Yesterday something pretty funny happy - maybe I should say something exciting, then not so much exciting as funny. I received an email from Rob Jones who is with Build Direct, a Vancouver BC company … [Read more...]
Top Ten Reasons to be a Residential Architect
1. Personal relationships with clients Working on residential projects allows for a personal connection that simply doesn’t exist on commercial or civic projects. The distinction might be based … [Read more...]
Sketching out a design solution
I received an email asking if I would share details from some of my projects. While I bristle at the risk I might be exposing myself to, I remembered that I enjoy looking at details quite a bit, so … [Read more...]
The Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church
The Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church transformed a generic shop building into a place of worship and fellowship. The existing structure was oriented in opposition to the Eastern axis that … [Read more...]
Evil Top Ten list – I hate you
I have been struggling lately with a post I wrote some time ago about the top ten reasons to not be an architect and the top ten reasons to be an architect. When I wrote these, it was a response to … [Read more...]
The House of Marlon Blackwell
There are two more projects from Marlon Blackwell to look at but I might get sidetracked for a while before I get to the second and far more controversial (it needs to stew in my pea brain for a … [Read more...]