The Edge - Eden's next phase.

What is the Edge?

The Edge will be a landmark new building at the Eden Project. Its scale and ambition will make it an international icon of sustainability, showing mankind is capable of amazing things. The building will be a model of cutting-edge architecture and technology, harvesting water and energy from the sun, wind, and rain to show how we all might live in the future. It will be a testament to one-planet living, built to the lowest possible carbon footprint and designed to last.

A world famous stage

Inside… there will be desert, oasis and water gardens on a scale never attempted. Underneath… a series of interlocking underground chambers will provide spaces for some of the great voices of the age – artists, writers, scientists and musicians - to work with communities and families and share the best ideas they have for improving their lives and environments, now and in the future. But there will be more to the Edge than amazing architecture and technology.

Why the world needs the Edge

Our planet is changing, bringing new challenges to the way we live. To adapt we will need the best of our imagination and creativity, our technology and science and our humanity and vision. We will need strong communities and a clear understanding of what is valuable in life. In answer to this, the awe-inspiring oasis, desert, water gardens and underground chambers inside the Edge will become somewhere to

•  inspire and explore new solutions
•  rethink our values and our goals
•  work together to create a positive future
The point of the Edge is that while resources may be limited, the imagination isn’t.

'I believe that if we get it right, the Edge could be one of the most important buildings ever built. Not because of its structural form, but because of its ambition to create a setting for asking big questions of interest to all of us: What makes humans content? What lessons from the past can inform the future? And what might great look like? The answers to most of them lie not in the realm of technology, but in the building of healthy, safe and inspired communities drawn together by a narrative for the future they can believe in. In truth it is the theatre for the development of this story that we are wanting to build.'
Tim Smit, CEO, Eden Project

Keep watching this space to find out about Eden's future plans for the Edge.