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30th and Glenarm is an 8-unit condominium project located in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood and developed for the non-profit Northeast Denver Housing Center. Initiated by a national competition sponsored by the Northeast Denver Housing Center and the American Institute of Architects, the project was developed from the first place award winning entry by Mark Gerwing. [...]
This is an urban infill project located near downtown Boulder, Colorado. The existing site was dominated by a well-preserved 1890′s house with a wrapping porch and porch cochere. The new design consists of renovating that old house and adding two duplex units at the street and four small single-family houses in the site’s large south [...]
I’m hesitant to even include this category because it seems so mean-spirited. Gilding the Lily is house-proud gone awry from too much love. It is simple said, too much of a good thing. When I look at these houses I want to go up to them and just snap a few things off, a corbel [...]
Just off downtown Loveland, Colorado is the ancient and intriguing Loveland Feed & Grain building. A many-year preservation and restoration effort has been taking place to find new uses for this magnificent building, expertly documented and researched in Christopher Th0rp’s report and headed up by a non-profit and Novo Restoration. I believe that we should all take [...]
Of the many types of ugly that inflict the American house, Ugly by Design, although not the most pervasive, it is certainly the most offensive. These houses clearly fall into the “what were they thinking” category of a design idea gone wrong. Sometimes Ugly by Design is the result of a once-interesting and innovative design [...]
The City of Boulder owns a significant portion of Valmont Butte, east of town, including the abandonded gold and fluorspar mill. The entire property is in the County and as part of a intergovernmental agreement, the City has been asked to grant landmark status to portions of the mill and associated buildings. The City conducted [...]
The majority of the heavy framing is done on the new house construction on our project up Sunshine Canyon. As every architect knows, the project, while decidedly unfinished, may never look so good again. When a building is no more than its simple framing, the rafters, joist, beams and posts artlessly revealed, it displays a [...]
I look at a lot of ugly houses. No one who has a really beautiful house needs my help as an architect – they are willing to live with a too small house or a dysfunctional house because it is so well-suited to its site and well-composed. No, as about half my work is in [...]