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San Antonio Zoo Africa Live!

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  • Photo courtesy of David Matthews
  • Photo courtesy of David Matthews
  • Photo courtesy of David Matthews
  • Photo courtesy of David Matthews

San Antonio Zoo Africa Live! San Antonio, TX

This exhilarating nine-acre exhibit included the design of both view and animal holding buildings. The project also included the design for the second-largest aviary in the world, an interesting cable-stayed structure enclosing a forest for both birds and Colobus Monkeys.

Lund Opsahl was also involved in the design of a number of concrete trees inside the exhibit.

Children delight at encountering a hippopotamus, nose-to-nose, in the viewing building. To restrain the hippos and their eight-foot-deep pools, Lund Opsahl designed customized thick glass, a design load overlooked in the building codes!

Other features in this nine-acre exhibit include “rock” walls, aquariums, a Nile crocodile exhibit, the Barazza Café, and a termite mound to crawl through and watch the hunting dogs at play.

Architect: Jones & Jones Architects and Landscape Architects
Contractor: C.F. Jordon

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