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Shopping for Rocks

March 8, 2012 by Bob Borson 9 Comments

boulder

Sounds kind of stupid right...Shopping for Rocks? Let me explain...my wife and I decided that it was time to add a stone patio over the giant dust bowl that has become the area right outside the backdoor of our house. Current dust bowl … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Materials and Products, Observations Tagged With: a day in the life, landscape, Scott Taylor

Pool or water feature?

March 5, 2012 by Bob Borson 17 Comments

Pool cover roller and rails

Pool or water feature? At some level it doesn't really matter considering the role that this particular pool/ water feature has to play. But it is very unique - at least in my world. If I was keeping count (and I'm not so this is a complete guess), I … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Construction, Contractors, Materials and Products, My Work Tagged With: Construction Observation, Construction Process, consultants, landscape, Sale Street

Sexy Retaining Wall

March 1, 2012 by Bob Borson 29 Comments

retaining wall detail

This happy top-o-the morning looking bloke is David Hocker. He's a landscape architect (Hocker Design Group) and a pretty good one at that. Besides winning an American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) National Honor Design award and a ASLA … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Construction, Modern House Tagged With: concrete, Construction Observation, Construction Process, consultants, details, landscape, modern house, plans, Sale Street

Pinterest for Architects

February 27, 2012 by Bob Borson 25 Comments

Pinterest Logo

Unless you've had your head under a rock or extremely slow to discover new things, you have probably heard of Pinterest. One of the latest entries into the world of social networking, Pinterest is a website that allows users to collect web-based … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Materials and Products, Observations Tagged With: architectural technology, being a part of the design process, clients, design, Things that are Cool, tools of the trade

Job sites are dirty

February 23, 2012 by Bob Borson 15 Comments

dirty jobsite - painting supplies

Yes - job sites are dirty, although maybe I should have said job sites are 'messy' so that I could limit the number of visits I get from people looking for "dirty sites". Trying to manipulate the internet is tricky business and best left up to … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Life in General, My Work Tagged With: Construction Observation, Construction Process, contractors, modern house, Sale Street

By the numbers … 2011 Life of an Architect

February 21, 2012 by Bob Borson 26 Comments

Life of an Architect 2011 Traffic stats from Bluehost

Back on January 3rd, 2011, I wrote a post about the traffic that comes to my site ... and I showed what information seemed interesting about my 2010 traffic. I didn't put together a similar post for 2011 but as I sit here working on my National AIA … [Continue reading]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: 2012 AIA National Convention, blog, conversations, Writing a blog

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