Elephant and Rhino Pavilion

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  • The Elephant and Rhino Pavilion was built as a successor to Anthony Salvin Junior's Elephant and Rhinoceros House of 1868-69. Plans for a new building had been prepared by Tecton in 1939, but the outbreak of war prevented their implementation. The site was chosen in 1950 and the building became the principal southern focus of Casson's 1958 redevelopment plan. It was built 1962-65, brief by Desmond Morris, Curator of Mammals; Sir Hugh Casson, Neville Conder and Partners, architects; John Mowlem and Company Limited, building contractors. Paddock pool added in 1971. Rhino moat altered 1988. It is Grade II listed.

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  • The Buildings of London Zoo

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          Correspondence with architects on the proposed Elephant House, London Zoo
          ARC/7/1 · File
          Part of Architecture and buildings

          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.
          Reed, Stanley
          SEC/10/1/16 · File · 1936
          Part of ZSL Secretaries

          Correspondence between Julian Sorell Huxley and Stanley Reed regarding The Maharajah of Bhavnagar, plans for a new Elephant House at the London Zoological Gardens and a a request for a financial contribution from The Maharajah
          Rice and Son
          SEC/10/1/17 · Item · 1939
          Part of ZSL Secretaries

          Letter from the building contractors Rice and Son, to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding the construction of the new Elephant House
          Ridley, Jasper
          SEC/10/1/18 · Item · 1939
          Part of ZSL Secretaries

          Letter from Julian Sorell Huxley to Jasper Ridley regarding the plans for the new Elephant House and an approach to Lord Howard de Walden regarding a donation towards the construction
          Smith, David Seth-
          SEC/10/1/22 · File · 1937
          Part of ZSL Secretaries

          Letters from David Seth-Smith to Julian Sorell Huxley regarding plans for the proposed new Elephant House and meetings of the Elephant House Committee