by Nevin Lash



This photo taken by John Bierlein ended up in my inbox recently. John was part of the design team from Woodland Park, when I worked with CLR in Philadelphia in the 1980's. Seems like a long time ago - and it was. The project started in 1988 and opened in 1994 as Northern Trail. This was one of five or six major projects taken on during the second wave of ground breaking Woodland Park Zoo project outlined in the Long-Range Plan by David Hancocks/Jones and Jones (J&J) approved in 1976. But when you think back before the 1976 plan, there wasn't anything like it in the world. All zoos were made by Architects - who know how to handle a buildings program, but the site is insignificant in most cases, and that was the case in most zoos prior to 1976. It really came to light, that a zoo project must to managed by a multi-disciplinary team including and sometimes led by Landscape Architects.
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