The Difference is Night and Day!

A key piece to the Iowa State Fair Master Plan was completed in time for the State Fair in 2017 and what an impact! K/O Architects designed the dynamic entrance canopy and ticket gate and provided fairgoers a highly visible and streamlined welcome point to...

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Master Planning looks at Entire Des Moines Property!

Several years ago K/O completed the initial Phase 1 Fairground Master Plan for the Southwest Quadrant of the Iowa State Fair located in Des Moines, Iowa. Fair Master Planning was precipitated by the fact that the grounds were woefully short on parking for their many...

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Box Elder Fairground Master Planning

The Fair Master Planning of the Box Elder County Fairgrounds in Tremonton, Utah ultimately resulted in the fair design of a master plan which phased the new elements into 3 – approximately $10 million budgets, each to be conceptually complete over 5 years for an...

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Fairground Horse Arena Complete!

The almost 30,000 square foot Arena and Exhibition Building is now complete at the Steele County Free Fairgrounds in Owatonna, Minnesota (see rendering above). Also referred to as Phase One of a 100,000+ Square Foot Multi-Purpose Livestock facility; it is a pre-engineered metal building which...

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Artful Equine Housing! Or just a Barn!

[caption id="attachment_1842" align="alignnone" width="600"] Custom Horse Stalls line the inside of this equestrian stalling facility[/caption] Just finishing construction, this Equestrian Barn was originally conceptualized as an eight stall addition to an existing equine facility housing several Champion and Grand Champion animals. As the Horse Barn Architect...

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Equine Arena and Horse Barn Architecture

Equine Arena and Stalling Barn Under Construction K/O is currently watching the construction of an Equine Arena and Stalling Barn recently designed for a private client. As the Architect of this Horse Arena we sized it to have 100 feet x 72 feet, with an attached...

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Hot Rods and K/O Architects

[caption id="attachment_1646" align="alignnone" width="600"] Whoa, This is a Car Lovers Dream Come True![/caption] Our latest post features a few snapshots taken from a recent photo shoot at one of our recently completed projects in the Des Moines, Iowa area. This is a bit more than your...

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Dig Our New Digs! K/O Architects Office!

[caption id="attachment_1622" align="alignnone" width="600"] Wow! What a difference Carpet, and Paint, and Glass, and Plywood, and Plastic, and...

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Spencer Chapel – William Penn University

[caption id="attachment_383" align="alignnone" width="600"] K/O Condition Survey of Spencer Chapel - William Penn University[/caption] From the Report by K/O "The chapel is structurally in good condition; with some exterior masonry and most if not all of the exterior wood trim in need of a complete restoration. Given...

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