PART ART MUSEUM, part reference library, the Brooklyn Botanical Garden (BBG) today holds over 10,000 taxa of plants and receives nearly 1 million visitors from around the world each year. Although officially founded in 1910, it was only on its centennial celebration that the garden broke ground on a visitor’s center for use in welcoming them. designed by New York-based Weiss-Manfredi architecture/landscape/Urbanism and completed in the spring of 2012, the center provides a new gateway to the garden’s collec- tions with a serpentine pavilion of glass and steel that has both the structural performance to meet the site’s technical demands and the form to honor the garden’s histori- cal topography—all while providing much-needed visitor resources.