The complete catalogue

1988

Burgers' Bush

🇳🇱 Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem

The first fully enclosed rainforest at this scale, since imitated by zoos around the world.

NetherlandsView entry →

1901–1905

Burggarten Palmenhaus

🇦🇹 Vienna

An art nouveau glasshouse built for the imperial court, now divided between a restaurant, a butterfly house and a public glasshouse.

AustriaView entry →

1972

Central Siberian Botanical Garden Glasshouses

🇷🇺 Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok)

More than 7,000 species, forms and varieties of tropical and subtropical plants grow in glasshouses built when the garden moved to Akademgorodok.

RussiaView entry →

Chatsworth Display Greenhouse

🇬🇧 Bakewell (Derbyshire)

It holds direct descendants of the bananas and giant water lily that Joseph Paxton grew here in the nineteenth century.

United KingdomView entry →

1951

Chișinău National Botanical Garden Glasshouses

🇲🇩 Chișinău

Badly damaged by a storm in April 2017, the garden has since rebuilt its tropical collections under glass.

MoldovaView entry →

1960

Cluj-Napoca Botanical Garden Glasshouses

🇷🇴 Cluj-Napoca

A Canary Island date palm more than 145 years old grows in the palm house, beside an East African oil palm.

RomaniaView entry →

Comenius University Botanical Garden Tropical House

🇸🇰 Bratislava

On the banks of the Danube, seven hectares of garden hold a glasshouse where palms, cacti and orchids grow side by side.

SlovakiaView entry →

1843–1869 · Palm House 1883

Curvilinear Range & Great Palm House

🇮🇪 Glasnevin, Dublin

The dome of the same Richard Turner who designed Kew's Palm House.

IrelandView entry →

2001

Eden Project

🇬🇧 Bodelva, Cornwall

A dead clay pit reborn as a rainforest under bubbles.

United KingdomView entry →

2026

Edenya

🇧🇪 Pairi Daiza, Brugelette

Opened in 2026, the world's largest tropical greenhouse houses hippopotamuses, jaguars and manatees under glass.

BelgiumView entry →

1995

Edvard Anderssons växthus

🇸🇪 Bergianska trädgården, Stockholm

Glass walls that seem to float above five Mediterranean climates.

SwedenView entry →

1933

Estufa Fria

🇵🇹 Lisbon

A greenhouse without a single pane of glass, built inside an abandoned quarry.

PortugalView entry →

2014

Giardino della Biodiversità

🇮🇹 Padua

Five biomes under glass, in the world's oldest university botanical garden.

ItalyView entry →

1880

Gliwice Municipal Palm House

🇵🇱 Gliwice

Three Canary Island date palms planted for the 1924 exhibition still grow under the same roof, through two complete rebuilds.

PolandView entry →

2011

Gondwanaland

🇩🇪 Leipzig Zoo

Europe's largest tropical hall, where you cross the jungle by canoe in the heart of Saxony.

GermanyView entry →

1833–1836

Grandes Serres du Jardin des Plantes

🇫🇷 Paris

The secret backdrop for the imagined jungles painted by Henri Rousseau, the 'Douanier'.

FranceView entry →

2000

Great Glasshouse

🇬🇧 National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne

Set on the Welsh hillside like a giant raindrop, this dome brings together six Mediterranean-climate regions of the world.

United KingdomView entry →

1859–1866

Great Glasshouse, Coimbra Botanical Garden

🇵🇹 Coimbra

One of the earliest examples of iron architecture in Portugal, restored and reopened after decades of partial closure.

PortugalView entry →

1877–1880

Great Glasshouses of the Parc de la Tête d'Or

🇫🇷 Lyon

Nicknamed the 'cathedral of glass and steel', they hold a cycad planted at the 1883 opening — the botanical garden's oldest resident.

FranceView entry →

2007

Greenhouse Complex, Central Botanical Garden of Belarus

🇧🇾 Minsk

A glass octagon where rainforest, African succulents and citrus trees have coexisted since 2007.

BelarusView entry →

1907

Großes Tropenhaus

🇩🇪 Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden

A permanent equatorial microclimate since 1907.

