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Farmhouse Remodeling & Addition

When I meet people for first time and they discover I’m an architect they often asked what kind of ’style’ I pursue.  The question always catches me off guard.  Within the last several posts on this blog you see examples of our work ranging from avant-garde to modern to traditional design, such as this farmhouse [...]

More Transportation Center Images

As promised in January, here are more images of our Cleveland Transportation Center competition entry from early this year. Double clicking on images will take you to a larger slide show.

Another Urgent Care Facility

Another one of a series of health care facilities for an out of state hospital group. This is one of eight projects currently being designed for this client. In all cases we are working with graphic design and branding consultants in order to produce an environment where the patient experience is paramount and in balance [...]

Update on our award winning house

Pictured here is a modified version of our award winning house (see earlier post in this blog) for a builder in Princeton, NJ. The floor plan was altered to specific requirements requested by the builders client, and we also changed the exterior cladding from paper based exterior panels to aluminum panels with a glossy white [...]

Urgent Care Medical Facility

Pictured above is our latest project – an 8,000 square foot free-standing urgent care medical facility prototype. This structure is designed with an eye toward balancing futuristic medical and information technology systems with the delivery of highly personalized, holistic and sympathetic medical services, both in an urgent care and family practitioner environment.
This project represents an [...]

The science is black & white – don’t be fooled by blue sky.

Competition entry for a free standing residential garage for up to three cars with the criteria that the solution expresses a technological advance in the storage or maintenance of the cars inside. The contest was sponsored by a major lifestyle magazine and auto company.
We took exception with the concept of a competition that essentially promotes [...]

Fuzzy Math

One economist plus one journalist does not equal one scientist.
The authors of ‘SuperFreakonomics’ misguide the easily misguided contending that geo-engineering is the path to reversing climate change.
As aptly put by climate change writer Elizabeth Kolbert in New Yorker magazine –
“what’s most troubling about “SuperFreakonomics” isn’t the authors’ many blunders; it’s [...]

Our latest project images…

A residence remodeling in Chapel Hill, NC. Just a couple of interesting views of the footprint of this single family home.

Our assignment is the historic restoration of an out-building where the famous Algonquin Press was first established in 1982. (3D Drawing model done in SketchUp)

Winning Design Competition Entry – Bronze Medal

Third place winner of nationwide residential design competition sponsored by Custom Builder magazine. Read more>

Conserving water, Saving money…

For those of you who have followed the issue, or our newsletters, you know that conserving energy resources can be done for any one of several reasons. As we’ve stated on many occasions ‘it’s not just about climate change‘. The issue extends to national security, economic security and even personal health. So getting on board [...]