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Eighteen months after the devastating Fourmile Fire swept away so many houses in the western foothills of Boulder, we have finally completed construction on a new home for Lynn and John Stasz. Like all projects it has been an exciting, frustrating and time-consuming task for everyone involved. This has been especially true for Lynn and [...]
Framing has begun in earnest on a new house we designed for the Dakota Ridge neighborhood in north Boulder. Weeks of excavation and foundations do not lend much to the physical presence of the building, but in few short days, a flurry of framing happens and the building begins to take shape. The pace of [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]