GermanyView entry →

1888

Hivernacle del Parc de la Ciutadella

🇪🇸 Barcelona

A cathedral of cast iron and glass born for the 1888 Universal Exposition, brought back to life in 2023.

SpainView entry →

1895–1898

Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil

🇫🇷 Paris

Still produces 100,000 plants a year for Paris's public buildings.

FranceView entry →

1701–1739

Karlsaue Orangery

🇩🇪 Kassel

A princely orangery that served as both a summer residence and a citrus house.

GermanyView entry →

1873

Kibble Palace

🇬🇧 Glasgow

A travelling Victorian glasshouse: built on the shores of Loch Long, it was dismantled and shipped by barge to Glasgow's botanic gardens.

United KingdomView entry →

1960s–1978

Klimatron, Fomin Botanical Garden

🇺🇦 Kyiv

In the depths of the Kyiv winter, a century-old palm grows until it touches the glass roof of this Soviet climatron — Ukraine's oldest palm, about 200 years old.

UkraineView entry →

2001–2003

Masoala-Halle

🇨🇭 Zurich

An entire Madagascan rainforest under a single arched roof.

SwitzerlandView entry →

1785–1788

Old Orangery, Łazienki Park

🇵🇱 Warsaw

The east wing of this neoclassical orangery still houses the court theatre built for Stanisław II August, opened on 6 September 1788.

PolandView entry →

1684–1686

Orangery of the Palace of Versailles

🇫🇷 Versailles

The largest orangery in Europe in the late seventeenth century, built to shelter more than a thousand of Louis XIV's orange trees.

FranceView entry →

1923–1925

Oranžerija du Jardin botanique de Kaunas

🇱🇹 Kaunas

The president of the young Republic of Lithuania personally laid the cornerstone of this orangery, which went on to become the country's largest greenhouse.

LithuaniaView entry →

1887

Palacio de Cristal

🇪🇸 Retiro Park, Madrid

A colonial-era greenhouse turned cathedral of contemporary art.

SpainView entry →

1891

Palm Greenhouse, Aptekarsky Ogorod

🇷🇺 Moscow

Russia's oldest botanical garden shelters, beneath its glasshouse, a cycad over two centuries old, brought back around 1807.

RussiaView entry →

1844–1848

Palm House

🇬🇧 Kew, London

The technical cradle of every great glasshouse that followed.

United KingdomView entry →

1852

Palm House

🇬🇧 Botanic Gardens, Belfast

One of the oldest surviving examples of a curvilinear cast-iron glasshouse, whitewashed every summer to protect the plants.

United KingdomView entry →

1896–1898

Palm House, Peter the Great Botanical Garden

🇷🇺 Saint Petersburg

Bombed during the Siege of Leningrad, the greenhouse saved only a handful of plants out of its thousands of species — it now shelters more than 7,500.

RussiaView entry →

1868

Palmehuset

🇳🇴 Tøyen Botanical Garden, Oslo

Oslo's oldest palm tree grew here for nearly two centuries.

NorwayView entry →

1874

Palmehuset

🇩🇰 University of Copenhagen Botanical Garden

Inspired by the Crystal Palace, this glass palace houses a palm planted as early as 1824.

DenmarkView entry →

1869–1871

Palmengarten

🇩🇪 Frankfurt am Main

Founded by former court gardeners turned entrepreneurs.

GermanyView entry →

1881–1882

Palmenhaus Schönbrunn

🇦🇹 Vienna

45,000 panes of glass for three climates under a single roof.

AustriaView entry →

1911–1912

Palmenkas (Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam)

🇳🇱 Amsterdam

An Art Nouveau jewel built to keep a brilliant botanist from leaving.

NetherlandsView entry →

1910–1911 · rebuilt 1992

Palmiarnia Poznańska

🇵🇱 Poznań

60% destroyed by World War II bombing, Poland's largest greenhouse was rebuilt without ever losing its living collections.

PolandView entry →

1913

Palmiarnia w Wałbrzychu

🇵🇱 Wałbrzych

A princely 1911-1913 greenhouse lined with volcanic tuff from Etna, at the foot of Książ Castle.

