The French architectural firm Beckmann N’Thépé and TN Plus recently won a design competition to build their zoo concept in St. Petersburg. The designers have envisioned a series of six islands, each representing a different continent. These images are concept drawings, but show how beautiful and modern the new zoo will look. The Leningrad zoo (they kept the original name despite the city reverting to St. Petersburg in 1991) has outgrown it’s downtown setting and is moving to the outskirts of the city so that it will have room to grow. Currently it is one of the smallest zoos in Russia.
The zoo does has over 2,100 animals however, including polar bears.
