building design Blogs

our cat's own door

...this is my design response for my wife, and her special request for fresh air, while our pivoting front door is closed...

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Suzie's Shoe Prints

 

Suzie’s Shoe Prints

During the feasibility analysis and site selection for the Ragel Family Greer Community Center, from the window of a private plane, scars from former horsback riding days were numerous and obvious.

 

 

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tempe's "hello friday"

Right time right place for escaping the pending summer heat.

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Greer's Flowers

In the Greer Community Center, one of the design gestures we made to keep the focus on the natural surroundings, was to propose colors that matched the natural landscape.

 

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Panache Partners' book "Dream Homes Southwest"

Panache Partners book "Dream Homes Southwest" is where "Clyde and Margaret's Home" is published.

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project managers' skills

I spent a couple of days focusing on improving my project management skills.

 

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Palo's shells and bells

Palo Soleri has died (our "Local Arizona"  designer icon, who continues to influence our planet's population with his universe-scale thinking).

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Frank’s local materials

LOCAL NATURAL! Architecture does not get better than that. 

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Sheryl's Thank You

"Bill, we won, we won first place, we won first place in the Southwest, call me...."

 

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bill's markers

Every once in a while, I test my colored markers...

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