Author Archives: Polly Gould

Revisit: Penguin Pool in London, UK by Tecton

By Polly Gould 21 February 2022 Revisit

A monument to captivity, Tecton’s penguin enclosure at London Zoo failed to care for its confined occupants and live up to its utopian vision

Penguin Pool in London, UK by Tecton

15 July 1934 By AR Editors

Penguins have a dignity of carriage envious human beings have tried, but…

AR February 2022: Animals

31 January 2022 By AR Editors

La Shed Architecture | Paradigma Ariadné | Hopkins Architects | Bangkok Project…

Editorial: animal crossing

1 February 2022 By Manon Mollard, Eleanor Beaumont, Max L Zarzycki and Ellen Peirson

The AR’s February issue explores how we build around, for and against…

13th century drawing of humans controlling various animals

Outrage: humans are animals too

2 February 2022 By Crispin Sartwell

As we address the ecological disaster of our making, humans must remember…

Animal infrastructures: building across species

3 February 2022 By Valeria Meiller

Human systems have made use of other species for millennia, but spatial…

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Cattle and colonialism: the animals that built Sydney

8 February 2022 By Fiona Probyn-Rapsey

Runaway herds of cattle shaped the progress of the British colonisation of Australia, where…

Contained: sites of animal confinement

16 February 2022 By Dinesh Joseph Wadiwel

The carceral confines of agriculture systems, zoos, labs and homes keep all…

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Elephant centre in Krapho, Thailand by Bangkok Project Studio

17 February 2022 By Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

Structures designed for both elephants and people tower above human heads, leading…

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