PolandView entry →

1999 · renovated 2021

Palmimaja du Jardin botanique de Tallinn

🇪🇪 Tallinn

Designed by two figures of Estonian postmodern architecture, this glass tower was once a nominee for best concrete-and-glass building of the year.

EstoniaView entry →

1972 · renovated 2025

Palmu māja, University of Latvia Botanical Garden

🇱🇻 Riga

A palm tree given in 1939 by national composer Jāzeps Vītols still grows beneath the renovated glasshouse of the largest tropical complex in the Baltic states.

LatviaView entry →

1889

Palmusali (Kaisaniemen kasvitieteellinen puutarha)

🇫🇮 Kaisaniemi Botanical Garden, Helsinki

The glass palace was reborn from seeds frozen through the bombing raids.

FinlandView entry →

1865

Pálmaház du Füvészkert de Budapest

🇭🇺 Budapest

Hungary's only “Victoria house” since 1865, immortalized in The Paul Street Boys.

HungaryView entry →

1909–1912

Pálmaház du zoo de Budapest

🇭🇺 Budapest

Originally designed for a separate urban project on Gellért Hill, the greenhouse ended up housing Budapest Zoo's miniature jungle.

HungaryView entry →

1990

Randers Regnskov (Tropical Zoo)

🇩🇰 Randers

A zoo built entirely under glass domes, devoted to the tropical forests of Asia, Africa and America

DenmarkView entry →

1955

Rastlinjak, Ljubljana Botanical Garden

🇸🇮 Ljubljana

The first greenhouse at the Ljubljana Botanical Garden, born in 1955 out of postwar reconstruction.

SloveniaView entry →

2002

Regenwaldhaus

🇦🇹 Tiergarten Schönbrunn (Vienna Zoo)

An Asian rainforest slope recreated under glass, at the heart of the world's oldest zoo.

AustriaView entry →

1998

Regenwaldhaus

🇩🇪 Krefeld Zoo, Krefeld

At Krefeld Zoo, a barrier-free tropical greenhouse where animals roam freely

GermanyView entry →

1896

Sefton Park Palm House

🇬🇧 Sefton Park, Liverpool

Funded by a local benefactor, this Victorian greenhouse survived the bombing of the Second World War.

United KingdomView entry →

1889–1891

Sera Veche, Bucharest Botanical Garden

🇷🇴 Bucharest

Modeled on the glasshouses of Liège, which were destroyed in 1944 and no longer exist, Bucharest's Sera Veche has become their sole surviving example anywhere in the world.

RomaniaView entry →

1823

Serra Carolina (Giardino d'Inverno)

🇮🇹 Palermo

A gift from Queen Maria Carolina in 1823, this winter garden shelters coffee trees and papaya trees beneath the Sicilian sky.

ItalyView entry →

2004

Serre Fata Morgana

🇨🇿 Prague Botanical Garden, Troja

Three climates and a 6-meter waterfall along a single path.

Czech RepublicView entry →

1874–1905

Serres Royales de Laeken

🇧🇪 Brussels

Open to the public for only a few weeks each year, in spring.

BelgiumView entry →

1996–2000

Serres tropicales du Jardin botanique de Liberec

🇨🇿 Liberec

The Czech Republic's oldest botanical garden (1895) gained, a century later, the country's most singular greenhouse complex, its footprint mimicking a cluster of crystals.

Czech RepublicView entry →

2003

Sheffield Winter Garden

🇬🇧 Sheffield

One of the largest temperate urban glasshouses built in Europe in a century, framed entirely in glue-laminated larch.

United KingdomView entry →

1892

Staklenik du Jardin botanique Jevremovac

🇷🇸 Belgrade

A personal gift from King Milan Obrenović to his botanical garden, the Jevremovac greenhouse has stood watch in the heart of Belgrade since 1892.

SerbiaView entry →

1891

Staklenik, Zagreb Botanical Garden

🇭🇷 Zagreb

Zagreb's greenhouse began as a marine aquarium before becoming, a century later, a jungle of palms in the heart of the city.

CroatiaView entry →

1860–1899

Temperate House

🇬🇧 Kew, London

The largest Victorian glasshouse ever built.

