Construction progress at Holladay Hills Plaza ⛰️
A recent site visit to Holladay Hills offered a closer look at the evolving public plaza surrounding the renovated Macy’s building in Holladay, Utah.
Designed in collaboration with @woodbury_1919 , @nelsen_partners , Spectrum Engineering, and Hydrosystems, the project is beginning to reveal how landscape, architecture, and the Wasatch backdrop come together to shape the experience of the site.
Natural flagstone elements now weave through the plaza, defining pathways, gathering spaces, and moments of pause throughout the landscape. As construction continues, the material palette and spatial rhythm are starting to take shape in a way that feels grounded in the surrounding environment.
Looking forward to seeing the plaza continue to evolve.
⚡️La Raza Park
📍1501 W 38th Ave, Denver, CO 80211
This newly renovated park is ✨OPEN✨ and you need to go! 💙
Why we loved this park ⬇️
✨ The way these cloud-like structures have a chokehold on me is unreal… dreamy doesn’t even begin to cover it ☁️
✨ Music and sensory stations 🎶🌈
✨ Unique climbing structure for big kid energy 🧗🏻
✨ Big + small slides for all ages 🛝
✨ The “bridge” on the main structure was a toddler favorite
✨ The large shade trees 🌳
✨ El Kiosko - I loved admiring the art and architecture… my boys loved running up and down the ramp 🤣
Add this to your park wish list ASAP and send it to your park besties!⚡️
#playground #denver #thingstodoindenver #denvermom #denverkids
A look inside the process. 👀
Our team recently visited pikus_3d to coordinate a custom BBQ feature for an upcoming mixed use and multifamily project in Utah City alongside @nelsen_partners . The shop visit brought the team into the middle of the fabrication process, surrounded by material samples, physical models and advanced 3D printing technology that helped refine the design in real time.
3D printed concrete continues to open new possibilities for form, precision and craft and it’s exciting to see those ideas move from concept into fabrication.
Seven generations out. 🌱
Thanks to the community, La Raza Park’s revitalized playground, upgraded basketball courts, ADA-compliant pathways, native landscaping, and more are complete. Every improvement is a promise kept to this neighborhood, and to every generation still coming.
They didn’t just build a park. They planted something.
We’re not building for the kids of today, we’re shaping spaces that will be enjoyed seven generations out.
#denverparks #community #tlazocamati
The most successful public spaces are shaped with the community, not just for them.
Public engagement is a critical part of the design process, creating opportunities to listen, gather insight and better understand how people want to experience a space before it’s built.
Workshops, open houses, on-site conversations and interactive activities all play a role in creating stronger, more connected landscapes.
Water is treated as infrastructure, experience and ecology at the Avondale Civic Center.
By integrating rain gardens, water harvesting strategies and native planting into the core of the design, stormwater becomes part of how the landscape functions and feels. Runoff from roofs, plazas and parking areas is directed into planted zones that support cooling microclimates, expand biodiversity and replenish groundwater beneath the site.
A systems-based approach that turns stormwater into a long-term landscape asset.
Sketching spaces before they become places ✏️
Hand drawing creates space for iteration, testing and discovery in a way that feels immediate and intuitive. It allows ideas to evolve quickly while keeping the focus on experience, scale and spatial relationships before moving into digital representation.
Take a peek inside the studio as our team works through ideas by hand before they become built reality.
Across Phoenix and the Southwest 🌵
Our work responds to the realities of the desert, shaping spaces that balance climate performance, hydrology and everyday use. Civic spaces and regional parks are designed with native systems, long-term durability and community patterns in mind, built to perform over time.
Swipe to see the range ➡️
Working on projects ranging from expansive regional systems to highly focused, small-site interventions isn’t just a matter of resizing ideas.
It requires a team that can re-calibrate effectively, shifting between big-picture thinking and precise, detail-driven execution.
Each scale brings its own set of pressures, from long-term land performance, hydrology and infrastructure to tight sites where material choices, edge conditions and spatial decisions carry more weight. Moving fluidly between those conditions demands agility and design discipline.
Gilbert Regional Park — 272 acres
Heroes Regional Park — 47 acres
Surprise Rescue Oasis Park — 27 acres
ASU Novus — 19 acres
Sirrine House — 0.6 acres
It’s that constant shift, and the opportunity to shape places at every scale, that fuels the curiosity, creativity and genuine joy our team brings to this work.
This Earth Day, we’re proud to be working with the City of Littleton on Blueprint Boulevard—an area plan shaping a more resilient future for Littleton Boulevard.
As planning lead, Dig Studio is guiding the vision and engagement process to help define a corridor that celebrates its historic character, supports local businesses, improves multimodal safety, and strengthens long-term environmental resilience.
Our first open house focused on listening—what people love and where there’s opportunity. More than 100 community members showed up to help shape the plan.
Missed it? There’s still time to share your input through April 23—link in bio.
@littletongov@opticosdesign@consoreng@migcommunity@epsdenver@arthouse_design
In a desert city, a park has to do more 🌗
Heroes Regional Park in Glendale brings together inclusive play, connected pathways and climate-responsive systems across 47 acres. Shade, water and landscape work together to create spaces that are usable, comfortable and adaptable throughout the day.
At night, the park continues to perform, with lighting and circulation that support safe, welcoming use after sunset.
Recognized with a 2026 ASLA Arizona Honor Award, the project reflects a new approach to public space in the desert.
Thank you to our project partners:
@architekton_studio@bda.designs@lloydsportsengineering
Marc Taylor
Ninyo Moore
@thinking_caps_design@wrightengineers
Swipe to explore some of our Colorado designs ➡️ Our work focuses on parks and the public realm, integrating landscape architecture, infrastructure and ecological systems to shape how cities function and evolve. Rooted in regenerative design, we create landscapes that restore ecological systems while bringing joy to everyday experiences. 📍 16th Street: A comprehensive streetscape reconstruction restoring a historic civic corridor through expanded pedestrian zones, integrated tree canopy and infrastructure upgrades that support long-term performance and public life. 📍 Paco Sánchez Park: A community-informed park where accessible loops, cultural and music-inspired elements, and layered programming reshape play to support health, equity and year-round use. 📍 Platte Street Plaza: An urban plaza along a key pedestrian and bike corridor, where custom seating, planting and ground plane design calm circulation and support everyday gathering.
📍 9+CO: A 26-acre redevelopment that reestablishes the urban grid through tree-lined streets, parks and a connected public realm framework supporting walkability at a neighborhood scale. 📍 Relish Food Hall + Pickleball: An adaptive reuse transforming a former big-box site into a layered social landscape, with outdoor rooms, pollinator planting, and microclimates supporting year-round use. 📍 Heron Pond: An 80-acre park transforming a formerly industrial site into the city’s largest nature park through ecological restoration and stormwater infrastructure. Each project reflects how landscape architecture can restore systems, strengthen communities and create places people are drawn to.
