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Pet architecture competitions raising funds & awareness for rescue animals 🐾 Adopt, donate, and celebrate design that saves lives!
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Triangle Barkitecture was started in 2018 as a way to give back to the community while showcasing the talent of our local architects, designers, and creative minds all over the Triangle. Sponsored by AIA Triangle (American Institute of Architects), we have raised over $31,000 for local animal rescue organizations. Our Triangle Barktiecture events are held every year, and challenge designers to cre

ate unique, one-of-a-kind custom pet architecture that is auctioned off during the event and with proceeds going to our rescue partners. Triangle Barkitecture also holds special design competitions outside of our usual Barkitecture event, including Howl-o-Ween, a custom pet costume competition. We are proud to have worked with local animal rescue organizations including:, Hope Animal Rescue and Meow House Cat Rescue, Freedom Ride Rescue and Paw Prints Animal Rescue to help pets right here in the Triangle find loving homes.

08/20/2026

What is your pet dressing up as for Howl-o-Ween at Barkitecture this year? 🎃

We’re less than 2 months out from the biggest pet architecture competition with the cutest pet costume competition!

Ashley is back and already working on this year’s BOOtiful background for the Howl-o-Ween Photo Booth. Your pet will also get the chance to walk the black carpet to show off their costume and win spooky good prizes!

Entry into the contest is free, so start creating your costume now and we’ll see you October 10th at Downtown Cary Park for Triangle Barkitecture! The event kicks off at 1pm, costume contest at 2:30pm, and the Photo Booth running throughout the afternoon (except during the competition).

📷 by Ashley

08/16/2026

Hey! We’re less than 2 months from Barkitecture! 🏠🐶

Join us to celebrate all new custom pet architecture designs and to meet some adorable rescue pets.

10/10 - Triangle Barkitecture at Downtown Cary Park in Cary, NC

10/11 - Newark & Suburban Barkitecture at Czig Meister Brewery in Hackettstown, NJ.

Don’t miss out on your chance to spoil your pet and take home some Barkitecture!

Photos by Rose+Anchor

08/02/2026

We’re not kitten around! You don’t want to miss this one! 🔊🐈

We have a few more tickets available for this Saturday’s Kitten Sound Bath featuring adoptable from Connie’s Kittens at Aloft Raleigh.

The cats are demanding nothing less than a complete sell-out, so get your tickets RIGHT MEOW using the link: https://givebutter.com/barkitecture-events-kitten-sound-bath?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

All proceeds from the event will go to Connie’s Kittens and support their mission of finding loving homes for cats and kittens!

07/28/2026

Your chance to relax with kittens is almost here!

Limited tickets still available for next Saturday’s (8/8) Kitten Sound Bath at Aloft Raleigh featuring adoptable cats and kittens from Connie’s Kittens!

What is a sound bath? Grab your yoga mat and a blanket and prepare to relax* to soothing and restorative sounds in a immersive experience guided by Celestial Serenity

*We can’t fully guarantee relaxation with kittens on the loose, but we can promise cuteness and biscuit making!

Tickets are available through the link below - proceeds benefit Connie’s Kittens!

https://givebutter.com/barkitecture-events-kitten-sound-bath?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

07/26/2026

🐾 Meet the Rescues: Paws For Life NC Animal Rescue

Since 2002, Paws for Life NC has been a foster-based lifeline for dogs and cats — an all-volunteer team with one mission: save lives, give compassionate care, and help homeless animals find the families they deserve. Hundreds of animals move through their foster program every year, some healthy, some fighting just to survive. Either way, Paws for Life NC sees what an animal can become — not just its darkest moment.

That belief saved Julep. 🐾

Pulled from a shelter severely emaciated and critically ill, euthanasia was recommended. But she still had a tail wag left in her — enough for her foster family to say not yet. Weeks of round-the-clock care followed, then a lifesaving blood transfusion funded by the community around her. Today, Julep is thriving.

Paws for Life NC also runs SNIF, a low-cost spay/neuter voucher program helping reduce the number of animals who need rescuing in the first place.

Want to meet them in person? Paws for Life NC will be at Triangle Barkitecture on October 10th at Downtown Cary Park. Come meet their foster pups and cats, and learn how to foster, adopt, or support SNIF. 🏡

📍 Learn more: https://www.pawsforlifenc.org/

07/22/2026

🐾 Returning competitor and past winner alert! 🏆

We’re excited to welcome Hanbury back to this year’s Triangle Barkitecture competition!

Hanbury is known for creative designs that go beyond the ordinary. From cats and dogs to birds, you never know what they’ll dream up next.

We can’t wait to see this year’s build!

📅 October 10, 2026
📍 Downtown Cary Park

Come experience incredible pet architecture, meet local rescue organizations, and help support pets in need. ❤️🐶🐱

Photos by Rose+Anchor

07/20/2026

What is Barkitecture?? 🐾

Thank you to all our new furrends who stopped by this weekend’s Aloft Raleigh on Hillsborough Street to learn a little more about our nonprofit design competition.

We love telling people how good design makes such a big difference in our community.

Looking for where we pop up next? Get you tickets now for the Kitten Sound Bath on August 8th in Raleigh and benefitting Connie’s Kittens!

07/19/2026

🐾 Meet the Rescues: Hope Animal Rescue

Hope Animal Rescue is a 100% volunteer-run, foster-based rescue in North Carolina, dedicated to rescuing and re-homing the dogs who need it most while also helping community members keep the dogs they already have. They’re all-breed, all-age, with a special soft spot for medical-needs dogs, seniors, maternity dogs, and the ones too often passed over — bully breeds and chihuahuas especially.

That soft spot is exactly what saved Patch. 🐾

He came to a shelter at 9 months old, severely emaciated with skin issues so bad most of his hair had fallen out. Shelter staff nursed him back to health, and he found an adoptive home in January, only to be returned a month later, through no fault of his own. Going back to the shelter was hard on him, but the people who loved him fought for a second chance, and Hope Animal Rescue gave him one.

With time, patience, and a foster home that refused to give up, Patch has made a full recovery and is no longer the shut-down, emaciated dog he once was.

Hope receives no government funding, so every dollar comes from supporters like you, and since the organization is entirely volunteer-run, every donation goes straight to dogs like Patch.

Want to meet them in person? Hope Animal Rescue will be at Triangle Barkitecture on October 10th at Downtown Cary Park. Come meet their foster dogs, and learn how to foster, adopt, or donate. 🏡

📍 Learn more: https://www.hopeanimals.org/
📷 Ashley

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Fort Worth, TX
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