Works by Karoly Kos

“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.

“In the year of Our Lord 1653 I began to have the sheepfold at Szaka built by the Estanai carpenter János Bot. I had the old house newly shingled and added a porch to it.

Among the pavilions, the Squirrel House is the smallest; nevertheless, it clearly expresses the structural hierarchy of stone, timber carpentry, and a tower roofed with shingles.

The Deer House resembles the wooden houses of by-gone years on the slopes of the Transylvanian Alps, including the traditional cellular plan-form of the Kalotaszeg/Tara Cälatei region.

'A smaller building has been designed to stand at the edge of the lake. It stands on poles above the water, with bamboo poles supporting the wide, lightweight roof surrounded by a wide corridor.

Of the pavilions designed by Kós and Zrumeczky reminiscent of the architecture of distant exotic cultures, the Giraffe House stands out as the most significant.

Similarly to Kós' view of the Kalotaszeg/Tara Cälatei region, the Zoo also is not complete without a castle ruin.

The Kangaroo House is one of the two smaller pavilions enclosing the little square in front of the Monkey House. Similar to the House of Small Rodents, it has a shingle roof.

The shingle roof of the small, single-floor building was originally decorated with elaborately carved and painted rabbits and small rodents.

'Although the Pheasant House was modelled upon its counterpart in the Berlin zoo, our own architects have followed their Hungarian inspirations in choosing a style from the home country of wood

“Thus, I acquired a small bit of land on a steep hillside in Sztána (Stana) above the station, and there I stuck a little house.” (Kós Károly: Életrajz. Szerk.: Benkő Samu.

A design competition for the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Cluj was announced in February 1909.