Basic Site Details

Alternative Names

The following alternative names are associated with this building/design:
	Name	Current name?	Notes
	Edinburgh Zoo

Building Type Classification

The building is classified under the following categories:
	Classification	Original classification?	Notes
	Zoo

Street Addresses

The following street addresses are associated with this building:
	Address	Main entrance?	Notes
	Corstorphine Road

Events

The following date-based events are associated with this building:
	From	To	Event type	Notes
	1929		Plans approved	Warrant granted by Dean of Guild Court

People

Design and Construction

The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column.
	Name	Role	Partnership Group	From	To	Notes
	(Sir) Frank Charles Mears			1929
	Mears & Carus-Wilson			1929

Clients

The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design:
	Name	Notes
	Zoological Society of Scotland

Related Buildings, Structures and Designs

Parent Structure and Site

This structure is related to the following parent structure or site (click the item to view details):
	Building name	Notes
	Scottish National Zoological Park	The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland was founded in 1909 by Thomas Gillespie, an Edinburgh lawyer. Within four years the Society has sufficient support and funding to purchase an 85 acre site to the west of Edinburgh, for £17,000, with assistance from Edinburgh City Council. Gillespie took for his model the so-called 'open zoo' at Hamburg, designed by Carl Hagenbeck. Instead of bars and cages, Edinburgh Zoo was designed from the outset to have large, open enclosures, using ditches and moats to separate the animals from the visitors. By April 1913 Patrick Geddes, and his son-in-law Frank Mears had prepared a Report and preliminary plans for laying out the zoological gardens, and work on construction of the pools for polar bears and seals, aviaries, and enclosures for wolves, monkeys bars and lions was commenced immediately. Edinburgh Zoo was opened to the public on 22 July 1913, and was incorporated by Royal Charter later that year.

References

Periodical References

The following periodicals contain references to this building:
	Periodical Name	Date	Edition	Publisher	Notes
	Builder	15 February 1929			p360 - warrant granted