Happy birthday to Sharon Ritchey. We were privileged to design a custom home in Walnut Cove near Asheville for Sharon and her spouse Julia. It was a sloping site down to a stream in the rear with a wonderful mountain … Continue reading
A contemporary home we designed is coming out of the ground in Florence, SC. It is for two doctors and we have designed an updated “rain porch” home. This is a unique architectural style from the Pee Dee Region where the home is being built. For the porches on these homes the columns go from the ground to the roof and the porch is pulled back from these so the edges of the porch don’t get wet during a storm. Therefore the name “Rain Porch” home. The home is being built by Jody Lane and ReMark Studio is the landscape architects on the job.
Rear of home showing large rear porches and retention pond.
View of front from the street.
Close up of the front “rain porch”
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.
Antoni Gaudí was born 163 years ago in Spain. (1852 – 1926) His architecture showed his passion for architecture, nature and religion. Below is the nave of his masterpiece Sagra Familia, its hyperbolic paraboloid shapes inspired by nature and the columns symbolizing trees rising to the sky.
Charles and his wife and collaborator Ray Eames are considered one of the most important American designers of the 20th Century. The Eames chair (pictured here) is a classic design that is still popular and in production. He made modernism acceptable to non-elite Americans. His driving principal was a life made better through design and technology.
This contemporary home at 40 Ocean Course Drive received Preliminary Approval today from the Kiawah Architectural Review Board. This home has breathtaking views of the Ocean Course golf course and the Atlantic Ocean beyond.
Lexington Furniture’s has a new contemporary line of Tommy Bahama furniture that recently shown at the Las Vegas market. They have been shooting the brochure at one of our homes on Kiawah at 8 Ocean Course Drive.
Here is the great room with our bronze clad fireplace as the focal point.