United KingdomView entry →

1899–1900

Victoriahuset

🇸🇪 Bergianska trädgården, Stockholm

A cast-iron dome built for a single royal flower.

SwedenView entry →

1870 · rebuilt 1937

Victoriakas (Hortus Botanicus Leiden)

🇳🇱 Leiden

Beneath a cast-iron crown, giant water lilies have reigned since 1870.

NetherlandsView entry →

1999

Wilhelma Amazon House

🇩🇪 Stuttgart

A forest path runs through a recreated Amazon rainforest where some twenty bird species fly free.

GermanyView entry →

1897

Wintertuin (Jardin d'hiver)

🇧🇪 Antwerp Zoo

The winter garden of the world's oldest zoo, where tropical butterflies sometimes flutter beneath a 19th-century glass roof.

BelgiumView entry →

1935

Yerevan Botanical Garden Glasshouses

🇦🇲 Yerevan

More than 670 tropical and subtropical species grow under glass, including avocado trees and orchids from Japan, China and Mexico.

ArmeniaView entry →

1961

Zielona Góra Palm House

🇵🇱 Zielona Góra

Built over nineteenth-century wine cellars, it holds a Canary Island date palm counted among the tallest grown under glass in Europe.

PolandView entry →

Łódź Palm House

🇵🇱 Łódź

Nearly 4,500 specimens across more than 1,100 taxa grow in the historic Źródliska park, in central Łódź.

PolandView entry →

1974

Оранжерея Ботанічного саду Львівського університету

🇺🇦 Lviv

Beneath a 24-meter glass roof, a century-old Canary Island date palm and monkey puzzle tree have survived the winters of war.

UkraineView entry →

2012

Оранжерея Московского зоопарка

🇷🇺 Moscow

A glass rotunda at the heart of Moscow Zoo, devoted to the tallest tropical trees, built in 2012.

RussiaView entry →

1910

Allan Gardens Conservatory (Palm House)

🇨🇦 Toronto, Ontario

Rebuilt as a glass dome after fire reduced the original pavilion to ashes in 1902.

CanadaView entry →

1904

Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory

🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan

The dome, originally timber-framed, was rebuilt in iron and aluminium in 1953 at a cost of about $500,000.

United StatesView entry →

1969

Bloedel Conservatory

🇨🇦 Vancouver, British Columbia

A triodetic dome perched atop Vancouver, where more than 200 tropical birds fly free.

CanadaView entry →

1966

Boettcher Memorial Tropical Conservatory

🇺🇸 Denver, Colorado

Its interlocking concrete arches form a petrified forest before visitors even step inside the tropical conservatory.

United StatesView entry →

1900

Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens Conservatory

🇺🇸 Buffalo, New York

An extremely rare Victorian tri-domed conservatory by Lord & Burnham, set in the heart of South Park.

United StatesView entry →

1960

Climatron

🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri

The world's first geodesic dome to serve as a botanical greenhouse.

United StatesView entry →

1921

Conservatoire de Longwood Gardens

🇺🇸 Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Industrialist Pierre S. du Pont personally designed this cathedral of glass to dazzle his guests.

United StatesView entry →

1878–1879

Conservatory of Flowers

🇺🇸 San Francisco

Rebuilt plank by plank after the 1995 storm.

United StatesView entry →

1988

Crystal Bridge Tropical Conservatory

🇺🇸 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

A cylindrical glass tube spanning downtown Oklahoma City, between rainforest and desert.

United StatesView entry →

1985

Desert Garden Conservatory, The Huntington

🇺🇸 San Marino, California

More than 2,200 catalogued cacti and succulents, a living laboratory attached to the largest desert garden in the United States.

United StatesView entry →

1977

Devonian Gardens

🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta

This fully glazed winter garden occupies the top floor of a downtown Calgary shopping centre and holds more than 550 trees.

CanadaView entry →

1989

Dorothy Chapman Fuqua Conservatory

🇺🇸 Atlanta, Georgia

A pair of biomes under glass — rainforest and desert — at the heart of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

United StatesView entry →

1899–1902

Enid A. Haupt Conservatory

🇺🇸 Bronx, New York

Saved from demolition by a single philanthropic gift.

