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Zoo Architecture : Buildings
Major Animal-related building projects from around the world. Modern architectural design information + images.
post updated 16 February 2026
Zoo Building Designs
Latest Zoo Buildings and Wildlife Retreats on e-architect:
August 13, 2024
Forest Trailhead, Woodland Park Zoo, Seattle, Washington, USA
Design: LMN Architects
photo Courtesy of LMN Architects
Forest Trailhead, a pavilion and forest landscape exhibit at the heart of Woodland Park Zoo, establishes a new center of gravity for inspiration and visitor education.
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19 July 2022
Taronga Zoo Wildlife Retreat, Mosman, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Architects: Cox Architecture
photos by Mike Chorley, Guy Wilkinson and David Li
Turf Design Studio, Cox Architecture and Chada have collaborated to deliver a new eco-luxe retreat in one of Sydney’s most iconic destinations. Taronga Zoo Wildlife Retreat is part of a $164.5M development program between Taronga Zoo and the NSW Government to improve the famous tourist site over the next 10 years.
Mar 16, 2022
Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, Palo Alto Arts and Recreation District, Silicon Valley, California, USA
Design: CAW Architects
photo : Marco Zecchin Photography
CAW Architects announce the completion of its latest civic project, the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo (JMZ). JMZ has been a beloved city institution since 1940, offering children hands-on opportunities to learn about science, the environment, and the natural world through a modest children’s museum, classroom space, and small outdoor zoo.
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22 November 2021
Taronga Zoo African Savannah, Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
Architects: Tonkin Zulaikha Greer
photos by Martin Mischkulnig and Tim Shaw
November 19, 2021
Pepper Family Wildlife Center, Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Design: Goettsch Partners (GP) with PJA
photo © Tom Harris
Global architecture firm Goettsch Partners announces the completion of Pepper Family Wildlife Center, the $41 million renovation, restoration and expansion of the historic lion house at Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo. The 54,000-sqft state-of-the-art facility nearly doubles the size of the previous lion habitat and provides increased transparency and a more immersive experience for visitors while restoring the architectural integrity of the original landmarked building.
16 July 2021
New Bristol Zoo Wild Place Project, Bristol, England, UK
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios / Grant Associates
image courtesy of architects practice
Bristol Zoological Society appoints two Bath-based firms – pioneering landscape architects Grant Associates and design practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBS) – to a specialist creative team that will be responsible for delivering its new vision for a world-leading zoo in the Southwest of England.
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22 Apr 2018
Schönbrunn Zoo Aquarium, Vienna, Austria
Design: 3XN & GERNER GERNER PLUS
rendering : 3XN
The design for an aquarium by 3XN and GERNER GERNER PLUS manifests itself as elegant, simple and mysterious, lying across the landscape like a great veil.
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1 Oct 2016
Islands at Chester Zoo Building, England, UK
Design: AECOM, Architects
photo courtesy Novum Structures UK
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21 Dec 2012
Ozeanium, Zoo Basel, Switzerland
Design: HHF architects & BURCKHARDT+PARTNER
image © HHF Architekten & Burckhardt+Partner AG
Basel Aquarium
Zoo Basel is embedded in the city and used as a park by residents and visitors. The redesigning of the green area Nachtigallenwäldeli and the construction of the new Ozeanium, an ocean aquarium, on the Heuwaage are bringing the zoo and the park area even closer to the city center.
16 Apr 2012
Emmen Theatre and Zoo, The Netherlands
Design: Henning Larsen Architects + Van den Berg Groep
picture from Henning Larsen Architects
Emmen Theatre and Zoo
Henning Larsen Architects and Van den Berg Groep have won first prize in an international architecture competition for a 16,000 m2 theatre building that will also comprise the entrance to the zoological park in Emmen, the Netherlands. The well-known Dutch architecture companies MVRDV and Mecanoo also participated in the competition. Emmen Theatre and Zoo is a unique cultural building that brings together culture and nature.
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Zoo Building – Recent Design
Adelaide Zoo Entrance Precinct, South Australia
2010
Design: HASSELL
photo : Peter Bennetts
Dispensing with the traditional boundary between the Zoo and its surrounds, the new entrance invites visitors to view the sights and sounds from public forecourts. This building boasts Australia’s first purpose-designed ‘green roof’ to support wildlife shelter and extensive ‘living walls’ of native plants, making it a significant horticultural park and research centre as well as a world class zoo.
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Zoo Design – Buildings
Key Zoological Architecture Projects, alphabetical:
Adelaide Zoo Giant Panda Forest, South Australia
2010
Design: HASSELL
photo : Ben Wrigley
The Adelaide Zoo Giant Panda Forest is one of only eight exhibits of its kind in the world and the first in the southern hemisphere. The design of the Panda Forest redefines the concept of a zoo in the 21st century.
Budongo Primate Experience – Chimp House, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008
Design: Cooper Cromar Architects
Edinburgh Zoo Budongo Trail – Primate Enclosure building
Copenhagen Zoo – New Elephant House, Roskildevej, Copenhagen, Denmark
2007
Design: Foster & Partners
image : Foster + Partners
Copenhagen Zoo building
Copenhagen Zoo Building – Entrance, Denmark
1996
Design: Entasis
photograph from architect studio
Copenhagen Zoo Entry Building – new entrance design
Perth Zoo Orang-utan Enclosure, Perth, Western Australia
Design: Iredale Pedersen Hook Architects
photo © Shannon McGrath
More Zoological Buildings Designs online soon.
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Zoological Building Projects
Related Zoological Building:
OZEANEUM, Stralsund, Baltic Coast, northeast Germany
2009
Design: Behnisch Architekten
photo : Roland Halbe
Ozeaneum Stralsund : Oceanographic Museum
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Zoological Architecture Projects – no images, alphabetical:
London Zoo, Regent’s Park, England, UK
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Design: various architects, including Berthold Lubetkin
London Zoo Buildings
Related Zoological Building Project
Animal Refuge Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Design: arons en gelauff architecten
photo : Luuk Kramer
Animal Refuge Centre
Buildings / photos for the Zoo Architecture – Zoological Building Design page welcome.