In 2006 Denton Corker Marshall were selected by English Heritage from a shortlist of Internationally renowned architects to design a new Visitor Centre at Stonehenge. The building was to act as a physical and emotional gateway to the landscape and the Stones by introducing the visitor to the history of this sacred place in a series of stages that are layered in the architecture. The building was to provide large scale exhibition and interpretive spaces (along with associated facilities) for the proposed 800,000 annual visitors. The design concept did not detract from the aura of the stones, yet was significant in its own sculptural form. It integrated an environmentally sensitive and unobtrusive transport system to deliver visitors to the archaeological site.