One of the biggest temperate glasshouses to be built in Britain in a century, and the largest to be created in a European city centre, the project was part of the original Heart of the City scheme and followed the completion of the neighbouring Millennium Gallery.
Costing £5.5 million, and designed by architects Pringle Richards Sharratt, it contains more than 2,000 plants which live beneath soaring timber arches made of larch.
These pictures show the construction of the Winter Garden in the early 2000s, and serve as a reminder of the undertaking's ambition and scope.
1. A valuable link
The garden was intended to form an important part of the improved pedestrian route between the railway station and the city centre. Photo: Picture Sheffield
2. A patchwork of funding
The garden was funded by the Millennium Commission, the European Regional Development Fund, English Partnerships and Sheffield Council. Photo: Picture Sheffield
3. Award-winning
In November 2007, the Peace and Winter Gardens beat London's South Bank to win the Royal Institute of British Architects' Academy of Urbanism 'Great Place' Award. It was deemed to be an 'outstanding example of how cities can be improved, to make urban spaces as attractive and accessible as possible'. Photo: Picture Sheffield
4. High praise
Writing in The Guardian in 2003, Jonathan Glancey said: “Rooted, in part, in the majestic shopping and promenading galleries threaded through Milan and Naples in the late 19th century, Sheffield's Winter Garden and Millennium Gallery are a generous urban ideal realised in deft modern design by the architects." Photo: Picture Sheffield