One lucky man, Berthold Lubektin and the Tecton Group

That's Berthold above with his hands in his trouser pockets playing "pocket pool" after signing a major deal with the Finsbury Counsel to design a complete zoo from the ground up at Warwickshire known as the Dudley Zoo, commencing in 1935-1938. It looks to me like he is smirking after a successful game of "got cha". I imagine Andy Warhol felt the same glee, at selling his "tomato can." LOL Modern art is not so much about talent or skill, as it is about finding someone who needs a purple, green, yellow, and red splashed painting to tie in the rest of the color's in their "crystal cathedral". In 1934 Berthold had been appointed as architect of the new Whipsnade Zoo at Dunstable, Bedfordshire. Proir to signing this sweet heart deal, Berthold received high fives in 1933 for designing the London Zoo Penguin Pool, which was later deemed suitable for Meerkats. The Penguin Pool was his second commission from the LZS, who had apparently been "blown away" by his brilliant Gorilla House which he and the young Tecton group were commissioned to build the year prior, in 1932-1934. The LZS was so in awe they signed him to a second commission before he had completed the first. I'll bet years later they had wished they had waited. Every thing became "unsuitable" two decade later. The first commission for the London zoo Berthold teamed up with concrete and structural "meister" Ove Arup to create what I believe were later used as models for anti aircraft bunkers. LOL I would hate to have to tell London Zoo and Dudley "you should have seen this coming," but when you consider that what brought him to the attention of the London zoo in the first place was his 1927 commission from circus artist Roland Tutin, to design an acrobatic set for a circus nightclub called the Club Trapèze Volant, it is hard not to rub it in a little bit. LOL God Bless the "creative genius" of a Zoological Architect. They reap the fame and fortune, and the directors, curators, keepers and staff are left with the blame and alibing and fingerpointing of "bad people" by the activists.