VALLE DE ORO

Valle de Oro has won the top award for contemporary architecture from the 2023 Jeff Harnar Awards! Surroundings lead both the landscape visioning during the design-build RFP and the subsequent design of the external environs for the new Valle de Oro Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center. This is the Southwest’s first urban wildlife refuge, and we are honored to have collaborated with Formative Architecture, Weddle Gilmore, and Biohabitats on this important project for New Mexico. A new visitor’s center and demonstration wetland overlooks the wildlife refuge and gives visitors and the surrounding communities a world-class educational event facility for the region.

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Lead Landscape Architect: @surroundings.studio

PIC: Kenneth Francis @kennethfrancis

PM: Joseph Charles @josephcharlesjewelry and Chrissy Scarpitti @cmscarpitti

Renderings: Will Iadevaia + @weddlegilmore

Jeff Harnar Awards: @jeffharnar_awards

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