Norwegian Pavilion (Budapest Zoo and Botanic Gardens)
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“So that the rocky hill should not appear desolate, we place a small Norwegian house on its southern slope, along the axis of the great avenue of trees. This house is intended not as a dwelling but as a small-scale hunting museum. Upon entering, the public will see furs, polar bear skins, the simple hunting tools of northern peoples, traps and steel snares, walrus skulls with tusks, and so forth. Anyone who has seen such houses standing along the edges of the fjords—smoothly assembled of timber and painted red or pure white—will surely recall them fondly, along with the exemplary cleanliness in which they gleam both inside and out, and the modest flowers blooming from pots in every window. All of this belongs to their character.”
— Adolf Lendl: The New Zoo, Magyar Építőművészet, Vol. VII, no. 6, 1909, p. 7.
The log-constructed house was meticulously reconstructed between 1998 and 1999 on the basis of the decayed original timber structure. In place of the original shingle roofing, a green roof—shown on the surviving plans—was executed.
Bibliography
Lendl Adolf: Az új állatkert. In: Magyar Építőművészet VII/6. 1909. (1–16.)
Györgyi Dénes: Az állatkertről. In: Magyar Építőművészet, IV/10-12. 1912. (1–44.)
Gall, Anthony: Kós Károly műhelye – tanulmány és adattár. Mundus Magyar Egyetemi Kiadó, Budapest, 2002 (172–173.) [1909-1h]
Fabó Beáta–Anthony Gall: „Napkeletről jöttem nagy palotás rakott városba kerültem”. Kós Károly világa 1907–1914. Budapest Főváros Levéltára, 2014 (111.)
