Posts Tagged ‘bouldin’

… or how to get around the McMansion ordinance and its hatred towards much needed duplexes and still have cool design.Notice how the articulation makes the building seem to move and how the shared wall and the front are broken up and shifted to prevent a massive look. more about “Cool Duplex in Austin, TX…“, [...]


(Yet another one) For all those people that think the project on south 5 st, in Bouldin, is ours, no it isn’t! This is the house we had designed and permitted for South 5 St and that was never built.This was actually the second design for this extremely difficult lot. We posted the first design [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


It’s concrete guys, so smooth that you’d think it was plastic… fabricated by John Newbold. more about “Trellis Finished, Vanity in“, posted with vodpod


Lost Images

27Jan08

I was poking around old files and found these (I had never even seen them before) They are an old incarnation of a house that will never be, but I thought I put them here. We can’t post what we are working on right this minute, because it’s a couple of competitions and we can’t [...]


We are grateful for the year peeking at us with a kind eye. 1. New Featured Project, Szeto/Shum Residence renderings at mjneal.com 2. New Curra’s Restaurant starts construction 3. Challenging Remodel in Rollingwood 4. Steep-site Remodel in Balcones Drive 5. University of Texas Arlington Revisited 6. Exhibition in Mexico 7. Books and Magazines: Japan, Mexico [...]



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