New Panda Bear exhibit
New front entrance
This is obscene!!! The Adelaide Zoo won 5, yes 5 awards at this years South Australia Architecture Awards show.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Hold onto your horses!!!! It seems Berthold Romonovich Lubetkin has risen from the dead!!!!!
Ol' C.C.
Aug. 05, 2010
SPRINGFIELD | An elephant believed to be one of the oldest in the country has died at a southwest Missouri zoo.
Dickerson Park Zoo spokeswoman Melinda Arnold says Ol' C.C. died early Wednesday in a barn for female elephants at the Springfield zoo.
Arnold says the elephant was being treated for an infection and spinal problem, but had seemed to be recovering.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that Ol' C.C. arrived at the zoo from Thailand in 1954. Arnold says her exact age wasn't known, but the elephant was believed to have been 61 years old.
The zoo says she was was the fourth-oldest elephant living in zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and was one of the 15 oldest elephants listed in the Asian elephant studbook for North America.
Courtesy of John Goodall
Abandoned Zoos
The Roaring Silence: 10 Cool & Creepy Abandoned Zoos | Design + Ideas
This is a great, great link with some wonderful defunct zoo pictures.Courtesy of Steve Robinson
Bronx Zoo
Former elephant house now the Zoo Center/Amphibian House. Look at the amazing architectural features.
London Zoo Penguin Pool
Berthold Lubetkin's famous penguin pool at the London Zoo, built in 1934. With its intertwined, spiraling concrete ramps, it was a triumph of sculptural, constructivist-flavored design. It was also rather inhospitable to the penguins, who apparently weren't as excited about the wonders of concrete as Lubetkin. Whoops!!!! It was restored in 1987(I believe) and the penguins moved elsewhere.
Anteater Club--National Zoo
Secretary Leonard Carmichael at the National Zoological Park with a baby gorilla and chimpanzee in 1961.
Anteater Club--National Zoo
Unveiling of the anteater statue at the National Zoo, March 3, 1938. From left to right are Edwin Springweiler (sculptor), Dr. Alexander Wetmore of the Smithsonian, Head Keeper William Blackburn, and Dr. William M. Mann, Director of the National Zoo.
Theodore H. Reed, Secretary Leonard Carmichael and Assistant Secretary James C. Bradley at a meeting of the Anteater's Association, National Zoological Park in 1950
Vintage Bronx Zoo
William Temple Hornaday, taxidermist(and later Director) working on a tiger model in the Taxidermy Shop located in the South Yard in 1880
Civil Works Administration Project workers construct a trail to the Bird House in the National Zoological Park in March 1934, The Bird House appears in background, Depression era programs allowed the Zoo to build and renovate many facilities.
Zebu House of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park Dec, 5 1896
Although not everybody's "cup of tea",(Jim Stockley collects circus/zoo toys, WTF!!!") I have collected architectural renderings of now defunct zoological buildings/exhibits. Above is one of 12 from my collection, that I have managed to locate, of the Zebu house at the National Zoo. A very few of them were hand colored and this one is the pride of my architectural collection. If you click on the photos, it should enlarge them.
Macaque enclosure, Zigong People's Park Zoo, Sichuan
Although historic, some exhibits needed to be shut down yesterday. Not tore down or destroyed, but surely used for a different purpose.
Clifton Zoo, Bristol England--1950
Opened in 1836 by the Bristol, Clifton and West of England Zoological Society, Bristol Zoo is the world's oldest provincial zoo. It is a Victorian walled zoo located between Clifton Down and Clifton College, near Brunel's Clifton Suspension Bridge; it covers a small area by modern standards, but with a considerable number of species. In the 1960s the zoo came to national prominence by appearing in the UK television series, Animal Magic, hosted by the comic animal 'communicator', Johnny Morris.
The zoo's official name is Bristol Zoological Gardens ('Bristol Zoo Gardens' for commercial purposes). This is not in recognition of the flower displays but recognises the first use of that title at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens. Bristol, like its earlier London counterpart, includes several original buildings which have been praised for their architectural quirks, despite being unsuitable for the care of animals; the (former) Giraffe House joins the main entrance lodge and the south gates on Guthrie Road as a Grade II listed building. The old Monkey Temple, resembling a southern-Asian temple, is now home to an exhibit called "Smarty plants", an interactive exhibit which shows how plants use and manipulate animals to survive.
The zoo also has breeding firsts, including the first black rhino born in Britain in 1958, the first squirrel monkey born in captivity in 1953 and the first chimpanzee born in Europe in 1934.
Melbourne Zoo--2009
These old feline cages are historic and every zoo should make an effort to restore and use them in some manner.
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