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The botanic gardens in Bath rank as one of the country's finest. The well-established collection contains a wide selection of champion specimens set in a landscape with a number of Architectural features including a classical stone building known as the Temple of Minerva. This building was essentially a garden folly consisting of a single open fronted space with Doric columns providing a shelter and a visual focal point in the garden. Works to this building formed one part of a £1.8 million HLF funded restoration programme of Royal Victoria Park by Bath and North East Somerset District Council who appointed HBA as the design team leader. Over the years the building had suffered from neglect, vandalism and occupation by tramps and had become a maintenance problem for the local authority. The intention was to provide a purpose for the building as an interpretation centre which would develop the educational potential of the garden and provide facilities for both the park rangers and visitors. The building was opened in 2009 and has won a number of awards, one of which was from the residents of Bath.