The new exhibition plant and orchid house at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, are structures of unusual shape and design. The buildings have been erected 'inside-out' with the supporting structures outside the glazing to protect them from the corrosive conditions normally existing in plant houses. Designed by the Ministry of Public Building and Works, they are unique buildings which have no internal framework and which depend on support on an intricate external structure of steel tubes and cable from which the glass is suspended.
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