The Missouri Botanical Garden’s Jack C. Taylor Visitor Center in St. Louis is ENR’s Best of the Best in the Cultural/Worship Category at the national level, having previously been named the ENR Midwest Project of the Year for 2024 and ENR Midwest Best Project in the Cultural/Worship category.

The project also earned the Grand Award in the 2024 ACEC Missouri Engineering Excellence Award competition and a first place St. Louis Chapter ASHRAE Technology Award for new commercial buildings.   

 The new LEED Gold visitor center (pictured) houses an event center, gift shop, meeting spaces, restaurant with garden views, auditorium, and conservatory. The project also included the renovation of the historic Linnean House—the oldest continuously operated public greenhouse west of the Mississippi. IMEG provided mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, and technology design for the project, which expanded the facility’s ability to handle a higher visitor flow and host community events, indoor weddings, and world-class seminars on botany.  IMEG submitted the nomination.  

Read the IMEG case study and a Metropolis feature about the project.