How Great Bike Infrastructure Encourages More Riders: A First-Hand Account
Recently, Elaine Kramer from our office took a vacation to Montreal and Quebec, Canada. Her experience with using the local bike infrastructure has changed her views on riding bikes in …
Lessons Learned from Barcelona: An Intern’s Perspective
Our intern, Tori Frydrych, was fortunate enough to study in Barcelona, Spain earlier this summer. Before she left to go back to school, she wrote about her experience: During my …
New Park in Export Tells Story About Coal Mining While Serving Families
The Borough of Export is excited to announce the preparation of a Master Plan for a new park in the heart of town. JM Hall Jr. Park is located on …
Child Care Center at Hort Woods Wins Design Award
We are pleased to announce that the Child Care Center at Hort Woods at Penn State has won a 2017 Merit Award from the Pennsylvania Delaware Chapter of the American …
Missy honored with AHS Great American Gardener Award
This June, Pashek + MTR Firm Principal Missy Marshall was recognized at the 2017 American Horticultural Society Great American Gardeners Awards where she received the Landscape Design Award. This award …
Pashek Associates and MTR Landscape Architects have merged!
Award-winning Pittsburgh planning & landscape architecture firms Pashek Associates and MTR Landscape Architects have merged to become Pashek + MTR. By combining the strengths, specialties, and staff of both companies, …
Pashek Implementable Plans now “tools” at County Planning website
Allegheny County has included resources for the Implementable Comprehensive Plan in its updated website for “Allegheny Places,” the county’s comprehensive plan. Calling growing interest in the implementable approach to planning …
The New Wild: Can Invasives Actually be Good?
Most of us have bought into an ecological ideology where invasive species do not exist and native plants thrive in a balanced system. In the design world you get points …