United StatesView entry →

1983

Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory

🇺🇸 Fort Wayne, Indiana

More than 1,200 plants and 72 cactus varieties under glass, right in downtown Fort Wayne.

United StatesView entry →

1895

Franklin Park Conservatory (John F. Wolfe Palm House)

🇺🇸 Columbus, Ohio

The only public botanical garden in the world with a signature permanent collection of Dale Chihuly glass.

United StatesView entry →

1906–1907

Garfield Park Conservatory

🇺🇸 Chicago

Designed as a natural landscape, not a collection displayed in rows.

United StatesView entry →

1888

Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory

🇺🇸 Baltimore, Maryland

The second-oldest public glass conservatory still standing in the United States.

United StatesView entry →

1985

JungleWorld

🇺🇸 Bronx Zoo, New York

Partly funded by a zoo patron, a barless Asian “jungle” opened in the Bronx in 1985.

United StatesView entry →

1933

Krohn Conservatory

🇺🇸 Cincinnati, Ohio

An Art Deco cathedral of glass nestled in Eden Park, with its indoor tropical waterfall.

United StatesView entry →

1995

Lena Meijer Tropical Conservatory

🇺🇸 Grand Rapids, Michigan

When it opened in 1995 it was billed as the largest tropical conservatory in Michigan.

United StatesView entry →

2026

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Conservatory

🇺🇸 Richmond, Virginia

The historic conservatory has nearly doubled in size and now includes a permanent butterfly house, open year-round.

United StatesView entry →

1992

Lied Jungle

🇺🇸 Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, Omaha

One of the largest indoor rainforests in the world, opened on April 4, 1992, for $15 million

United StatesView entry →

1890–1895

Lincoln Park Conservatory

🇺🇸 Chicago, Illinois

Its fiddle-leaf rubber tree, planted in 1891, still rises beneath the glass roof today.

United StatesView entry →

1882

Linnean House, Missouri Botanical Garden

🇺🇸 St. Louis, Missouri

The oldest continuously operating greenhouse west of the Mississippi, devoted to camellias.

United StatesView entry →

2024

Longwood Gardens West Conservatory

🇺🇸 Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

The largest construction project in Longwood Gardens' history, with a roof and walls that open according to the weather.

United StatesView entry →

1894–1895

Lyman Plant House & Conservatory

🇺🇸 Northampton, Massachusetts

Ten of the twelve houses making up the Lyman Conservatory are open to visitors; the other two are horticultural work spaces.

United StatesView entry →

1915

Marjorie McNeely Conservatory

🇺🇸 Saint Paul, Minnesota

One of the last great Victorian 'Crystal Palace' greenhouses still standing in the United States.

United StatesView entry →

1964

Matthaei Botanical Gardens Conservatory

🇺🇸 Ann Arbor, Michigan

Designed by architect Alden Dow, this university conservatory is said to be the largest university-run display glasshouse in the United States.

United StatesView entry →

1964

Mitchell Park Horticultural Conservatory (The Domes)

🇺🇸 Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Three glass beehive domes, a modernist icon of Milwaukee, now under threat from age.

United StatesView entry →

1976

Muttart Conservatory

🇨🇦 Edmonton

Four tropical pyramids planted in a winter that reaches -30°C.

CanadaView entry →

1996

Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory

🇨🇦 Niagara Falls, Ontario

More than 2,000 tropical butterflies fly freely beneath its glasshouse, replenished at a rate of 3,000 imported chrysalises each month.

CanadaView entry →

1893

Phipps Conservatory

🇺🇸 Pittsburgh

A gift to the city from steel magnate Henry Phipps.

United StatesView entry →

1956

Serres d'exposition du Jardin botanique de Montréal

🇨🇦 Montreal, Quebec

Ten themed greenhouses tell the botanical story of the planet under one continuous ribbon of glass.

CanadaView entry →

1988

Steinhardt Conservatory

🇺🇸 Brooklyn, New York

A cluster of contemporary glass pavilions replaced the venerable Victorian Palm House, rotted through to its bones.

