Welcome to our spring recap post! We’ve been hard at work this first quarter in 2023, exploring new ideas and striving to push the boundaries of healthcare architecture.
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The Many Hats of Architects
Architects wear many hats but when you're a healthcare designer, you never know what you might get to wear!
Samaritan Golf Scramble Fun
We had a fun time at the annual Samaritan Golf Scramble where proceeds offer patients across Benton, Lincoln, and Linn counties assistance with medical bills, transportation, prescriptions, groceries, rent,
A Look Back: Big Box Adaptive Reuse
Repurposing a former Circuit City store into a health care facility can be quite a design challenge, but was a real opportunity for Willamette Family Medical Center (WFMC
Multicare Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
Last week we attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony that was held to officially open two projects we designed at MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital located in Puyallup, WA: The Gordon
Spring Team Building 2022
There’s nothing quite like hurling an axe at a target to help you get to know your coworkers better. Every Spring we hold a teambuilding event and this
A Look Back: Replacement Clinic
We love looking back at our challenging projects and the ways we helped our clients create spaces that support their work. Whether we’re tackling a large-scale project or
Inside Active Cost Management Strategies
As healthcare architects, we’re committed to ensuring that value, cost, schedule and constructability are all basic components of the design criteria. We engage in what we call Active
Welcome Back Ben Taylor
We are pleased to announce that Ben Taylor has (re)joined Clark/Kjos Architects as a Project Manager! Ben has worked in architecture for over 17 years, beginning his career
Design Resource Highlight
We can’t say enough good things about The Center for Health Design’s Knowledge Repository resource. The Repository is a long-term, continually expanded library that brings together key resources
National Kidney Awareness Month
As National Kidney Month comes to a close, we wanted to share some insights we’ve gained from our work with dialysis clinics.One of the most important things we’ve
A Day of Pie
We love Pie Day around here and are lucky to have a couple of ‘Pie Guys’ in the office who love to bake them. Scot Jahn brought in
A Fun Way to Bring The Community Together
A vibrant, positive mural was unveiled at Kaiser Permanente’s Interstate Medical Center and we couldn’t be more proud of the outcome. This bold and bright mural project was
We Have a New Team Member
Meet one of our newer staff members, Ben Stewart. Ben holds an architectural degree from the University of Arizona and has previous experience working on healthcare, civic, and
Holiday Party 2021
We had a wonderful time this year at our office holiday party and managed to catch up on some much-needed socializing. We took over an entire restaurant space
Meet our Newest Team Members
We are so happy to be expanding our team at this time and are pleased to welcome additional staff members Charles Westerholm , Teresa Kruse, Rebecca Kiefer and
New Staff Photos
It was nice to see each other in the office again the other day as we updated staff photos. Stay tuned to see our new staff photos! Thanks PhotosbyKim
Wallowa Memorial Medial Clinic Timelapse Video
The new Wallowa Memorial Clinic located in Joseph, Oregon has been built and has begun seeing patients. In this video you can watch the facility grow from the