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A Modern, Sustainable Addition-Take 1
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A Modern, Sustainable Addition-Take 2
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A Home for an East Asian Furniture Collection in Scotland
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Approaching retirement, the Client wished for a smaller house that properly accommodated and displayed certain pieces of East Asian furniture. Rather than placing them awkwardly in various rooms, a top lit route through the house acts as a gallery for these items...
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A Modern Sustainable Country House in Scotland
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Poised part way down a slope with a road above and a 'burn' or stream below, the design of this house is currently being developed in a way that reinterprets the traditional rural buildings, and integrates with the site to the point of becoming part of the landscape...
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A Small Timber House in Scotland
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Renovation of a Balloon Frame House
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A couple owns an aging but stately corner house packed with potential situated in a tree-lined Chicago neighborhood. They wanted a facelift and extra room for their young family. We sat down and discussed many things: their history with the house, their budget, houses that they liked and disliked and finally if they could have anything what would that be? Architecture is a lot like cooking. If there is something you've never tasted before, you don't know what you're missing...
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Reading Room Addition to a Christian Science Church
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Tomihiro Museum Competition Entry
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An international competition was held to choose a design for a new museum to house the small collection of the inspirational painter Tomihiro Hoshino. The prospectus for the competition focused on the unique life and positive attitude of Tomihiro. He was a world class skier before an accident left him a quadripalegic. He struggled to lift himself out of this dark predicament. Tomihiro began to paint, with the brush tightened between his teeth, and became an inspiration for us all...
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Home Office (Applying Architecture to Everyday Problems)
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A couple wanted to renovate their extra bedroom into a home office. They initially wanted something like their real office in their home: a huge L-shaped desk that hugged two walls. The problem was it made opening the windows impossible and the room almost unusable. People think that architecture is useful for only museums and large buildings. Here is an example of how architecture can make a difference for the better in everyday life...
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The history of architecture tells us that Judaism has no real architectural tradition of its own. It instead borrows from local traditions. This practice is apparent in the description of the Temple of Solomon, the masonry synagogues of nineteenth century Berlin and the various Jewish cultural centers in Albany Park where I took painting instruction as a child. They were all built in the vernacular. For this project...
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A 200 000 sf Green Office Building and Interior Build-out
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This is a project that I worked on while under the employ of another firm. This firm practiced a very flat hierarchy where everyone on the team was a peer and shared every task from programming to specifying the structural system and from designing the exterior elevations to laying out the workstations. Not many architects get this kind of experience...
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