Recent News

28 April 2026

Williams Lodge and ONEOK Boathouse for Gathering Place selected as Winner of 2025 American Architecture Awards Mixed Use Buildings Category

The Williams Lodge and the ONEOK Boathouse, designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, were announced as a winner of the 2025 American Architecture Awards Mixed Use Building category. The Williams Lodge was also the recipient of an AIA Georgia Honor Award in 2024.

Announcement: American Architecture Awards 2025

Announcement: AIA Georgia Honor Award 2024

News Article — Architect Magazine

Gathering Place Awards — Gathering Place Awards

22 May 2024

Mack Scogin Inducted as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for 2024

Mack Scogin was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for 2024 in a ceremony in New York. The American Academy of Arts and Letters was founded in 1898 as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers.

Merrill Elam was inducted as member for 2023.

Early members include William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Julia Ward Howe, Henry James, Edward MacDowell, Theodore Roosevelt, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, John Singer Sargent, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.

Announcement: American Academy of Arts and Letters

23 May 2022

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) Announces Plans for New Facility at The Goat Farm Arts Center and 2022 Gala and Dedication

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA) announced plans for a new facility at The Goat Farm Arts Center in West Midtown Atlanta. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects is the architect for the new permanent home for MOCA GA included as part of the expansion of the Goat Farm arts complex. MOCA GA held a gala and dedication of the parcel of land for the project on 22 May 2022 at the site of the future home of MOGA GA.

Gala announcement: MOCA GA

News article: Art Daily

News article: Atlanta Magazine

News article: Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About: MOCA GA

05 September 2019

Gathering Place Selected as a Winner of 2019 Urban Land Institute Global Awards for Excellence, Named the Best New Attraction by USA Today and Named a World’s Greatest Place 2019 by TIME Magazine

Gathering Place was selected as a winner of the 2019 Urban Land Institute Global Awards for Excellence. Gathering Place named the Best New Attraction in the nation by USA Today 10Best Reader’s Choice 2019. Gathering Place named a World’s Greatest Place 2019 by TIME Magazine. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects designed the ONEOK Boathouse, Williams Lodge and restroom cabana. Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates is the landscape architect of the park.

Gathering Place: Gathering Place / MSME

News article – ULI Winners: Urban Land Institute

News article – ULI Project Profile: Urban Land Institute

Project: Architect

News article: USA Today 10Best Reader’s Choice 2019

News article: Time Magazine Greatest Places 2019

Plan Your Visit: Gathering Place

News article: New York Times

28 August 2019

U.S. General Services Administration Releases Approved Design Concept and Groundbreaking of New Des Moines U.S. Courthouse

The U.S. General Services Administration released the approved design concept for the $136.6 million new U.S. Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects is the Lead Design Architect and Neumann Monson Architects is the Architect of Record / Executive Architect. The new 229,000 square-foot courthouse will feature nine courtrooms and has a scheduled completion of Fall 2022. Groundbreaking of project occurred on 28 August 2019 in Des Moines.

News Release – Design Concept: General Services Administration

News Release – Groundbreaking: General Services Administration

Project Details: General Services Administration