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Innovative LED lighting is the signature feature of this model condominium in Austin, Texas. Residents can create any combination of colors depending on weather, season, and mood. Energy efficient and lasting 50,000 hours, these new digital lighting systems illuminate white spaces.
Published widely, the Alofsin Residence nestles into the landscape of one of Austin, Texas’ highest summits, Mt. Larson. Conceived around a courtyard with pond, the house both recalls in its materials and details the rich vernacular of Texas architecture, while echoing the timeless resonance of a Pompeian villa and Japanese architecture.
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A large residence with superb city views, this house is configured around a pond with cascading waterfall on a steeply sloping site. Pitched roofs funnel rainwater to a 10,000 gallon cistern hidden beneath the courtyard deck. A quiet hidden rock garden on the north side of the house separates the master bedroom wing from the living room and library. Local limestone articulates the exterior.
A rare modern house in historic Santa Fe, New Mexico, this residence uses all the principles of traditional adobe construction but recasts them in modern materials. This house uses brick masonry and careful siting to take advantage of solar gain in winter and maintain cool spaces in summer. Views from interior spaces and deck onto a vast panorama of landscape and mountains.
A gate house for a farm in a rural historic district near the Hudson River in upstate New York, this project evolved from a dialogue between designer and client, a private art dealer. He required a design that sympathized with nearby 18th and 19th century farm houses and barns. We imagined he was a retired country doctor seeking an appropriate abode c. 1850 and read together the writings of A. J. Downing on American architecture and landscape design. The result was my interpretation of an American bracketed style house that blends with its context yet has open flowing spaces, connecting interior to exterior. The program included dining room, sitting room, kitchen, two bedrooms, small office, and full basement for storage of paintings and furniture.
Project for the main house on an estate in Dutchess County, New York.
An L-shaped one-story house ideal for a relatively flat site, this residence provides highly efficient use of space with comfortable access to the out of doors, bedrooms, and fireplace.
Approximately 1,800 square feet it is an ideal house for a couple, small family, or retirees. The inner side of the L includes a patio, location for grill or barbecue as well as a garden.
The design of this Gate House, originally for an estate in the Hudson River valley of New York, needed to fit into the context of historic rural neighborhood defined by farms, apple orchards, and the remarkable nineteenth century architecture in the manner of A.J. Downing and immediate adjacent a rare late eighteenth-early nineteenth century barn.
A 3,000 square foot residence ideal for a family of three on a sloping wooded hill site. The project includes a spacious art studio, decks, terraces, and landscape features.
Confronting the challenge of many home owners who live on desirable wooded sites but have houses built in the late 1960s, Dr. Betty Sue Flowers opted for an addition to her existing house. While the lot configuration made an addition challenging, the additional space encompassing a large library/media room that converts into a guest bedroom, spacious bath and new storage closet also allowed for a reconfiguration of the entry to the house.
Two rooms, one above the other to provide additional living space and room for extensive collections of objects, plus screened porch. The house is located in a track house subdivision, and the view looks into a green belt.
