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London Architecture Festival 08: Guided Tour of Kew's Tree Top Walkway

12 June 2008

As part of the London Festival of Architecture 08 Marks Barfield is giving a guided tour of our latest project, the tree top walkway at Kew Gardens.  We are running the event with other practices presently working at Kew to give a guided tour of contemporary architecture currently on site.

The tour will present a mix of completed buildings and on site projects, and will encompass the following:

Herbarium and Library Wing – Edward Cullinan Architects
Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway – Marks Barfield
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art – Walters and Cohen
Alpine House – Wilkinson Eyre
Jodrell Laboratory Extension – Wilkinson Eyre 

As aprt of the tour Julia Barfield will take guests 18m high into the tree canopy for a tour of the tree top walkway and rhizotron. 

The tour is free, although participants must arrange their own entry to Kew Gardens (£13, see http://www.kew.org/visitor/priceskew.html for more information). Places are limited, to reserve a space please contact Ailsa Forsyth on 020 7428 9751 or ailsa@waltersandcohen.com

A meeting place, tour route and timing of the tour will be confirmed nearer the time.