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Just outside my office I have a little balcony, not much more than a space for a couple of chairs and a table. For as attractive as the idea of sitting out there is, resting on the rickety metal chairs and sketching away on that little table, I don’t often venture out there. It is [...]
Colfax Avenue runs east-west through Denver, Colorado and is an approximately 26 mile journey from the eastern plains through the heart of the city westward to the base of the mountains. Starting out as US Highway 40, it was the main entry into Denver from the east until the interstate highway system displaced its welcoming [...]
Construction is well under way on a single family house we designed for a site in north Boulder. The lot is on the edge of the city’s open space facing west to a series of rolling foothills. As a corner lot, the house’s views are primarily directed toward this westward view with some smaller, more [...]
a brief attempt to explain the genesis and motivation for this blog and the conundrum of architects, architecture and writing
I try not to have this little blog be a mere reposting of other’s content or the latest eye-candy images of buildings (archi-porn), but rather to try to add something, maybe feeble, to the dialog about making, architecture and place. However, occasionally a really interesting article or topic comes to my attention and begs for [...]
I recently attending some sessions of the Colorado Preservation Inc.’s Saving Places 2012 Conference. As usual with these things there are plenty of educational sessions that you can geek-out on various preservation topics, from process-heavy advice for preservation commissions to very technical analysis of window retrofitting techniques. For me the most interesting event was the [...]
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, [...]