Rocky Shores exhibit construction at Utah's Hogle Zoo is progressing right on target! Check out the latest photo below.

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Here is what the Rocky Shores exhibit site at Utah's Hogle Zoo looks like today. Scroll through the blog posts to see the previous photos and keep checking back for progress updates.

Wondering what's happening over at the Denver Zoo? Get yourself up to speed by reading Denver Zoo finishing world-class expansion for elepants and friends by Electa Draper of The Denver Post. Just click the link below.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19294110

Check out the progress at the Rocky Shores exhibit site at Utah's Hogle Zoo. Everything is right on target for the Summer 2012 opening! Come back next month for another construction photo.

To see more construction photos, visit our Facebook page.

CLR would like to congratulate all of the 2011 AZA Honors and Award Winners.

We are proud to be part of the design team for two of this year’s award winning exhibits, Museum of Living Art (Top Honors) at the Fort Worth Zoo and Giants of the Savanna (Significant Achievement) at the Dallas Zoo. Museum of Living Art is a state of the art Herpetarium that brings guests eye-to-eye with many exotic and endangered amphibian and reptile species. Giants of the Savanna is an 11-acre, mixed species, multi-habitat that creates various animal enrichment opportunities and encounters, as well as, panoramic vistas to enhance the visitor experience. 

We would also like to congratulate the Denver Zoo on being recognized with Top Honors in the Green Award Category. CLR is thrilled to help facilitate Denver’s green vision in our work together on Asian Tropics (opening Spring 2012).

Please visit our Facebook page for photos of these award winning exhibits.

How well did you do on the 2011 AZA Annual Conference Photo Game created by CLR?

CLICK HERE FOR THE ANSWERS

Construction is well underway at Utah’s Hogle Zoo for a new and exciting Rocky Shores exhibit that will feature polar bears, brown bears, seals, river otters, sea lions, and bald eagles! With an anticipated opening in early Summer 2012 we wanted to share the progress with you. 

The foreground of the photo will become the main visitor path winding down the hill from the east of the otter and eagle habitats then south toward the seal and sea lion cove overlook. On the south end of the seal and sea lion pool will be the amphitheater where visitors will get up close underwater views of the agile animals swimming. When completed, the Underwater View Building will immerse Zoo visitors in an underwater world where polar bears, seals and sea lions can be seen swimming adjacently.

Check back next month to see Rocky Shores’ progress when we post an updated construction photo!

To see more construction photos check out our Facebook page.

Philadelphia Zoo Unveils Treetop Trail, A New Innovative Elevated Exhibit Allowing Primates to Travel and Explore

(July 28, 2011) - The Philadelphia Zoo is excited to unveil its newest exhibit, perhaps its most innovative to date. Treetop Trail is a system of elevated passageways and lookouts situated among the treetops for primates to travel and explore.  
 

We design for a very unique clientele, and while we would absolutely love to invite some of them to visit our Philadelphia office, the building manager wasn’t sure that the freight elevator could accommodate Willy, the 13,000 pound bull elephant from The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.  While it is unfortunate that we cannot give Willy a tour of our office, we were very pleased when two ambassadors came in his place.  Steve Taylor, director of the Cleveland Zoo, and Brian Zimmerman, Executive Director of Cleveland Metroparks joined us along with the Schultz and Williams’ Team at our center city office for a day of strategic planning meetings.  While they were here, they were able to meet the entire staff, collaborate on ideas for the future of the Cleveland Zoo, and even venture out to the famous Reading Terminal for a traditional Philadelphia Cheesesteak!  We enjoyed having the opportunity to host this workshop, and we are looking forward to the next one!

As spring slowly rolled in we decided it was time to give our office a little bit of a makeover.   As a tribute to our LEED gold certification we wanted to transform our space using materials that have been invading our lawns, gathering in our model room, hiding in boxes, and filling our recycling buckets.    Our theme was simple.  We spend our days dreaming up creative, innovative and immersive exhibits for our animal friends, so why not make one for ourselves?  We wanted to create “exhibit” spaces that would make visitors curious, feel inspired, or even laugh.  We made trees with cut up cardboard boxes, a zen garden for our friend Coco, a bamboo forest to bring a mural to life, and craft-paper vines that have taken over our walls.  Sculptures and figurines, hand-made and collected through our travels, have been displayed throughout our office and much fun has been had arranging and rearranging them (and then rearranging some more) based on our experience of how animals interact in the wild.  We have had a wonderful time enhancing our habitat, and if you are ever in Philadelphia we would love to give you a tour!

If you want to see more of our creations check out our pictures on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philadelphia-PA/CLR-Design