It is sometimes overlooked when you visit Eden that due to its organic nature, the space is constantly changing with plants growing and rainforest changing, along with the constant planning of new builds and additions to the space. People see it as a finished article, as a static exhibit of botanical excellence. Many people overlook the opportunities for further transformation of the space and the potential that the project presents.

“Some people used to ask why the Eden Project continued to be so named, long after it was completed and opened. Should it not become the Eden Center? But that would be to suggest that it was a finite object, which was never the intention. There is no once-and-for-all version.”

“If you regard it as science fiction turned fact, in the service of nature, then 2001 was a singularly appropriate time for its opening, being the year of Kubrick’s Space Odyssey. Like that film, it is an open-ended proposition.” (Pearman, Hugh. ‘The Architecture of Eden’ 2002)