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In the early 1980s this was a unique approach to the design of public aquariums, as the two largest public aquariums at the time in the United States—Boston's New England Aquarium (1969) and Baltimore's National Aquarium (1981)—focused on "magnificent coral reef exhibits or big sharks", and displayed few local species.
Tokyo Sea Life Park. Tokyo Sea Life Park (葛西臨海水族園, kasai-rinkai-suizoku-en) is a public aquarium located in Kasai Rinkai Park in Edogawa Ward, Tokyo. Its predecessor was the Ueno Aquarium, which was set up in Ueno Zoo. The building was designed by Yoshio Taniguchi. [1] The aquarium is accredited as a Museum-equivalent facility by ...
Living Color Aquariums (also known as Fish Tank Kings on National Geographic Wild [1]) is a custom acrylic tank manufacturing company with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. [2])They design and manufacture custom acrylic aquariums, water features, acrylic art, and themed exhibits. Over their history they have crafted a wide range of ...
Fish would be viewed through a long acrylic tunnel. [4] The aquarium opened in 1985 after 10 months of construction. Tarlton developed a new method of building an acrylic tunnel by taking large sheets of clear acrylic, cutting them to size and heating them in an oven until they took the shape of the mould. Some of the sheets weighed over one ...
The site selected for the aquarium was a group of abandoned warehouses at the foot of Chattanooga's Broad Street, which was acquired for $4.5 million by the RiverCity Company, a nonprofit development agency created in 1986 to implement the Tennessee Riverpark Master Plan, and later deeded to the aquarium. [25]
The Seattle Aquarium is a public aquarium in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on Pier 59 on the Elliott Bay waterfront. The aquarium opened in 1977 and is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The aquarium consists of three buildings. Its original buildings at Pier 59 and Pier 60 have six major exhibits.
The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium was founded in 1997 by Brent Andersen, a Utah native and marine biology graduate from the University of California Santa Barbara. [5] It is a regional attraction with over 850,000 annual visitors. The initial plan was to build a 90,000 square feet (8,400 m 2) aquarium that showed ecosystems from around the world.
The Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium (沖縄美ら海水族館, Okinawa Churaumi Suizokukan), formerly known as the Okinawa Ocean Expo Aquarium, is a public aquarium located within the Ocean Expo Park in Okinawa, Japan. The aquarium's Kuroshio sea tank was the largest aquarium tank in the world until it was surpassed by the Georgia Aquarium in 2005.