a great piece of architecture

Villanueva Pavilion
Architect: Juan de Villanuev
Built:1781
This building is located in Spain, Madrid's Royal Botanical Garden and was built as a greenhouse. The garden itself was designed over 250 years ago, and now houses over one million specimens. Villanueva Pavilion now houses cultural activities and exhibitions. I chose this building to represent a great piece of architecture due to its significance to me. When I visited this building on the 21st August 2009, it had an exhibition of architecturally designed hospitals. This immediately grabbed my interest as I was at that time working in the health profession, but it also reminded me of how I was interested in architecture in high school. It was at this point that I started to think about pursuing architecture instead. (The bust in the pond is of Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature)