Penguin Pool at London Zoo 1973
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The famous Penguin Pool at London Zoo, Regent’s Park, in 1973, seen with its striking white concrete ramps curving above the water in one of the capital’s best-known modernist animal enclosures. Designed in the 1930s by Berthold Lubetkin’s Tecton group, the pool had long been celebrated as an icon of British modern architecture as much as a zoo exhibit. Here, visitors lean over the perimeter wall to watch the penguins gathered on the platforms and around the water, while the clean lines, smooth surfaces and dramatic sweeping bridges give the whole scene a distinctly futuristic feel even four decades after it was built. The surviving brick zoo buildings beyond provide a sharp contrast with the pool’s elegant inter-war modernism.
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