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Estimate for the Formation of the Proposed Aquarium under the Mappin Terraces, 1922; Building Contract between ZSL and J Jarvis & Sons, 1922; notes on progress, 1923; details of costs, 1924; plan of new flue pipe in the Aquarium, undated.

Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the Aquarium, London Zoo, dated May 1922 to March 1923, and the remodelling, dated April to May 1956. Also included is a section blueprint of the proposed aquarium planned with the construction of the Mappin Terrace, dated April 1913. Some hand annotations and watercolour details added. Architect/engin eer/designer: Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, Engineers; Belcher & Joass, Architects; CA & AW Haward Ltd, Engineers; ZSL Architects' Department. 

Plan, section and elevation drawings and blueprints relating to the construction of the Aquarium, London Zoo, dated July 1922 to August 1923. Also included are typewritten notes on the tank specifications; one sheet giving details for doors of the tea pavillion on the Mappin Terrace, dated February 1926. Some hand annotations and watercolour details added. Architect/engin

Includes: memos from the Layout Committee; letters from Lubetkin to Huxley; costings; Contract with Tecton; copy of 'The Architect and Building News', June 1944; handwritten notes; specifications. Includes correspondence with Burnet, Tait and Lorne; and with Tecton. Also mentions other abandoned schemes by Tecton for Gibbon House, Children's Zoo, South Gate. Includes correspondence between Huxley and the Maharajah of Bhavnagar and J Ellerman about funding; with Sir Harry Boyd of the Home Office concerning Royal patronage. Correspondence with Zoo Directors in Chicago, Dresden, Stellingen about their elephant houses.

Concerning the new plans by Casson Conder and partners

By Tecton. Includes related correspondence and memos.

Architect's fees and costs of the Aviary

Licences and plans of proposed London Zoo buildings, many of which were temporary structures, or not eventually built. Includes: large map of London Zoo in 1911 with position of proposed shelter marked, and plans of shelter, 1914; plans of proposed new aviary, 1906; plan of temporary shelters for HM The King's Indian Collection, 1912; plan of Proposed Wood & Iron Addition to the Prosector's Building, 1904; layout of Poultry Culture Exhibition, 1917; fire certificate Tea Pavilion Mappin Terraces, 1914; fire certificate Main Offices, 1910; temporary buildings extension, 1934. 

The existing 1868 Elephant House at London Zoo was demolished and the foundations laid for a new Elephant House; however work stopped in 1939 because of the outbreak of World War II and the Tecton designed Elephant House was never built. A new building designed by Casson Conder and partners was completed in 1965.

includes information on the opening by the Queen

Plan of London Zoological Gardens. Undated, c 1967-1970. Hand annotation. Plan of London Zoo, dated July 1994. Photocopy. Architect/engin

2 large prints of the survey of the old lion house, originally designed by Antony Salvin Jr (1875-7) which was replaced by the New Lion Terraces in 1976

Discussions on plants for the Aviary

Plans of a Primate House that was never built. Undated, but possibly 1960s.

Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the Quarantine and Sanatorium Building, London Zoo, dated January-

Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the Regent Building restaurant, dated September 1927-February 1929. Some hand annotations and watercolour detail.

Plans for the modification of an enclosure to be filmed in a scene in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone .

The Northern Aviary at London Zoo, widely known as the Snowdon Aviary, was built between 1962-1964 and opened in 1965. Lord Snowdon was the designer of the Aviary.

Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the West Gate Services Building (Works Department), London Zoo, dated January 1955-September 1959. Some hand annotations. Architect/engin

Plan, section and elevation drawings of the West Gate Services Building, London Zoo, dated June 1951 to March 1959. Some hand annotations. Architect/engin