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15 JULY 2019
 HILLWORKS is happy to announce that Alejandro Ramos has joined the design team. Alejandro originally hails from Quito, Ecuador, but recently graduated from the MLA program at Auburn University.

13 JUNE 2019
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Phenology update on the Alabama Meadows in Dekalb County with drone shots.

20 MAY 2019
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Research at the Alabama Meadows in Dekalb County HILLWORKS-style. Wonderful work day spent in the meadows removing biomass.

26 APRIL 2019
 Join us in Downtown Opelika Alabama to celebrate the opening of the Resting Pulse Brewery.

23 APRIL 2019
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Blue Creek Iron Works fence is installed at Resting Pulse Brewery.


14 APRIL 2019
 FIELDWORK UPDATE: seat wall mockups installed at Resting Pulse Brewery.

01 APRIL 2019
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Trees are being installed at Resting Pulse Brewery today. Thank you Thurlow Farm for these quirky trees.

3 MARCH 2019
Congratulations Faunsdale Community Center on the grand opening today.

28 FEBRUARY 2019
 Dekalb County's E-911 Facility receives an Honor Award from the Alabama Chapter of the AIA.

25 FEBRUARY 2019
David visits the Discovery Center with Auburn University’s Landscape Architecture students to check out Fairmount Park.

12 FEBRUARY 2019
David came out to Hale County to have a conversation about creating a flexible ground condition and “bushes” with the Moundville Pavilion at Rural Studio.

22 NOVEMBER 2018
David is off to Quito, Ecuador to participate in the 2018 PanAmerican Biennial of Architecture. In addition to serving as a jury member for the bi-annual design competition, David is also delivering two talks, one about Preservation Park and 274 Bragg Ave, and the other titled “ENGAGING TIME: Local Stories, Site Histories, and Regional Phenologies” that describes the design approach of the studio.

06 NOVEMBER 2018
We’re off to Faunsdale, Alabama to lend a helping hand to Rural Studio’s Faunsdale Community Center crew. Fifteen Redbud trees [Cercis canadensis] arrive today at the community center to be planted into a sweet grove. If you’re in the area, bring a shovel!

01 OCTOBER 2018
HILLWORKS is happy to announce that Debbie Ku has joined the design team. Debbie comes to HILLWORKS from Charlottesville, Virginia, where she once worked with David at D.I.R.T. studio back in the 2000s.

28 SEPTEMBER 2018
Join us in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park to celebrate the grand opening of the Discovery Center.

18 SEPTEMBER 2018
David is sneaking off to Auburn’s Rural Studio again. He claims that he’s ‘leading a landscape design workshop’ but we know that he’s just having fun with the folks at Rural.

06 SEPTEMBER 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Gravel paths are being installed at Auburn’s Field Lab No. 1.

31 AUGUST 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Footings are being poured for Resting Pulse Brewery in Opelika, Alabama.

26 JULY 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: We admit it. We get so worked up about the strangest things. One of our wildflower meadows is being hydroseeded today and we can hardly contain our excitement.

15 JUNE 2018
After months of preparation, David is finally in Ecuador with students from the Graduate Landscape Architecture Program at Auburn University. They’ll spend the next four and a half weeks in the Galapagos Islands exploring landscape design strategies that appropriately engage the 30,000 residents currently living in the archipelago.

24 MAY 2018
Milwaukee's Preservation Park within the Historic Pabst Brewery Complex is awarded a 2018 Mayor's Design Award, which praises projects that contribute design excellence to the urban landscape of Milwaukee.

10 MAY 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Site visit to chalk out the full scale layout of Resting Pulse Brewery.

10 MAY 2018
Construction finally begins for the Resting Pulse Brewery renovation in Opelika, Alabama.

04 MAY 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: The Dekalb County wildflower meadow was installed today using the seed drill method.

04 MAY 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: The wildflower meadow at Dekalb County E-911 is finally being seeded today. Check out that seed drill.

14 APRIL 2018 
Georgia Tech’s Campus Center proposal was awarded a Merit Award for unbuilt work by the Georgia Chapter of the AIA.

22 MARCH 2018
We want to wish our very own Amanda Foran a hearty “y’all come back now, ya hear.” She’s heading off to the other end of USDA’s hardiness zone map to live in Maine. We’ll miss you, but wish you the absolute best.

16 MARCH 2018

We're delighted to see the Discovery Center emerging from the earthen levee in East Fairmount Park. We were fortunate to work with Ground Reconsidered and DIGSAU Architecture on this project and look forward to it’s opening.

08 MARCH 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Grading finally beings at Field Lab No. 01.

28 FEBRUARY 2018
Milwaukee's Preservation Park within the Historic Pabst Brewery Complex receives a Design Merit Award from the Wisconsin Chapter of the ASLA.