Posts Tagged ‘architect’

in 2003 we were asked to submit ideas for an Art Forum and Community Center in Annaka, Japan… Our design was centered about the Mulberry trees we were gonna plant, hundreds of them. See if you can spot the kids with balloons and the dog (in the sketches.) MJ and I have gone into macrobiotics [...]


more about “Twin Peaks Explained“, posted with vodpod There seems to be a few questions about Twin Peaks on Apartment Therapy. I guess we can answer them here… Yes, the central piece seems to float off the walls. It’s structure is attached to the wall by brackets. Since the houses are not big, it allows [...]


It must be Twin Peaks month:-)  Good Life Magazine and now Apartment Therapy A house tour by Adrienne Breaux. Fantastic article and she took a bunch of pictures, there’s a pretty comprehensive slideshow. Wow, it’s SO great to see a good picture of that table. MJ can design furniture like nobody’s business. I keep wishing [...]


I’m just getting these up with the tile and the railing in the making and MJ already has taken more pics that will be coming up, he’s a MANIAC!!! more about “Y mas y mas , y maaaas Lobo!“, posted with vodpod


Mas Lobo!

11Jul08

It’s really starting to show more like a finished house, I can’t wait to seriously photograph it! MJ took these teasers of the Wolfe Den on W Live Oak today: (oh, I have to remember to tell El Lobo! about Magic Erasers, in case he doesn’t know about them… those walls and doors and panels have [...]


The Studio

10Jul08

I just added the Firm’s Book to this site as a page. Check the pdf out! more about “The Office“, posted with vodpod


Amy Lemen wrote a wonderful article in this month’s issue of The Good Life Magazine. Download the article’s pdf HERE. And this reminds me of the .Inc article on the “other twin”, just to balance matters. That’s a pretty wonderful article too.            If you happen to read these two articles you’ll [...]


Went by the larkey job today, it was deserted because of the rain. With almost all the sliding doors in, you can really start telling what the space is going to feel like. My favorite has to be the new master bedroom, with the views to the courtyard and the clerestory window streching beyond where [...]


Concept for the Tomihiro Museum Competition Entry: JJ Rumpeltes did this animation a few years back for the concept that MJ designed for the Tomihiro Museum Competition.


AUUUU!!!!! from picasaweb.google.com posted with vodpod


Slow… Home

20Mar08

We’re featured on the slow home. blog/site. A wonderful site dedicated to real architecture. The idea was inspired by the slow food movement. Another worthy and timely cause to check into. Check out their principles. we subscribe to everysingle one of them. Let’s make a difference!


[We (Oooooohhhhhhhhh)Won] Can you BELIEVE it??? M. J. Neal Architects just won the 2008 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture from the American Institute of Architects (AIA). It’s a great day, it’s a great, big, fat, new…. year!!!! This project had already won an Austin AIA Design Award and the Texas Society of Architects (TSA) [...]


Steel going up at the Larkey residence. One beam has been cut to go around a beautiful little Live oak. This allows us to save the tree and have some fun with the movement of the car port roof.


Steely

29Nov07

some of the steel has been erected at the Larkey site.


Check the Tub

06Nov07

The Larkey foundation has poured. Check that sunken tub, level with the floor and adjacent courtyard. We’re rocking now!



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