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''Jungala'' Attraction Wins Thea Award-Conceptual Design by MSI02-19-09 | News

''Jungala'' Attraction Wins Thea Award-Conceptual Design by MSI

Jungala is the latest addition to Busch Gardens in Tampa, an imaginative village, nestled among towering trees, flowing waterways and stone structures. The three-story playland offers climbing nets, mazes and tunnels. Visitors can soar above the treetops on a zip line or launch into the sky from inside a 35-foot waterfall. The exotic jungle animals include orangutans and Bengal tigers.

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MSI Design, an award-winning urban design, landscape architecture and entertainment design firm, provided conceptual design through construction documentation, with collaboration from all three of its offices in Columbus, Ohio, Orlando, Fla., and Pasadena, Calif. Working under the creative direction of Busch Entertainment Co., MSI Design?EUR??,,????'?????<

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Key members of the design team included zoological architect The Portico Group, Seattle, and graphic designer Hunt Design Assoc. of Pasadena.

The Thea Awards will be presented at a formal dinner at the Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim, Calif. on March 7, 2009.