We’ve had some beautiful days of light this last week even if or possibly because of the high cedar pollen count. Some of us are suffering mightily! I managed to drag myself to the job site and snap a few shots in between sneezing and snorting and just generally trying to breath.
I’ve read that J. Frank Dobie’s cure for Cedar fever was to leave town during the season. I think he got it right.
Here are the images…
And that’s all for now, I’m going to take my homeopathy.
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 make the work public until there’s a winner… But if you happen to come by the office, you can sneak a peek:-)
Anyway, I hope MJ is cool with my posting these here. If not well, I’ll delete the entry:-) I like this house a lot and just in case you were wondering if you can build amazing houses on steep sites, yes you can… say no to huge retaining walls!!!!
[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) Honor Design Award, and let’s not forget the International IIDA Award (my favorite, see previous post)
The anecdote? We almost didn’t submit the project! Farley Studio was doing so well at competitions that when we were done submitting it, MJ, who was hungry and tired, said, “ah, let’s blow it off and go to Asti to eat… I was hungry and tired too…but something told me to submit Anthony Nak, so I stayed on and BAM! You never know, do you?:-)
Yey for being dogheaded when I’m hungry and tired and double yey for MJ’s design excellence!!!!
Here’s the video the TSA made for the 2005 State Design Honor Award.
Scott Randall Productions by Scott Randall. emailto:sr@scottrandall.com.
Copyright 2005 by the Texas Society of Architects.
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.
…and we raised a Lagavulin or three…maybe that’s why we didn’t get into the final selection, we were drinking Scotch instead of Irish wiskey.
You might recall the Dun Laoghaire Library competition. Well, here are a couple of images of it that one of my cohorts on the project , Jett Butler, Foda Studio, whipped up to use in his inspiring presentation at the TSA convention a couple of months ago.
whip it good!
some of the steel has been erected at the Larkey site.
The Larkey foundation has poured. Check that sunken tub, level with the floor and adjacent courtyard. We’re rocking now!
The super structure for the screens is complete. This shot was taken before the guide plates were removed. Now the edge flies…And here’s a distorted one of the front.
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