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We are really excited to be working on a number of great projects – good clients, interesting sites. One of projects in the design phase is a new house for a young couple in Pine Brook Hills just west of Boulder. The very steep site is challenging and our past experience designing and building on [...]
Currently at the Denver Art Museum is an exhibit of the photographic work of Robert Adams. Robert Adams grew up in Colorado and is best known for his photographs of the New West – the human impacts on the landscape. Unlike Ansel Adam’s stunningly beautiful images of western landscapes, Robert Adam’s images are a combination [...]
Many years ago I lived in Venice for a time. I was an enthusiastic architecture student from the rolling hills of central Kentucky and my arrival in Venice still resonates with me. Not so much the first impression or even the first day or two, but that growing feeling of unease and intrigue upon slowly [...]
“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” Winston Churchill The City of Boulder’s Preservation Guidelines, like those of most municipalities, contains an interesting paradox that is the bane of many a project. All new construction in historic districts is required to meet two seemingly [...]
It can be hard to decide – this or that, one or two, artisan whole wheat or quinoa spelt (hey, I live in Boulder). Hopefully there is not a lot riding on those decisions and a mistake can be revisisted or disguised as toast. A house it not such an easy fix. I am not [...]
As we develop a project we go through a lot of drawings. Elevations, plans, and details that all describe what materials are where and how they come together. What we have to try not to loose in this process is the original ideas of the project that are usually more about space than [...]
I have been thinking alot about the rhythm of facades of buildings. Typically a commercial building has some rhythm of openings, windows and/or doors, that trace across its surface. This can be as simple as the modules of a curtain wall system or a structural system expressing itself on the outside of a building. This [...]
A year ago today, the Fourmile Fire was raging in the foothills just west of Boulder. It started on Labor Day and I was in the studio, working, with the door to the balcony open when I started to smell smoke. That first hint of smoke grew and when I finally went out on the [...]