Monkeys to replace birds at Snowdon Aviary under revised Foster plans

摘要

Foster & Partners has unveiled revised designs for its long-anticipated refurb of London Zoo's grade II-listed Snowdon Aviary. Under the new proposals, birds would be banished from Cedric Price's famous enclosure to be replaced by a troop of monkeys. Fosters' original proposals, submitted to Westminster council in June 2017, envisaged a multi-species enclosure containing the aviary's original feathered inhabitants, colobus monkeys and a herd of miniature red duiker deer, which would have been free to roam the aviary floor. A geodesic dome monkey house would have been built to one side of the aviary with an education centre built directly beside it. But the zoo has changed its animal welfare guidelines on mixing multiple species in the same enclosure, necessitating the rethink.