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16-469: The Lisbon Oceanarium’s conceptual design, architecture, and exhibit design was led by Peter Chermayeff of Peter Chermayeff LLC while at Cambridge Seven Associates . It is said to resemble an aircraft carrier , and is built on a pier in an artificial lagoon. Chermayeff is also the designer of the Osaka Oceanarium Kaiyukan , one of the world's largest aquariums, and many other aquariums around

32-729: A museum dedicated to the sculptor Costantino Nivola , was completed in 2005. The remodeling and expansion of the Virginia Aquarium at Virginia Beach, Virginia, was completed in 2009. Recent unbuilt projects have included a proposed Aquarium and Environmental Center for Alexandria, Egypt , the New Songdo Ecotarium in Incheon , near Seoul, South Korea , and the proposed remodeling and expansion of Nausicaä Centre National de la Mer in Boulogne-sur-Mer , France. A recent proposed Aquarium

48-1008: A principal in 1986 and further developed his interest in aquariums working with Peter Chermayeff on the Osaka Aquarium , the Tennessee Aquarium , the Aquarium of Genoa , the Lisbon Oceanarium , and the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward, Alaska . They also collaborated on unbuilt aquariums and rainforest pavilions proposed by Chermayeff while at C7A for Moscow, Russia, for Hamburg, Bremerhaven and Oberhausen in Germany, and for Tsuruhama, Osaka, in Japan. Peter Chermayeff and Bobby Poole continued their close collaboration until 2005 with Peter Sollogub under

64-414: Is a 1,000 m (11,000 sq ft), 5,000,000 L (1,300,000 US gal) tank with four large 49 m (530 sq ft) acrylic windows on its sides, and smaller focus windows strategically located around it to make sure it is a constant component throughout the exhibit space. It is 7 m (23 ft) deep, which allows pelagic swimmers to swim above the bottom dwellers, and provides

80-450: Is the world's largest nature aquarium at 40 metres long and 160,000 litres. Originally scheduled to be open 2 years, it remains open today. Peter Chermayeff LLC Peter Chermayeff LLC is a Massachusetts -based architectural firm which specializes in aquarium architecture and exhibit design, from conceptual planning to the details of final realization. The two principals, Peter Chermayeff and Bobby C. Poole, have collaborated on

96-801: The MBTA , and its simplified identity at "The T"; the United States Pavilion and Exhibition at Expo '67 ; the National Aquarium in Baltimore ; the San Antonio Museum of Art ; Charles Square , a hotel, retail, housing and office complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts; “Where’s Boston?”, a mixed media celebration and portrait of Boston for the United States Bicentennial ; the Osaka Aquarium ;

112-651: The Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga; and the Aquarium of Genoa . These and other projects led to C7A receiving the Architecture Firm of the Year award in 1993 from the AIA . Bobby Poole joined C7A in 1976 to work with Peter Chermayeff on the National Aquarium in Baltimore . Poole became the aquarium’s project architect, leading preparation of final design documents and on-site overview of construction and installation. He became

128-582: The Tropical Indian coral reefs . These tanks are separated from the central tank only by large sheets of acrylic to provide the illusion of a single large tank. Throughout the first floor there are an additional 25 thematic aquariums with each of the habitats' own characteristics. The Lisbon Oceanarium is one of the few aquariums in the world to house a sunfish , because of their unique and demanding requirements for care. Other species include two large spider crabs and two sea otters named Eusébio after

144-555: The Middle East, and Asia. Besides architecture, it operates in the areas of urban design , planning , exhibitions , graphic , and interior design . The company was founded in 1962. The original seven partners were Lou Bakanowsky, Ivan Chermayeff , Peter Chermayeff , Alden Christie, Paul Dietrich, Tom Geismar , and Terry Rankine. CambridgeSeven won the American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award in 1993, and

160-514: The design of public aquariums since 1975. Their long partnership, with focus on the design of public aquariums, began in 1975 when Bobby Poole joined Cambridge Seven Associates , which had been founded in 1962 by Peter Chermayeff together with Louis Bakanowsky, Ivan Chermayeff , Alden Christie, Paul Dietrich, Tom Geismar , and Terry Rankine. The firm's first major commission was the New England Aquarium , which opened in 1969. Peter Chermayeff

176-521: The firm name Chermayeff, Sollogub and Poole, Inc., until 2009 under the firm name Chermayeff & Poole, Inc., and since that year as Peter Chermayeff LLC. Recent completed projects have included the expansion of the National Aquarium in Baltimore , and the expansion of the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, both of which opened in 2005. Expansion of the Museo Nivola in Orani, Sardinia , a second component of

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192-598: The illusion of the open ocean. About 100 species from around the world are kept in this tank, including sharks , rays , barracudas , groupers , and moray eels . One of the main attractions is a large sunfish . Four tanks around the large central tank house four different habitats with their native flora and fauna: the North Atlantic rocky coast, the Antarctic coastal line, the Temperate Pacific kelp forests , and

208-467: The soccer player and Amália, named after the fado singer Amália Rodrigues . After both otters died (Eusébio in 2020 and Amália in 2013), two new otters (named Micas and Maré), their daughters, which had been loaned to the Rotterdam zoo were brought back. In 2015, a temporary exhibition, “Forests Underwater" by Takashi Amano opened. It is a tropical freshwater aquarium featuring a large amount of plants and

224-548: The world. The Lisbon Oceanarium has a large collection of marine species — penguins , seagulls and other birds ; sea otters (mammals); sharks , rays , chimaeras , seahorses and other bony fish ; crustaceans ; starfish , sea urchins and other echinoderms ; sea anemones , corals and other cnidaria ; octopuses , cuttlefish , sea snails and other mollusks ; amphibians ; jellyfish ; marine plants and terrestrial plants and other marine organisms totaling about 16,000 individuals of 450 species. The main exhibit

240-400: Was the principal in charge and he himself put each fish, including a sand tiger shark, in its main four-story 40-foot-wide Giant Ocean Tank containing 200 thousand gallons of salt water. Peter Chermayeff played a leading role in much of the design work through the first thirty-six years of Cambridge Seven Associates , including comprehensive design guidelines for Boston's mass transit system,

256-685: Was to be the core attraction within the proposed Parco del Mare in Trieste, Italy . A current project is the expansion of the Lisbon Oceanarium . CambridgeSeven Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. , stylized as CambridgeSeven , and sometimes as C7A , is an American architecture firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Buildings designed by the firm have included academic, museum, exhibit, hospitality, transportation, retail, office, and aquarium facilities, and have been built in North America, Europe,

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