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Diergaarde Blijdorp

Diergaarde Blijdorp

Also known as Blijdorp

Landscape architect

Sybold van Ravesteyn

Year

1940

Style

Modernism

Type

landscape

Rotterdam's zoo was relocated to its current Blijdorp site in 1940 (the move was completed just weeks before the German bombing destroyed the original city-center location). The landscape, designed by Sybold van Ravesteyn, combines…

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Diergaarde Blijdorp
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  1. 1940

    Original construction

    Sybold van Ravesteyn

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