The daughter of the architect who designed London Zoo’s penguin enclosure says it may be time to “blow it to smithereens” after it fell into disuse because it gave the birds sore feet.
Zoo workers withdrew the birds from Berthold Lubetkin’s 1934 Penguin Pool after it was claimed the concrete was causing them a bacterial infection known as “bumblefoot”.
His daughter Sasha said it was “terribly sad” to see her father’s design sitting unused in the zoo.
“It was designed as a showcase and playground of captive penguins and I can’t see that it would be suited to anything else,” she told the Camden New Journal.
“Perhaps it’s time to blow it to smithereens.”
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