Pavillon with No Name ("The Peoples Gas Pavilion")- is NOT really a name- other than what appears on Google Maps.....
Chicago Architect Jeanne Gang loves wood.
At Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo,
Gang wanted to bend a kiosk /Pavillon
into the shape of a tortoise shell;
she consulted boatbuilders to learn how.
For the final structure, small laminated pieces of Douglas fir were soaked and then glued together (laminated)
to make curved ribs
that snapped together, with fiberglass pods between,
on-site.
This $12-Million Zoo boardwalk
is now thriving with flowers, native plants, butterflies, birds, turtles and fish.
Designed as an "outdoor classroom,"
the boardwalk features a unique Wood + Fiberglass
pavilion curved to mimic the shell of a tortoise.
Hard to believe it's now 9 years old.
Pavillon with No Name ("The Peoples Gas Pavilion")- is NOT really a name- other than what appears on Google Maps.....
Chicago Architect Jeanne Gang loves wood.
At Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo,
Gang wanted to bend a kiosk /Pavillon
into the shape of a tortoise shell;
she consulted boatbuilders to learn how.
For the final structure, small laminated pieces of Douglas fir were soaked and then glued together (laminated)
to make curved ribs
that snapped together, with fiberglass pods between,
on-site.
This $12-Million Zoo boardwalk
is now thriving with flowers, native plants, butterflies, birds, turtles and fish.
Designed as an "outdoor classroom,"
the boardwalk features a unique Wood + Fiberglass
pavilion curved to mimic the shell of a tortoise.
Hard to believe it's now 9 years old.