden Project Dundee is expected to centre around a series of walled gardens, built within the existing tall brick walls on the site.
According to the charity, this will offer a striking contrast to the area's industrial heritage ? mirroring the design of the first Eden Project attraction in Cornwall by Grimshaw. Top image: Eden Project Dundee will be located in a former gasworks. Above: the original Eden Project opened in Cornwall in 2001
"The existing tall brick walls on the site suggested to the Eden team the potential to create walled gardens, making for a striking contrast to the industrial heritage of the gasworks," the charity said.
"Eden envisages this as a powerful symbol of regeneration, echoing the project's home in Cornwall which is located in a former clay quarry."
According to Peter Clegg of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, the aim is to also make the scheme net-zero carbon and offer "a haven for biodiver...