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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.

08 FEBRUARY 2018
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Class in session…we were taken to school today on warm season grasses by Dr. Delaney. Thank you for the tremendous sit visit for Auburn’s upcoming Field Lab.

23 JANUARY 2018
HILLWORKS is thrilled to be part of the team working on Auburn University’s Advanced Structural Testing Lab.

19 DECEMBER 2017
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Foggy day for a site visit in North Alabama. Checking out sit preparations for a future 6-acre meadow.

17 NOVEMBER 2017
Milwaukee's Preservation Park celebrates its public opening within the Historic Pabst Brewery Complex.

16 NOVEMBER 2017
FIELDWORK UPDATE: Excited to be onsite at the Historic Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee over the next couple of days to see a handful of projects at various stages. A few weathering well after five or six years, one under construction, and one celebrating its public opening tomorrow.

01 NOVEMBER 2017
 Excited to share that we have just completed presenting our vision for the new Campus Center at Georgia Tech. One of 3 invited teams to envision this new 300,000 SF, $100m facility, we presented months worth of work to the leadership of GT. We are deeply thankful for and proud of our design-build team partners DPR Construction, Mackey Mitchell Architects, HILLWORKS, FRONT, Transsolar, Newcomb & Boyd, Uzun+Case, Eberly, and many others. Also so enjoyable to be “up against” (in the friendliest of ways) dear friends and mentors Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects. Alas... and here is the rub... after a full day of presentations and deliberations came to conclusion, we must congratulate CooperCarry/Workshop as the selected team for the job - well done! We look forward to sharing the full vision we developed with the entire Georgia Tech community when the models and boards go on public display, along with a lecture we [bldgs] will be giving this spring at the College of Design.

27 OCTOBER 2017 
The Discovery Center is awarded a 2017 Honor Award (Unbuilt) by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the AIA.

19 OCTOBER 2017 
The Discovery Center is awarded a 2017 Honor Award (Unbuilt) by the Philadelphia Chapter of the AIA.

12 OCTOBER 2017
 FIELDWORK UPDATE: So exciting to see the steel sidewalk panels for Preservation Park being water jet by W Haut. Thank you for the photos, Dennis Stapleton.

12 OCTOBER 2017
Auburn University's Field Lab No. 01 project received the Award of Honor in Analysis and Planning from the ASLA Alabama Chapter.

02 OCTOBER 2017 
David ventures over to Auburn University's infamous Rural Studio to share recent work and lead a two-day landscape workshop.

29 SEPTEMBER 2017 
The Discovery Center, a joint venture between the National Audubon Society (Audubon Pennsylvania) and the Philadelphia Outward Bound School, celebrates its groundbreaking.