Sackler Crossing
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Taking Burton’s
Palm House, completed in 1848, as the central point of a notional
circle, the master plan draws a sweeping arc bounded at either
extremity by important through-views and bisected by William Nesfield’s
great Syon Vista. This grand curve establishes a new primary
circulation axis which will allow visitors to traverse the breadth of
the landscape whilst maintaining the tranquillity and existing
structural integrity of the gardens. The Sackler Crossing spans a
section of the Arc’s route which lies across water.