The penguin pool at London Zoo was designed in 1934 by the Tecton Group, notably Berthold Lubetkin. Ove Arup worked with Lubetkin as engineer.
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Penguin Pool, London Zoo
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Berthold Lubetkin
Berthold Romanovich Lubetkin (14 December 1901 — 23 October 1990) was a Russian émigré architect who pioneered modernist design in Britain in the 1930s.
Born in Tbilisi, Georgia, Lubetkin studied in Moscow and Leningrad where he witnessed the Russian Revolution of 1917 and absorbed elements of...
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