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Archive for January 2012
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 [...]
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, [...]
This project is a large studio building added to an existing 1880′s Second Empire style, Victorian era house in west Boulder. An older, 1970′s era studio was located in the same location as the new addition, but its connection to the existing house masked the original houses porch and overshadow the older portion of the [...]
This project consists of a complete renovation of the interior of a traditional townhouse in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. The interior of the house is organized around a large, elliptically curving stair made of craftsman wrought-iron and Brazilian cherry treads. At the center of this stair, at the main house level, an inlaid stone mosaic [...]
The renovation of this historic Boulder house was part of a larger development project adding 8 additional units in five buildings on this large, sprawling near-downtown lot. The existing 1890′s house was converted into two separate condominium units, one upstairs, one downstairs, utilizing all the existing entries and windows to preserve the character of [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
This university fraternity house renovation and addition was a project designed to update and expand the living and study spaces for engineering-based fraternity. The existing early 1960s gabled residence hall and common rooms were in poor condition and in dire need of a renovation to make them both safe and attractive to current and prospective [...]
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