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And the excitement continues with the announcement of our project, Habitat Veterinary Hospital Boise, winning one of dvm360's Hospital of the Year Award 🎉 The design for this locally owned and independent Idaho hospital was a passion project for both the client and our team. By prioritizing sustainable, natural elements and incorporating practice features that accommodate individual animal needs, we created a place of healing where well-being and care are truly the first and foremost concerns. We're proud of how Habitat's design strategically came together and continues to function, improving operations, the staff's work-life balance, and the client experience. Thank you dvm360® for the wonderful recognition! Read more about our award-winning projects and find the link to the full list of dvm360 Hospital Design Competition winners in our blog attached below. #animalcarearchitecture #dvm360hospitaldesigncompetition #animalcaredesign https://lnkd.in/gbNBAw9m

Why does veterinary hospital design matter? It's more than the aesthetics. The design of an animal care space impacts - 🐾 Healing 🐾 Stress levels 🐾 Workflow 🐾 Efficiency 🐾 Team culture 🐾 Sustainability & the environment 🐾 Overall success of a practice Check out how three forward-thinking animal hospitals, including one of our very own, raise the animal care standard with thoughtful, functional design in the dvm360® article, Award Winners Show Why Hospital Design Matters'. https://lnkd.in/gi7Q7XP3 #animalcaredesign #veterinarydesign #animalhospitaldesign #fearfreedesign #animalhospitallife Fear Free, LLC

Dust off those pens - Inktober, Architecture Edition is here! We're channeling all the creativity and digging into our love of drawing this month as our team is given a different sketch prompt every day to complete and pin up on our studio walls for all to see. Day 1 was a ‘napkin sketch’, Day 2 was ‘texture’, and today’s prompt is ‘window’. Follow along with our Inktober sketches as we share them each week and see where the imagination takes us! #InktoberArchitecture #buildingscape #InktoberArchitecture #buildingscape #indianapolisarchitecture #indianaaia #seattlearchitecture #seattleaia

Franklin Ng and Jennifer Phang from our Seattle studio spent the weekend at the Pacific Northwest Veterinary Conference connecting with some of the leading veterinarians in the area and hearing the latest insights and ideas influencing practice design. From new techniques to practice management approaches to the most pressing animal care challenges, our team soaked up the experience and are excited to bring back to the studio what they learned! #animalcaredesign #veterinarydesign #generalpracticedesign

Let the games begin! 🏆 Our Indianapolis studio went head to head in our first-ever MD Olympics yesterday. They shook, stacked, shot, and wiggled until only one team earned the gold. Click through the end of the photos to see our winning studio team and a sneak peek of the action (and lots of laughs). #officeolympics #mdarchitects #bestplacetoworkinindiana

Great design comes from a great team. This September, we're celebrating Katie, Erin, Brian, Hannah, Katie MC, Kim, Megan, Christa, and Xuanxu for their impact and milestone MD Anniversaries! Congratulations on each of your accomplishments - here's to many more years together as a team! #mdarchitects #mdanniversary #animalcaredesign #veterinarydesign

Exciting news for our animal care and veterinary clients - our team now consists of Fear Free Certified Professionals! Our firm’s mission has always been to design environments that enhance the well-being of animals and people. Becoming Fear-Free Certified takes that commitment to the next level. Fear Free, LLC equips our architects and designers with the knowledge and tools to create spaces that minimize stress, fear, and anxiety in veterinary settings. This is crucial for improving the animal’s experience and elevating the overall functionality and flow of our designs. By understanding animal behavior and fear triggers, we can create practices, specialty hospitals, shelters, and boarding and daycare facilities that are truly healing spaces—making this certification a step forward in our mission to evolve animal care through design. #FearFreeCertified #VeterinaryDesign #FearFreePets #AnimalHospitalDesign

Franklin Ng and Brittany Brown, NCIDQ IIDA were swinging for smiles last week 😁⛳ As dental care designers and architects, we're proud to have sponsored the University of Washington School of Dentistry and Pierce County Dental Society Annual Golf Tournament! Our team had a great day networking and connecting with local dentists on the greens.

Last week, part of our team made their way to Mattcon General Contractors, Inc. with Naturspire, LLC for a CANstruction cookout - and it did NOT disappoint! BIG thank you to everyone involved in our CANstruction outreach this year. We can't think of a better way to celebrate than Chuck Penaflor's cooking! #CANstruction #indianastatefair2024 #indianapolisarchitecture #indianapolisdesign

Our team is back from the specialty animal care conference, IVECCS! It was an exciting few days surrounded by the latest cutting-edge equipment, leading specialty animal hospitals, and the thousands of veterinary professionals making a difference in the industry - until next year Veterinary Emergency & Critical Care Society (VECCS)! #IVECCS2024 #specialtyanimalcare #animalcarearchitects