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On a recent roadtrip I followed the path of two of America’s most famous roads – the Oregon Trail and old Route 66. They say the adventure is in the journey, not the destination, but both of these pathways existed to traverse the country as quickly and safely as possible on the way to the [...]
We have been working on a project in Boulder that holds a number of challenges, not the least of which is a long narrow lot with severe building restrictions. My client’s property is 50′ wide by 188′ long, but because of its corner location, both street-facing sides of the lot require a 25′ wide setback [...]
Most of the smaller towns that I passed through on a recent road trip had their version of the local movie palace. And most were closed down along with the rest of the storefronts along the main street. The emptiness of middle America is remarkable and so sad. We all hear the [...]
Over the recent Thanksgiving holiday break I took a roadtrip from Colorado to my native Kentucky. This is the vast Flyover land of the center of the United States. It is roughly the former vast inland sea from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachian Mountains. It is certainly the least densely populated one third to [...]
As almost anyone can attest to, one of the very first buildings that most people see on arriving in Boulder is the First Christian Church on CO 36/28th Street, in southeast Boulder. Built in 1960 and designed by Nixon and Jones, it is an excellent introduction to Boulder’s great collection of late Modernist architecture. The [...]
We are just getting ready to start construction on a new house in the Dakota Ridge Village neighborhood of north Boulder. The project is a design/build collaboration with Cottonwood Custom Builders with whom we have executed a number of past projects. The house consists of an extensive main level which houses all the primary functions [...]
We finally have some initial photos of the author and illustrator’s studio we completed earlier this year. The project consisted of the demolition of an older studio building – small and poorly constructed – and the creation of a new studio with an elevated reading loft. One of our goals of the project was to [...]
One of the sure-fire ways of designing a cool looking building in graduate school was to be infected with the Hyper-Attenuated Building Syndrome (HABS). Any project can be made absurdly long and skinny and by violating any notion of “pleasant” golden-section-type proportions, it instantly propels a project from everyday to extraordinary. Mind you, this was [...]