Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Sculpture, stone dolphin or orca; Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, with 248 acres (1 km2) and a mile of waterfront in the mid-coast town of Boothbay, is Maine's first and only botanical garden. After 16 years (founded 1991) of planning, building and planting, in 2007 the Gardens opened to the p...
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ftmitdome:oai:dome.mit.edu:1721.3/142207 2023-05-15T17:53:47+02:00 Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Riddell, Bruce John Schaal, Herbert R. Quinn Evans Architects D.C. Bruce John Riddell (American landscape architect, born 1959); Herbert R. Schaal (American landscape architect, firm founded 1995); Quinn Evans Architects D.C. (American architectural firm, founded 1984) Site: Boothbay, Maine, United States opened 2007 (creation) 1991-2007 wood; brick; plant material; stone image/jpeg http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/142207 unknown 234780 archrefid: 2613 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/142207 1A2-BH-CMBG-A78 © Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc. Licensed for educational and research use by the MIT community only MIT architecture botanical landscape seascape Gardens Twenty-first century image 1991 ftmitdome 2022-03-15T17:35:37Z Sculpture, stone dolphin or orca; Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, with 248 acres (1 km2) and a mile of waterfront in the mid-coast town of Boothbay, is Maine's first and only botanical garden. After 16 years (founded 1991) of planning, building and planting, in 2007 the Gardens opened to the public with numerous ornamental and theme gardens and a shingle-style Visitor Center. It is set in a natural landscape of forest, ledge, and native plants. The most-recent addition to the main campus is the Bosarge Family Education Center, which opened July 15, 2011. The two-wing structure surrounded by zoned landscaping with native plants, "rain gardens" and other sustainable elements, is being hailed as the greenest public building in Maine. It earned the highest platinum LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) rating, and is targeted to reach net-zero-energy status, indicating that it generates more energy than it uses. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/22/2012) Still Image Orca MIT Libraries Dome |
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Sculpture, stone dolphin or orca; Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, with 248 acres (1 km2) and a mile of waterfront in the mid-coast town of Boothbay, is Maine's first and only botanical garden. After 16 years (founded 1991) of planning, building and planting, in 2007 the Gardens opened to the public with numerous ornamental and theme gardens and a shingle-style Visitor Center. It is set in a natural landscape of forest, ledge, and native plants. The most-recent addition to the main campus is the Bosarge Family Education Center, which opened July 15, 2011. The two-wing structure surrounded by zoned landscaping with native plants, "rain gardens" and other sustainable elements, is being hailed as the greenest public building in Maine. It earned the highest platinum LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) rating, and is targeted to reach net-zero-energy status, indicating that it generates more energy than it uses. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 7/22/2012) |
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