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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].

01 JUNE 2020
We’re thrilled to announce that Rachel Perez has joined the HILLWORKS crew as a Landscape Designer! We’re delighted to have you here, Rachel.

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.

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.