Zoo Design Designing for Animal Wellness As a zoo design firm, we put the animals first with a focus on their wellness. We employ a holistic approach, accommodating the animal’s physical needs and comfort while also enhancing their ability to thrive. We design exhibits and facilities that let animal species be the best and healthiest […]
Zoo Atlanta’s Complex Carnivores exhibit and Trader’s Alley complex projects include a series of new exhibits and the modernization of existing holding buildings. Complex Carnivores is a 1,400 SF, two-story viewing exhibit that includes viewing areas for small carnivores: Binturong, Fossa, Bush Dog, Sumatran Tiger, and Clouded Leopard. The 3,354 SF Trader’s Alley complex includes
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Boundless Budgies: A Parakeet Adventure, is an interactive children’s exhibit that allows zoo visitors to immerse themselves in an aviary habitat of over 3,000 Australian Parakeets. Visitors also have the unique opportunity to feed the parakeets in the main aviary space. Scope of Services Bird holding building designed for the addition of other birds, including
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Zoo Atlanta’s Grand New View includes the 4.6-acre African Savanna, which consists of new and expanded habitats for African elephants, giraffes, zebras, ostriches, warthogs, and meerkats; and the Zambezi Elephant Center: a three-story, state-of-the-art, indoor component of the elephant habitat that opened in summer 2019. Epsten Group was the zoo design firm chosen, in collaboration
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Our team had the privilege of attending the 2024 AZA Mid-Year meeting, gaining insights on conservation and education, and reuniting with colleagues from around the globe. This year had a record-breaking number of attendees with over 1,100 members convening in Memphis. Dr. Olu Oshinubi, VP and Architectural Department Manager at the Epsten Group, participated in
When we last spoke with Dr. Susan Eirich at Earthfire Institute, she shared with us her lifelong mission of Reconnection Ecology®, and our work on the Earthfire Bear Gardens had only just begun. This fall, we were fortunate to reconnect with her not just for updates on the new habitat, but for an exciting announcement:
Sarah Storey, our Marketing Coordinator, has been with Epsten Group for nearly two years, managing our social media and dozens of other processes across our Marketing Department. Sarah thrives at the center of all marketing operations, explaining that “marketing creates and updates materials to best show off and explain what we do here at Epsten
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Epsten Group was chosen as the trusted design firm to renew and renovate the Dian Fossey Fund Atlanta Office, providing the Fossey Fund’s staff with a flexible and thoughtful space for the world-changing work they do every day. We are providing design services for the existing 2,260 square feet office space located within the Zoo
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Years ago, it was the keen eye of Michael Bautsch’s younger brother that first caught sight of an abandoned Moluccan cockatoo in the expanse of their New Orleans backyard. With a mixture of curiosity and caution, they set out a dinner plate with an assortment of birdseed they had on hand. The hungry cockatoo, overcoming
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In 1963, Dian Fossey, a director of occupational therapy at a children’s hospital, took out a bank loan and combined it with her entire life savings to visit Africa for the first time. She was driven by a lifelong love for animals and a close friend’s stories of the continent’s beautiful and diverse landscapes. This
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