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  • Arkansas Riverfront Arkansas Riverfront
  • Wellesley College Wellesley College
  • Menil Collection Menil Collection
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  • The Monk’s Garden The Monk’s Garden
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  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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The Obama Presidential Center is more than its granite tower

— Fast Company

A forest in downtown Austin? Inside Waterloo Greenway’s new Confluence

— Austin American Statesman

Lee Bey on the Obama Presidential Center

— Chicago Sun Times

Making More Room for the Living Among the Dead

— Read at Curbed

Caliche — Designing with Curiosity

— Gullivar Shepard, MVVA Partner

Nationally ranked, community loved: Gathering Place and Gipson Play Plaza voted #1 and #3 Best Public Playgrounds in the USA

— Read at USA TODAY

Gipson Play Plaza wins 2026 CID Award in Commercial Stone Design

— Read at Coverings

The Woodland Garden at BBG wins 2026 ASLA-NY Design Merit Award!

Newly renovated Upper Promenade at Allegheny Riverfront Park reopens

— Learn more at Riverlife

Gipson Play Plaza at Dix Park named the #1 spot on the New York Times "36 Hours in Raleigh" guide

— Read at The New York Times

Spirit of Space spotlights Teardrop Park in a new short film

— Watch on Vimeo

Parks that Revive the Maritime City: Brooklyn Bridge Park included in "The Best of the New New York Architecture"

— Read at New York Magazine / Curbed

Two MVVA projects named Fast Co's 2025 Best Waterfront Parks

— Read at Fast Company

OPC #27 of NYT's List of 52 Places to Go in 2026

— Read at the New York Times

— Apply January 2026

Northcrest selects MVVA to lead the YZD Runway Roadmap

— Read at The Globe and Mail

Cover Story: Landscape of Landmark Quality, University of Toronto

— Read at Canadian Architect

Inside the abandoned airport being transformed into a $30 billion sustainable city

— Read at CNN

AN's 2025 Best of Design Awards: University of Toronto wins Higher Education - Recreation & Leisure Award

— Read at The Architect's Newspaper

Biidaasige Park at The Port Lands Wins 2025 Brownie Awards Best Overall Project

— Canadian Brownfields Network (CBN)

Pensacola to build what will become city's largest park next year

— Read it at Pensacola News Journal

Raleigh's Gipson Play Plaza and Tulsa's Gathering Place Made the List of 8 U.S. City Parks Worthy of a Trip

— Read at the Washington Post

Inside the Obama Presidential Center, "a living, breathing cultural and gathering space”

— Read the cover story at The New York Times

Waterloo Greenway Celebrates Community Support at Annual Fundraiser

— Learn more and watch a video about this growing park system

The Bentway presents A Lake Story by Melissa McGill

— Watch it begin at the Port Lands

MVVA takes on Toronto’s multidecade, multidisciplinary effort to restore the Don River’s mouth and improve climate resilience

— Read at Arch Paper

University of Toronto wins 2025 Toronto Urban Design Award of Merit

— Read the Jury Report to Learn More

Waterloo Park Wins 2025 ASLA Honor Award in General Design

— Read More at ASLA

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, the new plan for New Orleans’s City Park focuses on resilience

— Read at Arch Paper

Master Plan for Poudre River Restoration Initiative Now Public

— Watch at 9news.com

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