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.
MJ Speaks
Wolfe Den: Stairwell to the Skylight
the skylights arrived this week and are installed…along with other progress. check the stair armature out!
Moon Units Tagged
Local graffiti artists add lib on the white block walls of the Moon Units. (That is the walls that are supposed to be the finished surface) We should be able to raise the price per square foot for this art by, well, who knows the limit. At least this made the contractor smile…But seriously, one of the components of building in the city…what are you gonna do? Try and see this as an opportunity not a problem. Some days it’s harder to than others. The buildings shapping up though.
Larkey Addition/Remodel starts in Barton Hills
An A.D. Stenger designed house. We are adding an elegant, low key addition that will not overpower the original low slung lines.
Studio Dog Visits Moon Units
The block is going up
Blue, our dog, alerts the architect to the fact that this block needs to be cleaned badly!
Wolfe Den Progress
avier, metal worker extraordinare on the phone
on the phone
still on the phone
Dogs Hate Dog Houses; Dogs Love Sofas
I don’t even know where to begin. We’re presenting stuff like mad. Remodels, houses on the lake, houses on cliffs, houses in town, houses in the country, more remodels… and a dog house.
I’ll get around to posting about it all but let’s begin with that last one, it’s for Barkitecture Austin.
Our dog house/sofa is called WOOFA.
It’s a dog house that becomes an outdoor sofa (well, two really.) Like they say, a picture (or three) is worth a thousand words.
The glorious text comes from this blog that indispensable Jett of FODA Studio found.
All for charity… for the hounds. Design Within Reach is putting it together. We love the hounds, we love DWR. But we love John and Mike most of all because they are probably at the warehouse, right now, up to their eyebrows in sawdust, and it’s late, and it looks so incredible… get this, there was a little dog drawn in the wood, a wood knowt that looked like a dog, what are the odds???
What a shot!
The local gas company building in Barcelona by Miralles and Tagliabue. Did you see the bird at the top??? We can sell this pic any day. Way to go MJ! So yes, we have been in Europe for two weeks. Barcelona and then the beach… at Calella de Palafrugell and back to Barcelona. It’s a deal, we’re going back in June/July and we will work from the beach. Why not?
Steel is up!!!
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 indentation in the foundation specially designed to collect the sand that this fine artist throws at his paintings when he works… there’s also another cut in the foundation that is to be a fire pit… but MJ will post about that, I’m sure. For now I’m just going to paste these here and I will let MJ comment on the job.
I don’t know when that will be because he’s taking off for Dallas in the AM, to visit this site, present another project (I will post renderings of the presentation soon) and to have drinks with another potential commercial client, the lucky dog… VV
The happy architect in front of our office, soon to be former office… (More on that soon. I think we found the perfect space!!!) Although, I’ll be very sad to see this building go, it’s a 50’s gem. and it’s a crime to touch it… unless they do something brilliant with it (let’s hope.)
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