The photograph shows part of the Penguin Pool at London Zoological Gardens. The Pool was designed by the Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) and his partnership Tecton, and is considered a landmark of early modern architecture in England.›
Penguin Pool

Berthold Lubetkin

Exterior · City of Westminster, United Kingdom · 1934

Photo: FeinFinch · 2014-05-19 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Original 6016×4000

The photograph shows part of the Penguin Pool at London Zoological Gardens. The Pool was designed by the Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin (1901-1990) and his partnership Tecton, and is considered a landmark of early modern architecture in England.

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