On May 15th the City of Deer Park hosted a ground breaking ceremony for phase one of the Deer Park Nature Preserve. RVi Planning + Landscape Architecture was selected by the City of Deer Park to lead the design of the new 38-acre park by providing conceptual programming for the overall site and design and... Read Full Post ›
Earlier this month, several members of RVi’s Austin office volunteered alongside other ASLA members to test a portion of CodeNEXT, Austin’s proposed new development code. RVi’s Peter Dufrene led our group’s efforts along with Patrick Smith, Alan Mackey, Noah Halbach, and Robin Winter. The focus of the test was CodeNEXT’s Functional Green, a requirement for... Read Full Post ›
Earlier this month, a group of 8 experts from the real estate community convened in Superior, AZ for a day-long panel to discuss strategies to enhance the local community and economy. The Town of Superior is the latest in a long line of Arizona communities to benefit from the ULI Technical Assistance Panel Program, also... Read Full Post ›
For developers and owners, among the myriad of decisions to be made during the course of a project is whether or not the design team needs to be local to the project site. And just like many other choices, this one is not always clear cut. There are several considerations which may impact this decision... Read Full Post ›
April is World Landscape Architecture Month (WLAM), and for the second year in a row the ASLA ran a very engaging “This is Landscape Architecture” campaign on Instagram. Here at RVi, we decided to take advantage of this annual uptick in social media activity around the subject of landscape architecture and launch our official Instagram... Read Full Post ›
When Nhasala Manandhar moved to Austin from Dallas in 2016, she sought out a way to learn about the city while simultaneously pursuing her passion for art. What she found was the Urban Sketchers group of Austin – a self-proclaimed local community that meets to sketch and promote the (larger) Urban Sketchers mission and manifesto.... Read Full Post ›
Participating in the Austin Parks Foundation’s It’s My Park Day is a tradition at RVi, and this year’s fall event was no exception. RViers rolled up their sleeves for a very fun project at the Austin Natural Science Center, where we helped the center’s staff install landscaping around the central pond area. The RVi team... Read Full Post ›
We are pleased to announce that Barbara Austin has joined the board of the Austin Parks Foundation (APF). As Vice President and Director of Park Design at RVi, Barbara has focused her career on the development of fun and engaging parks for people of all ages. APF’s mission is to partner with the community to... Read Full Post ›
Construction is almost complete on the new 12-acre Splash Park coming to the Teravista master planned community in Georgetown, Texas. You can get a sneak peak of this exciting new amenity via the animated flythrough, created by RVi’s in-house Lumion team for developer Newland Communities. Splash Park is much more than a standard splash pad,... Read Full Post ›