United StatesView entry →

2022

The Leaf

🇨🇦 Winnipeg, Manitoba

An ETFE greenhouse-sculpture whose unfurled roof draws on the spiral of a nautilus shell.

CanadaView entry →

1992

The RainForest

🇺🇸 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Cleveland

An 8,100 m² glass-and-granite dome where a simulated tropical storm rumbles several times a day

United StatesView entry →

Garden 1820 · greenhouse 1933

United States Botanic Garden

🇺🇸 Washington, D.C.

Born from a plant collection brought back by a Pacific expedition.

United StatesView entry →

1912

Volunteer Park Conservatory

🇺🇸 Seattle, Washington

A small Victorian Crystal Palace shipped "in kit form" in 1912, still standing on Capitol Hill.

United StatesView entry →

2026

Cali Botanical Garden Orchid Pavilion

🇨🇴 Cali

A new pavilion for orchids native to the tropical dry forest of the Cauca valley, a habitat under threat from deforestation.

ColombiaView entry →

1884

Crystal Palace of Petrópolis

🇧🇷 Petrópolis

An iron-and-glass pavilion made in France, a gift from the Count of Eu to Princess Isabel so she could grow her plants.

BrazilView entry →

Estufa das Bromélias Roberto Burle Marx

🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro

Nearly 1,700 bromeliads from the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest, in a greenhouse named after the great landscape architect Burle Marx.

BrazilView entry →

1991

Estufa do Jardim Botânico de Curitiba

🇧🇷 Curitiba

Curitiba's postcard image, inspired by London's Crystal Palace.

BrazilView entry →

Exhibited in 1889 · installed in 1897

Invernáculo du Jardin botanique Carlos Thays

🇦🇷 Buenos Aires

Award-winning at the Paris World's Fair before crossing the Atlantic.

ArgentinaView entry →

≈1920 · restored 2023

Invernáculo du Jardin botanique de Montevideo

🇺🇾 Montevideo

A greenhouse from France crossed the Atlantic to bloom for a century on the banks of the Río de la Plata.

UruguayView entry →

1928

Orchid House, Institute of Botany

🇧🇷 São Paulo

Nearly 18,000 orchids held as a scientific collection, including many Brazilian species threatened with extinction.

BrazilView entry →

Orchid House, Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

🇧🇷 Rio de Janeiro

A micro-orchid section comes with magnifying glasses, so visitors can see flowers barely two millimetres across.

BrazilView entry →

1865

Quinta Normal Glasshouse

🇨🇱 Santiago

Once the glasshouse of railway magnate Henry Meiggs, now a national monument left derelict behind its railings.

ChileView entry →

2020

Tropicario du Jardin botanique de Bogotá

🇨🇴 Bogotá

This circuit of greenhouses was built on a platform designed as an artificial wetland, in tribute to the vanished marshes of the Bogotá savanna.

ColombiaView entry →

Not precisely documented

Botanical Society Conservatory (Kirstenbosch)

🇿🇦 Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden, Cape Town

Nine biomes of southern Africa, from the arid Namib to coastal fynbos, brought together under one glass roof.

South AfricaView entry →

Founded in 1832

Jardin d'Essai du Hamma

🇩🇿 Algiers

Served as a filming location for 'Tarzan the Ape Man' in 1932.

AlgeriaView entry →

2025

Tropical Display House

🇿🇦 Durban

Opened in October 2025, this tropical house took over from the historic Ernest Thorp Orchid House, destroyed by the 2022 floods.

South AfricaView entry →

2015

Bayan Botanical Garden

🇰🇼 Bayan Palace, Kuwait City

A tropical jungle under glass within the Emir's palace grounds, even as temperatures outside reach 53°C.

KuwaitView entry →

2015

Butterfly Pavilion, Noor Island

🇦🇪 Noor Island, Sharjah

Four thousand gilded aluminum petals form the cocoon beneath which five hundred tropical butterflies flutter, facing Sharjah's waterfront.

United Arab EmiratesView entry →

2015

Dubai Butterfly Garden

🇦🇪 Dubai

Over 15,000 butterflies under climate-controlled domes in the middle of the desert.

