This past week while in Chicago we got the chance to visit the classic modern residential masterpiece by Mies van der Rohe. It is located in Plano, IL. Dr. Farnsworth was a physician who did a lot of research wanted a cabin about an hour away from the hospital where she worked in Chicago. She met Mies at a dinner party and hired him to design the home for her. The glass house is raised to avoid the floods of the river as well as give the best views of the river from everywhere in the home.
Happy Birthday to our client Bettie Dixon. We hope you have a wonderful celebration. We designed a home for Bettie and her husband Sewell ocean front at 99 Surfsong, on Kiawah Island, SC. We traveled twice to the South of … Continue reading
Today is Modernist architect Richard Meier’s 81st birthday. He uses porcelain white panels on the exterior or almost all of his buildings or uses white stone on others.
Here is some images of his Douglas house. Its dramatically situated in Harbor Springs Michigan on an isolated lot sloping down to Lake Michigan.
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Julie Conard our intern architect got married this past Sunday in downtown Charleston. She only had to postpone it one day to Sunday. It was a wonderful ceremony at the Circular Church and the first wedding anyone had been to where … Continue reading
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Kim-Marie, Hope you have an incredible birthday!! We designed a Dutch Cape style home for Kim-Marie and her active young family in Cassique on Kiawah Island. Here was the original sketch we presented. Second is the how it was completed. … Continue reading
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We were very lucky to escape with only minor issues to our office. Unfortunately, we lost so many really beautiful and huge live oak trees. Mother Nature is amazing even blowing the door mat off the front porch and the … Continue reading
We are designing a new home for a couple from Charlotte, literally on the top of a mountain in Lansing, North Carolina. You can see Tennessee, South Carolina and North Carolina from this vantage point. We are using ICF foundation. That stands for insulated concrete forms. This is a cost effective way of providing insulation and formwork for the poured concrete. Our clients were teasing us saying that they hire us and we build their home out of styrofoam. We will be cladding the exterior with stone. The beauty of this system is that you can add the steel reinforcing required to support this retaining wall. Because the of the high winds of the location we have partially depressed the home into the top of the mountain. We are so fortunate to be given such an amazing site to design a home.
View of Retaining wall outside of garage.
ICF foundation at guest rooms.
Incredible view to the South from top of the mountain.
View to the East. Pretty magical.
Close up showing the steel reinforcing near the guest rooms.
View from the entry towards the South at the top of the mountain.
Overall view showing the extent of the basement walk out.
Here are some photos of the home we designed for Sharon at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove near Asheville NC.
