Tecton Group the leaders in bringing continental modernism to Britain. The group's first commission was the 1932-1934 gorilla house in the London Zoo in Regent's Park. After the successful completion of the gorilla house, the group designed a penguin pool for the zoo, which contained a unique double helix-shaped walkway without intermediate supports for the penguins and a large swimming area. The group's successes at the London Zoo resulted in their designing two other zoos: Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire and Dudley Zoo in West Midlands. The group then designed the Highpoint I tower, an apartment complex in Highgate. The complex set a
Whipsnade Zoo female named Kia. The four younger lions are the offspring of Spike and Mashaka-Lia, and were born in April 2006. Formerly the zoo's Dolphin Pool, Sea Lion Splash is a daily demonstration in which the zoo's three trained California sea lions (two females named Bailey and Lara, and a male named Dom) perform tricks and stunts in their pool (referred to as the 'Splash Zone').In June 2015, Dom and Bailey gave birth to a male sea lion called Oscar. ZSL Whipsnade Zoo keeps a herd of nine Asian elephants, consisting of bull Emmett, cows Mya, Lucha, Kaylee, Karishma and Azizah,