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Treehouse at the Philadelphia Zoo

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Title	Treehouse at the Philadelphia Zoo
Title.Alternate	George D. Widener Memorial Treehouse
Creator.Persons	Venturi, Robert
Creator.Entities	Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown
Notes	Built 1985. Project Description: A magical world for children is constructed within a century-old building. Many artists participated in the creation of six separate environments in the Treehouse — including a primordial swamp, a milkweed meadow, a beaver pond, a honey comb, a ficus tree and a swamp.
Description	Detail of child in egg
Subject.Persons	Venturi, Robert Izenour, Steven
Subject.Entities	Philadelphia Zoological Garden Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown
Subject	Zoos Treehouses
Location	Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Title.Series	New Directions in Public Architecture: Part I
Collection Title	Architecture and Urban Planning (1800-present)
Publisher.Location	Seattle, WA
Publisher	Art on FIle
Date.Published	c1990
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/archt_copyright.html
Collection information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Full resolution	Volume4\ARCI-04-06-03.jpg http://0-contentdm.unl.edu.library.unl.edu/fullres/Architecture_1800-_3/Volume4\ARCI-04-06-03.jpg