United Arab EmiratesView entry →

2012

Flower Dome & Cloud Forest

🇸🇬 Gardens by the Bay, Singapore

Guinness World Record holder for the largest column-free glasshouse.

SingaporeView entry →

1991

Forsgate Conservatory

🇭🇰 Hong Kong

Three climates under glass nestled among the skyscrapers of Central.

China (Hong Kong)View entry →

1889–1891

Glass House de Lalbagh

🇮🇳 Bangalore

Stage for two major flower shows every year since 1892.

IndiaView entry →

1912

Glass House, Government Botanical Garden

🇮🇳 Ooty (Udhagamandalam), Tamil Nadu

Since 1848, Ooty's botanical gardens have grown flowers imported from an empire under glass, at 2,200 meters above sea level in the Nilgiris.

IndiaView entry →

1999

Glass House, Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden

🇹🇭 Mae Rim, Chiang Mai

Thailand's first botanical garden built to international standards, nestled in the mountain foothills north of Chiang Mai.

ThailandView entry →

1999

Grand Greenhouse, Kunming World Horti-Expo Garden

🇨🇳 Kunming

A living remnant of the 1999 Horticultural Expo, four climates aligned along the park's monumental axis.

ChinaView entry →

1999

Grande Serre du Jardin botanique national de Chine

🇨🇳 Haidian, Beijing

In 1999, the largest greenhouse in Asia at the time opened at the foot of the Fragrant Hills, under a roof conceived as the leaves' memory of their roots.

ChinaView entry →

1969

Greenhouse, Main Botanical Garden of Almaty

🇰🇿 Almaty

A century-old cycad and a palm house inherited from the Soviet era, at the foot of the Tian Shan.

KazakhstanView entry →

Jardin botanique de collection de Taipei

🇹🇼 Taipei

A flower-expo pavilion converted into Taiwan's most biodiverse greenhouse per square meter.

TaiwanView entry →

1984

Jindai Botanical Gardens Greenhouse

🇯🇵 Chofu (Tokyo)

A water lily pool takes up an entire wing of this large tropical glasshouse in western Tokyo.

JapanView entry →

2015

Konya Tropikal Kelebek Bahçesi

🇹🇷 Selçuklu, Konya

A butterfly-shaped glass roof shelters Turkey's largest tropical aviary in the heart of Anatolia.

TurkeyView entry →

Lloyd Botanical Garden Conservatory & Orchidarium

🇮🇳 Darjeeling

An orchidarium of 2,500 Himalayan orchids, in the highest botanical garden in West Bengal.

IndiaView entry →

2007–2025

Oman Botanic Garden

🇴🇲 Al Khoud, near Muscat

Two glass arches spanning 75 meters recreate Oman's mountains at full scale, in the middle of the desert.

OmanView entry →

2023

Rumah Kaca Anggrek Soedjana Kassan

🇮🇩 Bogor

The place where Sukarno gave Kim Il-sung the orchid that became the legendary Kimilsungia.

IndonesiaView entry →

2019

Serre du Seoul Botanic Park

🇰🇷 Seoul (Gangseo-gu, Magok)

An inverted glass saucer 100 meters across, where Seoul recreates the tropics and the Mediterranean under one roof.

South KoreaView entry →

1937

Serre du jardin botanique de Higashiyama

🇯🇵 Nagoya

The oldest greenhouse still standing in Japan, nicknamed the 'Crystal Palace of the Orient.'

JapanView entry →

1992

Serre du jardin botanique de Kyoto

🇯🇵 Kyoto

A glass silhouette designed to echo the nearby Kinkaku-ji.

JapanView entry →

2008

Serres du Jardin botanique national de Chine du Sud

🇨🇳 Guangzhou

Five of the world's climates recreated in the largest greenhouse complex in South Asia.

ChinaView entry →

2010

Serres du jardin botanique de Chenshan

🇨🇳 Shanghai

A ring of glass built around a former quarry.

ChinaView entry →

Tashkent Botanical Garden Greenhouse

🇺🇿 Tashkent

With no working shading system, staff had to paint the glass with clay to protect tropical plants from the Central Asian sun.

