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General Project Information

Architectural Credit:

Architect: Ayers Saint Gross

Associate Architect: Tao + Lee Associates

Location: St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Project Substantial Completion Date: 5/8/2023
Program type(s): Public Assembly – General
Total Site Area (gross sq. ft): 216,458
Total Building Area (gross sq. ft): 91,782
Project substantial completion date: 5/8/2023
Climate zone: 4A
Project site: Previously developed land
Project team: Architect: Ayers Saint Gross
Interior Designer: Ayers Saint Gross
Environmental Graphics: Ayers Saint Gross
Associate Architect: Tao + Lee Associates
Construction Manager: Alberici
Landscape Architect: Michael Vergason Landscape Architects
Local Landscape Architect: Arbolope Studio
Engineer - Civil: Civil Design, Inc
Engineer - Structural: KPFF
Engineer - MEP/FP/T: IMEG Corp
Code Consultant: CCI
Food Service Consultant: Ricca Design Studios
Lighting Consultant: Randy Burkett Lighting Design
Acoustic Consultant: McClure Engineering
Accessibility Consultant: Cohen Hilberry

Project Overview:
The Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center provides Missouri Botanical Garden with a new gateway for their more than one million annual visitors. This transformative vision for the Garden reflects its mission “to discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life.” Inspired by the Garden's history and its extensive plant collection, the building blurs boundaries between indoors and outdoors, creating an immersive experience by incorporating elements of the natural world. The visitor center integrates seamlessly into the Garden’s arrival sequence, serving as part of a series of thresholds through which the Garden reveals itself.

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