The refurbishment of original structure, designed by Cedric Price with Frank Newby and Lord Snowdon in 1962, provides a new walk-through home for the zoo’s troop of Colobus monkeys and includes a new education and community center...
The circular shape of the Panda House solves the problems arising from the complex conditions of the site, at the intersection of walkways between Copenhagen Zoo’s elephant, monkey, and Nordic fauna sections. At the same time, the circularity present
The zoo located in the historical Parc de Vincennes was one of the first in the world to do away with cages and present animals in open habitats. Having closed for some years, it has reopened, completely renovated and renamed Paris Zoological Park.
Endemic to the tropical jungles of Borneo and Sumatra, orangutans are animals with high cognitive abilities and the strength and skill to manipulate, activate, operate, and deconstruct mechanisms. Unlike gorillas and chimpanzees, orangutans do not li
The new space for lemurs – the smallest existing primates, originally from the African island of Madagascar – was to encourage controlled interaction between these animals and visitors to Melbourne Zoo. With this in mind, the project relied on two im
The six ravens kept since time immemorial at the Tower of London are bound to British royalty to such an extent that legend has it that if these birds “are lost or fly away, the Crown will fall and Britain with it.” Utmost care has therefore gone int
The heart of the new Parque de Vallmora near Masnou (Barcelona) is a large equipped promenade that also serves as a grand balcony or mirador over the city. One of the most unique facilities built in the park is an ‘insect hotel’: a place that provide
Designed to shelter the new Kaeng Krachan Elephant Park that is part of Zoo Zurich, this wooden structure is colossal. It is a dome of anisotropic geometry that mimics its environment, a forest recreated within the facility with the purpose of obtain
Visitors arriving at Copenhagen airport will soon be able to discern a sea-facing volume of unmistakable organic forms. It is the so-called Blue Planet, the city’s new aquarium. With capacity to hold seven million liters of water, the building contai
Gondwanaland, the name of the large structure that has recently extended the inner-city Leipzig Zoo, makes reference to the original continent that emerged from Pangaea and configured South America, Africa and South Asia, geographic regions whose liv
With a strong social component and the prized resource that water is in a leading role, a modest project for landscape regeneration also seeks to foster a sense of community.
Amid ecological pomp the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II, inaugurated Copenhagen Zoo’s brand new Panda House, a pavilion carried out by Bjarke Ingels at a cost of 24 million euros. Beyond evoking yin and yang, the unique circular indoor-outdoor enclos
It was designed by Bjarke Ingels, the renowned Danish architect, and cost $24 million to build. It was inaugurated by Queen Margrethe II, Denmark’s reigning monarch. And it now accommodates a celebrity couple with peculiar eating habits and an almost
En el Bois de la Bâtie, un frondoso parque público de Ginebra, los arquitectos de Group 8, junto con la ingeniería Guscetti y Tournier, han construido un aviario cuya estructura se asimila a los troncos de los árboles. Las medidas contra la expansión
Uno de los zoos más grandes de los Países Bajos, el Burgers’ Zoo de Arnhem, cuenta con una nueva atracción llamada Rimba (‘selva’ en malayo) en la que se recrea un ecosistema tropical del Sureste Asiático y donde pueden verse tigres de Sumatra, leopa
