Category Archive: places
we only have a few months here where the hillsides are really green. The golden brown color of dry grass, summer through winter, gives way briefly to the lush greens of Spring.
I am working on a remodel and addition to an odd A-frame hybrid house at the base of Sunshine Canyon, just west of Boulder. The original house, built in 1964, was designed by architect Richard Brown. Brown designed a number of these modified A-frame houses, mostly around Boulder, before he later took that form and [...]
I was at a jobsite earlier today and was watching one of the tradesman prepare some raw, exposed steel for final finishing. steel almost always makes me think of Chicago tough, uncompromising city of steel, city of the blues For some reason I have been thinking alot of Chicago as well. In the Loop, the [...]
Last weekend my family and I went to the Stock Show in Denver. Amid all the cows and horses were an amazing collection of antique tractors. Hard to get much more beautiful than these. for Jim
Many of you who live in Boulder may have read the Daily Camera stories about the mystery artist whose works have shown up at various places in the city. It is an interesting, ongoing story that many would like to solve. I think there have been two large works installed without the knowledge (or consent) [...]
Some images and thoughts on the initial design stage of a new house on Sunshine Canyon Drive, west of Boulder, for homeowners who lost their house in the recent Fourmile Fire
a look at Woody Allen’s film Sleeper and the place establishing shots of building from around Denver and Boulder, especially NCAR by I.M. Pei, the Brenton House by Charles Haertling and the Sleeper House by Charles Deaton
