20 JUNE 2022
We are delighted to team up with Square Feet Studio and Elizabeth Ingram Studio to work on this project in Atlanta, GA. This steel structure was salvaged from the former Stein Steel and Supply Company complex and is being reassembled as a massive pavilion canopy. Quirky planting to follow soon.
12 JUNE 2022
David spent last week in Philadelphia with a great crew of MLA students from Auburn’s Landscape Architecture Program as they finally installed their thoughtful and award winning PHS flower show exhibit titled ‘Mixed Shade, Much Joy.’ They’ve been working with the incredible Abra Lee over the last semester to design and build an exhibit that celebrates the work of Harlem Renaissance poet Effie Lee Newsome, specifically highlighting her 1941 children’s book of poetry Gladiola Garden. These students did such good work throughout all stages, and it was a joy to watch them create such an immersive atmosphere.
12 APRIL 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: When trees fly... Redbud and Black Gum trees descended from the sky at the Porch House.
08 MARCH 2022
Introducing Cypress Nature Preserve in Montgomery, AL. Along with Auburn University, we’ve been advocating for this place to become a nature preserve of some sorts. Fingers crossed that we’re getting closer. This place is amazing.
19 FEBRUARY 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Gravel mock-up for the work-road has been installed. This mock-up may not seem like much, but it represents momentum finally building after 6 years of advocacy and design work for Auburn’s Transformation Garden at the Historic Old Rotation.
10 FEBRUARY 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Back in the Alabama Meadows Research plots for a series of prescribed burns... thank you Dr Kush and F Randle for the careful choreography.
29 JANUARY 2022
FIELDWORK UPDATE: A group of us spent this incredibly chilly morning clearing fire lines around the prescribed burn areas in the Alabama Meadow research plots. Fingers crossed that we’ll be able to burn this coming week as long as the weather permits.
17 DECEMBER 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: The sliding doors were installed today at Porch House.
01 NOVEMBER 2021
We’re delighted to announce that HILLWORKS received three design awards from the Alabama Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA]. Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory received a Merit Award for Design, the Woodland Garden received a Merit Award for Design, and the Alabama Meadows Research Plot [research collaboration with the notorious Emily Knox] received an Honor Award in Research.
12 OCTOBER 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Captured the basins at Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory working diligently during a decent rain last week. To our constant surprise and delight, no standing water remained after 24 hours, and the spunky plants are no worse for the wear.
02 OCTOBER 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: We are experimenting with growing season burns at the meadow research plots at Auburn’s Mary Olive Thomas Demonstration Forest [seeded in April 2020]. Thank you, Dr Kush and Dr Barlow, for the continual guidance and support.
02 SEPTEMEBER 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: We got some drone shots of Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory. Still waiting for some plant growth in the big-ol’-basins but it’s looking pretty good.
05 AUGUST 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Big Bluestem [Andropogon gerardi] and Indiangrass [Sorghastrum nutans] are really blooming profusely in the meadow research plots at Auburn’s Mary Olive Thomas Demonstration Forest.
16 MAY 2021
Check out Montgomery’s Grove Court Apartments. Originally built in 1947, this complex gathered over seventy living units around three distinct courtyards. We’re excited to be a part of the design team to explore their next iteration.
14 APRIL 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Auburn’s Transformation Garden [formerly known as Field Lab No. 1] now has a few vertical garden systems in the mix. It’s beginning to come together.
29 JANURARY 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Tupelo gaggle at Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Lab is going strong.
23 JANUARY 2021
FIELDWORK UPDATE: We are excited to see that the ‘surgical’ demo has begun at the Pratt Gin project. This complex began manufacturing cotton gins in 1833 and continued until 2013. The scale and patina of this place is incredible, and we can’t wait until the proposal starts to get implemented.
04 DECEMEBER 2020
FIELDWORK UPDATE: And so it begins… Construction has started for the Porch House Project in Opelika, AL.
24 OCTOBER 2020
FIELDWORK UPDATE: First rain after planting the basins at Auburn’s Structural Lab.
26 JUNE 2020
We are delighted to hear that the Discovery Center received an Honor Award for General Design from the PA-DE Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects [ASLA].
29 FEBRUARY 2020
FIELDWORK UPDATE: HILLWORKS is back in the DeKalb County Meadow for its first burn today. Here’s to a new regime! Thank you Dr Kush, F Randle, and M Bass for making it happen.
19 DECEMEBER 2019
FIELDWORK UPDATE: The bones of the four big-ol’-basins at Auburn’s Advanced Structural Engineering Laboratory are coming together nicely.
15 NOVEMBER 2019
The American Institute of Architects Pennsylvania recognized the Discovery Center with a Bronze Award.
20 OCTOBER 2019
David joined Auburn University Professor Emily Knox and the first-year graduate landscape architecture students on a field studies trip to Seattle, Washington. Visits included Beacon Food Forest, Discovery Park, Ballard Locks & Fish Ladder, Bloedel Reserve, Seattle Public Library + Freeway Park, GGN studio, Gas Works Park, Pike Place Market, Berger Partnership Studio, and Olympic Sculpture Park.
26 SEPTEMBER 2019
HILLWORKS is thrilled to receive four design awards from Alabama ASLA this year. The Pratt Mill received an Honor Award in Analysis and Planning, Georgia Tech Campus Center received a Merit Award in Analysis and Planning, Resting Pulse Brewery received a Merit Award in Design, and Dekalb E-911 Facility received an Honor Award in Design.
13 AUGUST 2019
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Drone shots of E-911 Facility; Phenology update on the Alabama Meadows in Dekalb County with drone shots.