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Haertling’s Menkick House for sale
An astute client pointed out that the magnificent house on Green Rock Drive, the Menkick House, by Charles Haertling, is up for sale. Completed in 1970, the Menkick House is among Haertling’s finest works and ranks alongside his Volsky House, Benton House and Willard House as one of the finest examples of late Modernist Organic [...]
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up Sunshine Canyon, construction progress, The Home Stretch
Over the last several months I have posted images of the construction progress for a house we designed up on Sunshine Canyon, just west of Boulder. The original house at this location was lost to the Fourmile Fire in September 2010 along with 170 other houses. We are in the last 4-6 weeks of construction, [...]
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San Luis Valley – chapels
I have finally gotten around to processing some more film from a very rewarding trip to the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado last year. I will certainly be going back there again this year, later in the Spring when the heavy snows have past but before the major snowmelt swells all the local [...]
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midwestern vernacular – agricultural buildings
a photographic ode to the grain elevator I I have written in the past about silos and grain elevators and the attraction of the their stark, pure forms dominating the midwest landscape. A couple of hundred years ago, English gentlemen would race their horses to the next church steeple poking its head above the lanscape, [...]
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The cost of building
Housing construction has been in the dumps in the last few years. This means that not only the large, market developer home builders are out of work, but so are the small general contractors and all the associated trades – plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. Things are pretty dire but they do seem to be picking [...]
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Midwestern churches
As I have talked about in a couple of recent posts on the flatness of the Midwest, a simple building standing in that relentlessly horizontal landscape is a powerful, singular moment. This is even more apparent when it is a church, rising upward to heaven, a determinedly vertical building contrasting the vast horizon. Unlike other [...]
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