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.
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ARC/7/1
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Part of Architecture and buildings
ARC/7
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1937-1971
Part of Architecture and buildings
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.
ARC/7/3
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1959-1971
Part of Architecture and buildings
Concerning the new plans by Casson Conder and partners
ARC/7/4
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1966
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Papers regarding the presentation of the RIBA Architecture Award Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion
ARC/7/2
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1937-1944
Part of Architecture and buildings
By Tecton. Includes related correspondence and memos.