Penguin Pool, London Zoo

Penguin Pool, London Zoo

Year

1934

Architect

Type

building

Lubetkin and Tecton's 1934 pool turned a zoo enclosure into a manifesto for British modernism: an elliptical basin crossed by two interlaced reinforced-concrete ramps that thread above the water and read more as theater set than animal cage …

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