The design of the Visitor Center is seen as a seamless extension of the landscape. Nested into an existing berm, the 22,000-square-foot building is experienced as a three-dimensional continuation of the garden path system, never seen in its entirety and framing a series of views into and through the garden. Sited at Washington Avenue, the Visitor Center was conceived as a cinematic threshold that unfolds from the city to the garden, through exhibition galleries to an event space that mediates the transition outdoors to a terraced patio, spilling into the garden beyond.