Master Plan Commissioned for NZP

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Summary

The architectural firm of Faulkner, Fryer and Vanderpool is commissioned to redesign the master plan of the National Zoological Park. The well-known Washington firm recently completed the restoration of the National Collection of Fine Arts and the National Portrait Gallery at 7th and G Sts., NW, for which they won the 1970 American Institute of Architects National Honor Award. Mr. Lester Collins, former head of the landscape architecture school at Harvard University, is to be associated with them for the landscape design, which will be stressed much more than in previous plans for the zoo.

Subject

  • Faulkner, Fryer & Vanderpool
  • National Collection of Fine Arts)
  • National Museum of American Art (U.S.)
  • National Portrait Gallery (U.S.)
  • National Zoological Park (U.S.)
  • Patent Office Building (POB)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Tiger Talk, 2/1971

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

February, 1971

Topic

  • Landscape architecture
  • Master Plans
  • Architecture
  • Repair and reconstruction
  • Buildings--Repair and reconstruction

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