UzbekistanView entry →

2016

The Green Planet

🇦🇪 City Walk, Dubai

An origami-shaped glass cube in the heart of City Walk encloses a rainforest built around the largest artificial tree of its kind.

United Arab EmiratesView entry →

2022

The Orchard

🇶🇦 Hamad International Airport, Doha

At Doha's terminal, a steel grid shell suspends an entire rainforest above travelers in transit.

QatarView entry →

1986 · renovated 2019

Tropical Conservatory, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens

🇮🇱 Givat Ram, Jerusalem

A single gardener tends the mini rainforest growing, almost secretly, at the heart of Jerusalem.

IsraelView entry →

2021

Tropical Montane Orchidetum (Cool House)

🇸🇬 Singapore

A tropical mountain microclimate maintained at 16-23°C, right in equatorial Singapore.

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1999

Tropical Rainforest Greenhouse, National Museum of Natural Science

🇹🇼 Taichung

A 31-meter-high glass-and-steel bubble planted in the middle of the city, growing a jungle under a dome.

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2008

Tropical and Subtropical Greenhouses, Korea National Arboretum

🇰🇷 Pocheon (Gwangneung Forest)

A glass pyramid nestled within a forest designated a UNESCO biosphere reserve.

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1989

Yeomiji Botanical Garden

🇰🇷 Seogwipo (Jeju)

A giant sunflower-shaped glasshouse gathers six themed gardens under one glass roof, at the heart of the Jungmun resort complex.

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1988

Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome

🇯🇵 Kōtō, Tokyo

On a former landfill in Tokyo Bay, three glass domes heated by waste heat from a nearby incineration plant.

JapanView entry →

1921–1928

Auckland Domain Wintergardens

🇳🇿 Auckland

Funded by the proceeds of an exhibition, a century before their restoration.

New ZealandView entry →

1988

Bicentennial Conservatory

🇦🇺 Adelaide Botanic Garden

The largest single-span glasshouse in the entire Southern Hemisphere.

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1985

Butterfly House

🇦🇺 Melbourne Zoo, Parkville

At Melbourne Zoo, a free-flight butterfly house opened on December 11, 1985.

AustraliaView entry →

1923–1924

Cuningham House

🇳🇿 Christchurch Botanic Gardens, Christchurch

Described at its opening as "the finest building of its kind in Australia and New Zealand."

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1930

Fitzroy Gardens Conservatory

🇦🇺 Melbourne, Victoria

A greenhouse built during the Great Depression to bring a touch of color to a city in crisis.

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1930

John Hart Conservatory

🇦🇺 City Park, Launceston, Tasmania

A small Art Deco greenhouse tucked into Launceston's historic park, alongside its famous Japanese macaques

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1960

Lady Norwood Begonia House

🇳🇿 Wellington Botanic Garden, Wellington

Hailed as the largest greenhouse in the entire Southern Hemisphere when it opened, it is now fighting for its survival.

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1877

Palm House

🇦🇺 Adelaide Botanic Garden, Adelaide

Prefabricated German Victorian greenhouse from Bremen, the only known surviving example of its kind

AustraliaView entry →

1928

Pukekura Park Fernery

🇳🇿 New Plymouth

Building this fernery required hand-excavating roughly 3,000 m³ of earth from former swampland.

New ZealandView entry →

1972

Pyramid Glasshouse (Tropical Centre)

🇦🇺 Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney

The vanished glass pyramid that preceded The Calyx at Sydney's botanic gardens

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1995

Robert Clark Conservatory

🇦🇺 Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Ballarat, Victoria

The third glasshouse on the site, and the first to let visitors walk among the flowerbeds rather than view them from a distance.

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2016

The Calyx

🇦🇺 Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, New South Wales

A 21st-century conservatory designed as a camera trained on the garden rather than a mere glass shelter.

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1977

Tropical Display Dome

🇦🇺 Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha, Brisbane, Queensland

A geodesic dome planted on the heights of Brisbane to grow a jungle in the middle of the city.

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1907–1908

Winter Garden Glasshouse

🇳🇿 Dunedin Botanic Garden, Dunedin

The very first winter garden built in Australasia, entirely funded by a local benefactor.

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