Posts Tagged ‘Farley’

We are proud to be in this fine book and I’m particularly happy that my pictures are getting published all over the place. I’m enjoying photography more and more, as I have been mentioning in this blog. I’m preparing an exhibition… I’ll post about it soon.
Anyway, the focus of the book is sustainability. I encourage [...]


We picked up this Austin AIA award a few weeks ago, here are the comments of the judges. Last Saturday we also picked up an TSA design honor award at the convention. I’ll post those comments as soon as I get the footage. We also have more big news on the awards department, but we are not [...]


Claire’s blog


The Picassa slideshow was working on my Safari browser, but not my Firefox.
We’ve been shooting pics for the Farley Studio and putting them together for a presentation. Pretty intense week and weekend but I’m VERY happy with the pics. I was running around the building like mad at sunset, I think I CAN be [...]


So here’s what you can get for a bit over 150k:-) Again, Kyle is an artist living in Clebourne, Texas. He needed a super economical painting studio where he could live too.
Metal superstructure with metal sips; exposed plywood, polycarbonate, galvanized corrugated metal skin. Formed within the slab are a fire pit and a channel [...]


Our excitement over some key elements is crossing over from client to client! We’re talking about the

Big Ass Fan!
IT’S BIG, IT’S BAD; IT’S UP!!!!
(I’m talking really loud because the last time we mentioned them in our newsletter and in this blog, we got the coolest swag imaginable, thanks guys!) But seriously, we love this [...]


Steel is up!!!

22May06

If you have been reading about the craziness at the job in Cleabourne, you’ll be happy to hear that the construction is actually progressing nicely and that the steel is up! Our happy friend/client is sending us many pictures (mostly taken with his phone, I think…) MJ will have you want to notice the [...]


Maybe I should title this blog “the Daily Debacle”. Actually I dedicate everyday to the making of beautiful things. Maybe I should say the making of beautiful, appropriate things.
I receive one of those phone calls I’ve been talking about.
To back up for a minute and fill you in: in the last episode we found out [...]


Uno

11May06

These writings are exclusively the opinion of MJ Neal and do not necessarily reflect the opinion and philosophy of MJ Neal Architect
“There is work in understanding one another, having patience, arriving at something”
Ettore Sottsass – interview in Domus 887
“We live in a period of speed: in order to manage it we need to work together, [...]


I’ve got to be in some accelerated time warp, school is almost over… it’s time for our Spring Newsletter. Can you believe it! At least, my tomatoes are planted… Now they need to grow, so I can make my gazpacho! (gazpacho stuff)
1. An Artist’s Dream. An Artist’s Barn
2. Live Non-toxic. Build Non-toxic
3. Two-Residence Condo Project [...]