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The Plan for Greater Baghdad was a project done by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for a cultural center, opera house, and university on the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq, in 1957–58. The most thoroughly developed aspects of the plan were the opera house, which would have been built on an island in the middle of the Tigris together with ...
At its founding, it was the world's first scientific zoo. [10] [20] Originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study, it was opened to the public in 1847. [20] The Zoo was located in Regent's Park—then undergoing development at the hands of the architect John Nash. What set the London zoo apart from its predecessors was its ...
David Hancocks at Woodland Park Zoo, 1979. Photo by Helen Freeman. David Hancocks (born 5 May 1941) is a British architect and designer for zoos, natural history museums, botanic gardens and nature centres, and a former zoo and museum director.
Antwerp Zoo became the world's first zoo with okapis in 1918. Bird building (1948) Nocturama (1968) Reptile building (1901): this building looks like a Greek temple. Aquarium (1910): designed by Emile Thielens. Winter garden (1897): a tropical greenhouse. On 1 January 1983 the entire park (architecture and garden) was listed as a monument.
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The building was designed by Gustav Holland, who probably modeled the Museum Koenig after the Museum of Natural History in Berlin. Construction began in 1912, but the museum was not opened until 1934 due to World War I. The Villa is the oldest part of the Museum Koenig and houses the vertebrate department. The building was built in 1860.
The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) is the "umbrella" organization for the world zoo and aquarium community. Its mission is to provide leadership and support for zoos, aquariums, and partner organizations of the world in animal care and welfare, conservation of biodiversity, environmental education and global sustainability.
William Gibbs McAdoo, the Secretary of the Treasury from 1913 to 1918, and the Supervising Architect at the time, James A. Wetmore promoted standardization of government building design. They instituted the policy that buildings were to be designed with "scale, materials and finishes" that directly reflected their "location, prominence and income".