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Plan, section and elevation drawings relating to the construction of the ZSL Main Offices (and Library) at Regent's Park, dated January 1909 to March 1910. Included are details of elements reused from Hanover Square. Alterations to Library, 1964-1967. Some hand annotations and doodles. Architect/engineer/designer: J Belcher, Architect; Werner, Pfleiderer & Perkins Ltd, Engineers; J Jeffreys & Co, Heating and Ventilation Engineers; A Smith & Stevens, Lift Engineers. 

Minutes, memos, and correspondence planning new buildings at London Zoo.

Memos and correspondence about the construction and maintenance of various London Zoo buildings.

Working Party advising on the Snowdon Aviary.

Drawings showing the design, layout and details of several buildings built 1957-1961 at the entrance to Whipsnade Zoo (16 items). Map and plan of Whipsnade, 1996 (2 items).

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Discussions on plants for the Aviary

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

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

includes information on the opening by the Queen

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.

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. 

Architect's fees and costs of the Aviary

By Tecton. Includes related correspondence and memos.

Concerning the new plans by Casson Conder and partners

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.