Libeskind's indoor rainforest plans find a potential home in Southport
- Published: 11 February 2008 12:36
- Author: Richard Waite
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- Last Updated: 11 February 2008 12:53
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Southport has emerged as the likely site for Daniel Libeskind's on/off indoor Amazonian rainforest proposals, which have yet to find a home.
Consortium Rainforest Ventures (RV) unveiled Libeskind as the high-profile architect behind the scheme – a £75 million Eden Project-style development earmarked for the North West of England – back in 2006.
However, plots in Blackpool and on Liverpool's derelict Festival Gardens site were both ruled out and now Marine Park, the former Pleasureland site in Southport, is reported to have become the frontrunner for the tropical theme park.
Meanwhile, the RV consortium set up by investor John Woodman and Robin Lock, an advisor on the design of the Eden Project's biodome in Cornwall, have unveiled images of another proposed rainforest complex in Wales.
Designed by Gloucester-based Limbrick, the Borneo Rainforest (pictured) will sit on the Dragon International Studios near to Bridgend, South Wales.
The competition-winning scheme will feature a new hotel and will offer visitors the chance to walk along 'a choice of dramatic suspended tree canopy walkways, meandering paths along rocky precipices and gorges'.
