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Keeping Up with Projects

January 13, 2020 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Keeping Up with Projects

I don't write many of these sorts of posts ... they are painful to put together even though I am happy enough to reflect upon the creative process while trying to evaluate if things turned out as good … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Dallas Architecture, Do you want to be an Architect?, Graphics, Life in General, Oak Grove Tagged With: a day in the life, career, design, details

Steel Stair Panels – Guardrails and Handrails

October 7, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Steel Stair Panels – Guardrails and Handrails

"Stairapalooza" might not be the best word for it but guardrailapalooza definitely isn't any better ... Handrailapalooza? Nope, that's not it either, but that's really what today's post is all about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Graphics - The Series, Construction, Design, Graphics, Oak Grove Tagged With: design, details, Graphics, Materials

Small, Big, Really Small, and Just Right

June 19, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Small, Big, Really Small, and Just Right

During construction, on every single project of my career, there is a conversation that I have with my clients ... and it has to do with the size of the rooms. At very predictable times during … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Construction, Life in General, Oak Grove, Observations Tagged With: Construction Observation, conversations, scale

Interior Stairwell Design and Graphics

May 21, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Interior Stairwell Design and Graphics

Few people love putting together stair drawings, but I think you'll agree that some stairs are more fun to detail than others. Such is the case for the monumental stairwell we've been working on for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Buildings, Design, Graphics, Oak Grove Tagged With: Construction Process, design, details

Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

May 8, 2019 by Bob Borson Leave a Comment

Man versus Machine – Architectural Sketch Series

I'm currently in Chicago celebrating the 50th birthday of a good friend of mine. In fact, there are four of us here and we all know each other from our time together from the University of Texas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architectural Sketches - The Series, Design, Graphics, Interior Design, Life in General, Materials and Products, Oak Grove, Sketching Tagged With: a day in the life, architectural sketching, architectural studio, architectural technology, design, design studio, Materials

Stairs are Complicated

March 26, 2019 by Bob Borson 1 Comment

Stairs are Complicated

Some of the most complicated and underappreciated architectural drawings to ever exist are those depicting stairs. While I will readily concede that part of me likes the technical challenges that come … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Construction, Design, Graphics, Oak Grove Tagged With: architectural sketching, architectural technology, details, Graphics, Modern Architecture

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