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Featured Work

Three Innovative Waterfront Projects Receive Honors
Paradise Under the Expressway

Buffalo Bayou Promenade and Park

Curbed.com
Fast Company features Bay Area resiliency proposal
Agrihoods Take Root

The Associated Press profiles The Cannery in Davis, CA
Watershed Moment

Fuzhou Vanke Town on Wallpaper.com
Texas ASLA Honors SWA with 9 Awards
4 Awards from ASLA-Northern California Chapter
How Driverless Vehicles Will Change Our Urban Landscape

Kinder Baumgardner for Cite magazine
IDEAS Blog
Rural Renewal: Sonoma County Landscape Drives Modernist Home Design

LUXE Interiors + Design
Final Pershing Square Design Proposals Revealed
“Houston Goes Global With New World-Class Parks And Bayous”

Forbes
2015 ULI Urban Open Space Award Winner

Thousand Lantern Lake Park System
Learn about the Firm
“Sponge City: China’s Movement Toward Resilient Infrastructure”
SWA’s Social Impact Design Initiative
Hanging Gardens for CREATE Technology Campus in Singapore
ARTIC

Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center
UC Davis West Village

Largest Planned Net Zero Energy Development in US
SWA in Shenzhen

My Liveable City Highlights Ongoing Revitalization Efforts
Landscape Infrastructure: Case Studies by SWA – 2nd Edition
Fort Wayne’s Future Riverfront Transformation
A Week in the Life of a Landscape Architect

San Francisco Managing Principal Rene Bihan