Modern Torres house with beautiful outdoor lighting design by GLR Arquitectos. Lighting makes a big difference in how you feel about your home. Lighting helps you perform tasks more easily, and makes you feel safer and more comfortable. Exterior lighting should not only enhance the beauty of your home, but should also add safety and security. Exterior lighting can make a dramatic first impression. (more…)
Tip-toeing to the tipping point of sustainable buildings and a solar future. That’s one way to describe current activity in local construction.
While most homes and commercial buildings constructed over the past few years rarely go above mandated codes for energy efficiency, some daring developers are pushing the envelope.
Taking risks. Using innovative building practices. Sketching the promise of near-Zero Energy construction for the Georgia coast.
“I’m a plant man.” That’s not only a definition of himself, it also defines Gregg Bayard’s philosophy. A burly former forester and horticulturist, comfortable under a fine patina of dust from a roadway under construction, he and his business partner Curry Wadsworth, with 20 years experience as a landscaper, are turning a heavily wooded, former fishing camp on Salt Creek into a housing development overlooking — and preserving — the marsh. (more…)
AUGUSTA — Community leaders and the public oohed and aahed over a three-dimensional model of a Lithgow Library that could be.
Featuring three gables along State Street and a rear facade that mirrors the front entrance, the model and interior pictures were the highlights of a public display of renovation plans presented Thursday at the city-owned library.
“It sort of replicates the dimensions and size of the original building so it doesn’t overwhelm it,” said Elizabeth Pohl, library director.
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Custom-designed homes can be risky, but there could be a big payoff
Independent Austin architects and designers are making footprints on the cityscape in thoughtful and fiercely original ways.
Drive down a street in Hyde Park lined with bungalows and you’ll probably find a modest jewel of a house tucked behind a tangle of trees.
Who built that? Who lives there? The unfussy lines and calm silhouette say modern, but the tawny limestone and rustic expression are pure Austin. The house is earthy and simple, yet sophisticated. It doesn’t shout, but it grabs your attention. (more…)
As the Final Four approaches, it seems fitting to relive in basketball terms how Ratio Architects Inc. came off the bench in dramatic fashion to save a high-profile downtown project after the star had fouled out.
The Indianapolis-based architectural firm played that role in 2004 after sketches from the original out-of-town architect designing the downtown headquarters of Simon Property Group Inc. failed to impress corporate executives. Ratio had one week to deliver, and did.
But while the firm’s portfolio is full of prominent work, its ability to outshine larger, national rivals might have helped it land the starting assignment on perhaps its most prestigious yet—the expansion of the Indiana Convention Center.
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