one thousand crane
A late entry to the World Trade Center tower competition. awards American Society of Architectural Ilustrators – Architecture in Perspective 21 – Award of Excellence – 2005 – ONE Thousand Crane
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velora pass
awards American Society of Architectural Ilustrators – Architecture in Perspective 20 – Award of Excellence – 2004 – velora pass
riveredge
RiverEdge is a mixed use development in an emerging arts district and underutilized industrial area bordering the Trinity River Corridor and downtown Dallas. Faced with physical and cultural challenges, the project employees music, literature, and architecture to resolve the problem and elevate three forms of art beyond their singular existence. The story of Scheherazade and […]
st. elizabeth ann seton
awards AIA Dallas Chapter – Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition – Juror’s Citation – 2001 – st. elizabeth ann seton American Society of Architectural Ilustrators – Architecture in Perspective 17 – Selected Artists – 2001 – st. elizabeth ann seton
alchemist
The connection between music and architecture is extensive. Tectonics are translated in both theory and vocabulary. Scale, structure, color, theme, motive, articulation, rhythm are just a few of the linguistic correlations between the two arts. But the relationship goes far beyond semantics. Architecture has been referred to as “frozen music”. And music has been alluded […]
villa 2k
From the very beginning, the Lewis/Colvin residence was thought of as the ideal villa. During the first visit with the clients they clearly stated the need for a modern house made of modern materials. “I don’t understand why people are still building houses out of sticks” they declared. It was our familiarity in adventurous use […]
retrospect poster competition
To the clever observer it has become apparent that the architectural landscape in Dallas has taken a turn for the worse. Ignorant influences have allowed our city to become a wasteland of trite and archaic moirés. Edifices, that are nothing more than facades of some distant juvenile memory, betray themselves as thieves of a dead […]
park pavilion competition
While we live in our technological world of machines and conveniences, nature goes by unnoticed. Nature now exists as a microcosm. Our idea of nature ceases to exist as we fill our cities with confined and controlled topiaries. It is often monumentalized in medians and “greenspaces”; treated as a relic of a lost civilization. True […]
lindsley park
Lindsley Park improvements began as a community based development project for this neighborhood park. Located in East Dallas, the Hollywood-Santa Monica Neighborhood Association raised funds through donations, community fund-raisers, and matching public funds.The design was provided pro-bona for phase one construction. Phase one construction incorporated new playground equipment, safety fallzones, benches, and concrete paths. The […]
schooler residence
The program called for a weekend lake house located in Lake Worth, TX. The client was a single woman but liked to entertain and wanted at least two guest bedrooms. Once this was established the client made two challenging specifics. The first was to have a wall at least fifteen feet tall to exhibit an […]