Our proposal envisages an open Summer Garden as a counterpoint to the enclosed historic Winter Gardens. This new garden is conceived as a square grid orientated to the geometry of the Winter Gardens with a superimposed 12-degree axis aligned to the Glasgow city centre grid. Temporary timber pergolas delineate the demolished wing galleries of the original Winter Gardens.

Within the new garden is a pavilion acting as a condenser of histories, both passive and active, listening and listened to, addressing the Winter Gardens, the park and the city beyond, absorbing, gathering and re-releasing the aural energy of inhabitants past and present. This pavilion is permanently open, permeable and receptive to visitors and is formed of two elements; the shelter and the totem. The shelter provides protection from the elements for visitors, collects rainwater for re-use in the garden and collects sunlight via photovoltaic cells to power the totem which comprises a 'collecting' side and a 'transmitting' side.