RSS Feed
Tag Archive: m-gerwing-architects
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Housing construction has been in the dumps in the last few years. This means that not only the large, market developer home builders are out of work, but so are the small general contractors and all the associated trades – plumbers, carpenters, electricians, etc. Things are pretty dire but they do seem to be picking [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]