Oklahoma City’s Scissortail Park recently won the Engineering News-Record (ENR) Texas & Louisiana‘s “Best Project” award in the Landscape/ Urban Development category. The park was designed by Hargreaves Associates in collaboration with Butzer Architects and Urbanism (BAU), which led design of the park’s buildings. Gibbs College Dean Hans E. Butzer and his wife, Torrey Butzer, are principals of BAU.
The park was submitted to this year’s contest by the City of Oklahoma City (OKC), and was selected as one of only 18 ENR “Best Projects” from over 130 entries. Scissortail Park is located in downtown OKC, and the first 36-acres of the 70-acre design opened last September, 2019.
To learn more about the park, check out the article from The Architect's Newspaper.
Feature photo courtesy of Scissortail Park
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce Esther Thorp, Tyler Boydstun and Chukwuma Nwokoye as the winners of the 2026 Construction Innovation Translation Hub (CIThub) Student Ideas Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Assistant Professor Dr. Ladan Mozzafarian in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design (PLAD) recently published a new research article in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives with former RCPL student and co-author Tahsin Tabassum.
A project designed by Gibbs College of Architecture faculty member Austin Lightle has been selected for BuildFest 2026, a national art and architecture festival held at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
