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Zoo building designs

Zoo buildings design and architects

e-architect select zoo building designs and animal-related building projects from around the World. For instance we post zoos architecture projects information, news and pictures. Why not source the best new zoo buildings globally?

We choose the most interesting animal-related architectural projects globally by respected designers.

The site features a range of the best new zoological garden building designs from around the world.

In addition, we post frequent information and images of significant contemporary animal park architecture on this international website. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works.

Giraffe Water Towers, Serengeti, Tanzania, Africa

April 9, 2025September 4, 2024 by Isabelle Lomholt
Giraffe Water Towers Serengeti Tanzania

Zoo Architects have embedded their concept design Giraffe Water Towers project within the Serengeti’s natural laws of survival, where the environment and animals are in balance in Africa

Categories Africa architecture design Tags Zoo building designs

The Panda Pavilions, Chengdu, China

August 6, 2024August 3, 2024 by Isabelle Lomholt
The Panda Pavilions Chengdu China

Designed by Atelier Ping Jiang, The Panda Pavilions for a group of four pandas is built to become the research lab to house and study the pandas’ behaviors and activities in Chengdu, China

Categories China architecture designs Tags Zoo building designs

Taronga Zoo Wildlife Retreat, Mosman, NSW

February 4, 2023August 29, 2022 by Isabelle Lomholt
Taronga Zoo Wildlife Retreat Mosman

Designed by Cox Architecture, the Wildlife Retreat at Taronga aims to help secure a shared future for wildlife and people by becoming one of Australia’s first 5 Star Greenstar Hotel environments in Sydney

Categories Sydney architecture designs Tags Hotel buildings architects, Zoo building designs

Edwin M. Lee Apartments San Francisco, California

February 20, 2025April 5, 2022 by Adrian Welch
Edwin M. Lee Apartments San Francisco, California

Edwin M. Lee Apartments is first building in San Francisco to combine supportive housing for both unhoused veterans and low-income families: supports a community in Mission Bay

Categories San Francisco building designs Tags Zoo building designs

Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, Silicon Valley

April 4, 2022April 4, 2022 by Isabelle Lomholt
Junior Museum and Zoo Palo Alto Silicon Valley

CAW Architects shapes a new, one-of-a-kind experience for children and adults alike that will encourage imaginative exploration at an intimate level with the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo

Categories San Francisco building designs Tags Zoo building designs

Taronga Zoo African Savannah, Sydney

January 20, 2024November 28, 2021 by Isabelle Lomholt
Taronga Zoo African Savannah Sydney

Designed by Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, Taronga Zoo African Savannah Precinct, Sydney: coordinated landscapes specific to each species – incidental, framed and curated views displaying animals

Categories Sydney architecture designs Tags Zoo building designs

Pepper Family Wildlife Center, Lincoln Park Zoo

March 3, 2024November 22, 2021 by Adrian Welch
Pepper Family Wildlife Center, Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago

Pepper Family Wildlife Center, Lincoln Park Zoo building design by architects Goettsch Partners: $41m renovation and expansion of historic lion house, restoring Chicago landmarked building

Categories Chicago architecture design Tags Historic buildings design, Zoo building designs

Snowdon Aviary Restoration, London Zoo

March 23, 2024August 9, 2021 by Adrian Welch
Snowdon Aviary Restoration London Zoo demeshing

Snowdon Aviary restoration – ZSL London Zoo building – transforming famous exhibit into state-of-the-art walk-through primate enclosure, and restoring Grade II* listed structure, peels away mesh panels

Categories London architecture design Tags Foster + Partners architects, Zoo building designs

Bristol Zoo, Wild Place Project, England

April 11, 2025July 23, 2021 by Adrian Welch
JJ-Giraffe, Bristol Zoo, south west England

Bristol Zoological Society appoint landscape architects Grant Associates & design practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios to team for world-leading zoo in Southwest England

Categories Bristol architecture buildings Tags Zoo building designs

Noah’s Ark Foundation, KwaZulu Natal

March 26, 2024May 27, 2020 by Adrian Welch
Noah's Ark Foundation, KwaZulu Natal South Africa

Noah’s Ark Foundation is a hugely ambitious conservation project in South Africa. The animal and ecological conservation park design is by DBM Architects and Image Nation. The park’s aquarium is set to be the biggest in the world.

Categories South Africa building designs Tags Zoo building designs

Panda House in Copenhagen Zoo, Denmark

August 5, 2021November 4, 2019 by Isabelle Lomholt
Panda House Copenhagen Zoo

The new home, designed by BIG, for giant pandas Mao Sun and Xing Er in Copenhagen Zoo resembles the panda’s natural habitat and creates a peaceful living environment for one of the world’s rarest mammals.

Categories Copenhagen buildings design Tags Zoo building designs

California Trail at the Oakland Zoo, California

March 17, 2024June 11, 2019 by Isabelle Lomholt
California Trail at the Oakland Zoo

Designed by Noll & Tam Architects, California Trail at the Oakland Zoo doubles the size of the zoo complex to roughly 100 acres and furthers the zoo’s mission of conservation, education and research.

Categories America architecture news Tags Visitor centre building, Zoo building designs

London Zoo Buildings: Regent’s Park Architecture

November 10, 2023October 24, 2018 by David McManus
Snowdon Aviary London Zoo

Aviary at London Zoo added to Historic England’s at risk register. Designed by Lord Snowdon and Cedric Price in 1962-65 the structure is an aluminium and steel structure on concrete foundations.

Categories London architecture design Tags Zoo building designs

Taronga Institute of Science & Learning in Sydney

July 19, 2022October 17, 2018 by Isabelle Lomholt
Taronga Institute in Sydney

As part of their 16-day tour of Australia, Fiji, Tonga and New Zealand, the royal couple visited the Institute to learn about the ground-breaking work the zoo is undertaking and to engage with conservation in a unique way.

Categories Sydney architecture designs Tags Zoo building designs

Schönbrunn Zoo Aquarium Vienna: Tiergarten

December 7, 2024April 22, 2018 by Adrian Welch
Schönbrunn Zoo Aquarium Vienna Building

Danish architecture office 3XN and GERNER GERNER PLUS from Austria together with ATT create a spectacular aquarium in Schönbrunn Zoo. It lies across the landscape like a great veil.

Categories Vienna architecture design Tags Zoo building designs

Snowdon Aviary London Regent’s Park

March 21, 2023December 19, 2017 by Isabelle Lomholt
Snowdon Aviary

Foster + Partners’ plans for the rebirth of the Snowdon Aviary building at ZSL London Zoo – transforming the historic exhibit into a state-of-the-art walk-through primate enclosure, and restoring the Grade II* listed structure.

Categories London architecture design Tags Foster + Partners architects, Zoo building designs

Bristol Zoological Society Field Research Centre

January 1, 2025November 17, 2017 by Adrian Welch
Bristol Zoological Society Field Research Centre Ankarafa Forest

Landscape architect Grant Associates has teamed up with Bristol Zoological Society (BZS) and fellow Bath based architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios) in a project to save Madagascar’s critically endangered wildlife, including the blue-eyed black lemur, and their forest habitat.

Categories Africa architecture design Tags Nature building designs, Zoo building designs
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