Japanese macaque exhibit

I see they visited Japan many times to learn how to replicate their architecture in painstaking detail...

This is just very weird theming in general for an animal enclosure.

@The Cassowary I really dislike this enclosure a lot. Too artificial and bare.

This, this, this is amazing.... Its almost like a parody of a zoo exhibit

This exhibit is, well what I mean is, that is to say, ....ok I give up. There are no words!

At least it matches the zoo entrance
Zoo entrance - ZooChat

@Arizona Docent Beautiful entrance.

@RatioTile
Maybe the moat and concrete style, but the housies and lil towers are (attempts of) representing the portuguese classical architecture

I remember having seen pictures of renovations in this exhibit here in zoochat, and I think it's a little better now than in this pic.
Edit: found it, at least it seems to have some dirt and logs right now: Japanese Macaque (Macaca fuscata) at Jardim Zoológico de Lisboa, Portugal* - ZooChat

@RatioTile Japan looks like a miniature golf course?

A little bit of context: This enclosure is a city monument, designed in 1940s by Raul Lino to house monkeys. Now it has Japanese macaques but in the past, other species were here like hamadryas baboons. It does not intend to represent the natural habitat of the animals, obviously. It was made to resemble a typical Portuguese village where the monkeys are its inhabitants. As a classified monument, it cannot suffer deep changes although I don't know why the zoo still houses animals in this enclosure. Nevertheless, it is still quite an attraction because everyone from every generation remembers it and every time it visits the zoo wants to see it.