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Create your own Eden – tips from Eden’s architect Nick Grimshaw

Create your own Eden. Nicholas Grimshaw, architect of Eden’s famous Biomes, on 10 simple things you can do to make the world a better place.

I’d like to wish all my friends and collaborators at Eden a very happy 10th birthday and to contribute this little homily of ten things we could all do.

It’s called Doubling and Halving and it goes like this:

Halve the amount we eat,
Double the amount we walk,

Halve the amount of electricity we use,
Double our layers of clothing,

Halve the paper we use,
Double the number of trees we plant,

Halve the number of things we scrap,
Double the amount we grow,

Halve the new clothes we buy,
Double what we give to others.

Simple really! A very happy next 10 years to everybody who has ever been to Eden and everybody who is about to go.

Founder of Grimshaw Architects, Sir Nicholas Grimshaw is the architect behind the Eden Project’s iconic buildings, including the Biomes and the Core. His practice is known for creating modernist structures around the world, such as the futuristic-looking Lords Cricket Ground grandstand and the Berlin Stock Exchange.

See original designs for the Biomes in our photographic timeline of Eden’s first decade.

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