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
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
