The Old Zoo is a modern country house in

Brockhall Village Brockhall Village is a gated community in the Ribble Valley, Lancashire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Billington and Langho and is north of Blackburn. Developed during the 1990s by property entrepreneur Gerald Hitman, Brockh ...

, Lancashire, England, south-west of Clitheroe. It was finished in 2000 on the site of the old petting zoo of Brockhall Hospital. It was designed through a competition held by

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. The house was commissioned by property tycoon Gerald Hitman in 1997, and the winning design chosen out of over 120 entries was by Homa and Sima Farjadi. The New York

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

named The Old Zoo as one of 26 examples of the finest present-day house design worldwide in 1999. It has of gardens. It was featured on the

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program '' Living with the Future''. John Tempest, former RIBA vice president, called it "the best contemporary house built in England since the 1930s" and Giles Worsley, former architecture editor of the ''Daily Telegraph'' called it "the most radical house in England".

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Buildings and structures in Ribble Valley Houses in Lancashire Residential buildings completed in 2000 {{Lancashire-struct-stub