Merritt Chase has been recognized as the 2025 Midwest Landscape Architect Best of Practice Award winner by the Architect’s Newspaper. This annual program seeks to celebrate a breadth and merit of firms, including architects, contractors, sustainability and façade consultants, engineers, fabricators, interior designers, developers, and landscape architects, to spotlight those who not only champion an aesthetic vision, but also social and sustainable goals.

Throughout the entries, winners, and jury deliberations for the 2025 edition, an emphasis on employee wellbeing and a studio’s impact on the industry at large and local communities remained top of mind for many. Many of the companies that stood out to the jury impressively leveraged scale, expertise, and influence for larger endeavors like conducting further impactful research, empowering other generations, and finding solutions for new, global challenges.

Juror and Superbloom co-founder Diane Lipovsky noted, “The firm is really committed to positive social impact and helping their region. The practice does a lot of research and work on Appalachia and how they can contribute to the regeneration of those areas.” We are thrilled to be recognized among so many of our inspiring peers.