The Maryland Zoo
Renovation
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Project: Arctic Adventure Exhibit
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2008 Potomac/Maryland Chapters of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Merit Award
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Description: The Arctic Adventure
Exhibit includes the design of habitat for several animals,
such as the Snowy Owl, Arctic Fox, and the ever-popular
pair of Polar Bears. The Polar Bear enclosure is the
centerpiece of the exhibit and includes two pools with
major rockeries and a Tundra Buggy. Underwater viewing
of one of the pools offers a unique vantage point of
the bears at play.
Planting within the exhibit has made extensive
use of native plants specifically chosen to depict the
character of the animals' natural Canadian tundra habitat.
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