Correspondence with the Architect's Department regarding Zoo 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.
Correspondence, memorandums and papers regarding the Cotton Terraces and modernisation of the Giraffe House
Plan showing the details of the base and base wall of the Raven's Cage at London Zoo
Concerning the new plans by Casson Conder and partners
Papers regarding the presentation of the RIBA Architecture Award Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion
By Tecton. Includes related correspondence and memos.
Architect's fees and costs of the Aviary
Plan and section drawings relating to the remodelling of the Giraffe House, London Zoo. Some hand annotations. Architect/engin