A number of visitor centers have been designed and built for Sweden's most interesting nature reserves, and all are unique. Designing a building that helps guide visitors is a gratifying task for an architect. While the conditions are more open than for most building projects, the goal for these buildings is to heighten the visitors' experience of nature, and that places great demands on both their design and their execution. The Lake Takern Bird Sanctuary, with its enormous fields of wetland reeds, teeming underwater life, broad beach meadows, and open woods along the water's edge, is a kind of paradise - and not just for the birds, but also for those who come to enjoy the wealth that nature has to offer.
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