The Old Zoo
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The Old Zoo is a house in Brockhall Village, finished in 2000 on the site of the old petting zoo of Brockhall Hospital. It was designed through a competition held by RIBA
. The house was commissioned by property tycoon Gerald Hitman in 1997, and the winning design chosen out of over 120 entries was by Homa and Sima Farjadi. The New York Museum of Modern Art
named The Old Zoo as one of 26 examples of the finest present-day house design worldwide in 1999. It has 15 acres (60,702.9 m²) of gardens.
It was featured on the BBC Four program Living with the Future
. John Tempest, former RIBA vice president, called it "the best contemporary house built in England since the 1930s" and Giles Worsley, former architecture editor of the Daily Telegraph called it "the most radical house in England".
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. The house was commissioned by property tycoon Gerald Hitman in 1997, and the winning design chosen out of over 120 entries was by Homa and Sima Farjadi. The New York Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
named The Old Zoo as one of 26 examples of the finest present-day house design worldwide in 1999. It has 15 acres (60,702.9 m²) of gardens.
It was featured on the BBC Four program Living with the Future
Living with the Future
Living with the Future is a television documentary series first broadcast on 15 January 2007 on BBC Four. It is a follow-up series to Living with Modernism, also on BBC Four....
. John Tempest, former RIBA vice president, called it "the best contemporary house built in England since the 1930s" and Giles Worsley, former architecture editor of the Daily Telegraph called it "the most radical house in England".