Preston Hollow Residence wins Record Houses 2020
Our newly-completed Preston Hollow Residence was selected as one of 2020’s “Record Houses” by Architectural Record Magazine. This is quite an honor, as only seven houses are selected each year in all of North America. Architectural Record has been published since 1891, and is the primary documentary record of the architectural profession. You can see […]
2019 AIA Design Award Winners
We’re thrilled to announce that three of our projects just received Design Awards from the American Institute of Architects. The Sangre de Cristo House, Carpenter Hotel, and Casa Xixim were featured at the awards ceremony in Austin, with Casa Xixim receiving additional recognition for excellence in sustainability. We want to thank our great clients and […]
Travel and Leisure “Best New Hotels of 2019”
The Carpenter Hotel in Austin was just named one of the “best new hotels in the world” by Travel and Leisure Magazine. It’s a very “Austin” place – an assemblage of new and old buildings that is centered around a renovated 1949 Carpenter’s Union hall and surrounded by heritage pecan trees. Take a look here: […]
2018 A-list award winner
We’re proud to be a recent recipient of an A-list award from @home magaizine. This award is given to outstanding achievements in architecture and design in Connecticut, and we won for the design of our New Canaan House. We’ll post a link to the awards articles as soon as they are available.
New zeroHouse Model 3
We’ve updated and improved the original zeroHouse! It’s now larger and more appropriate for full-time occupancy, yet still retains its iconic design and wide variety of sustainability options. This all-new zeroHouse Model 3 defines the future of comfortable compact living. We are currently developing several zeroHouse Model 3 versions for sites in Austin, Texas, but […]
C-Frame Home in Fort Worth, TX
Here’s an early rendering of our new C-Frame house in Fort Worth, TX. This C-Frame home was designed with deeply shaded terraces to minimize direct sun within the interior, while allowing for a lot of covered outdoor living space. The house is cantilevered over, and opens out onto a beautiful rolling meadow and a stream […]
Pier drilling at the Carpenter
The big machines are out this week at the site of our Carpenter Hotel. Pier drilling has started, and these augers are boring out 36″ wide, 60′ deep holes that will soon be filled with steel and concrete. The Carpenter will feature a new four-story hotel, as well as a restaurant complex in an adjacent […]
New Radbrook Home
We’ve just received design approval for this dynamic new home in Dallas, and will start construction in a few months. The house features a very private street-facing facade clad in hand-made Roman brick, and a bright, open, double-height interior with 20’ceilings in the main living spaces. We’ll post more renderings of the design soon.
Progress at Preston Hollow
Our Preston Hollow house in Dallas is progressing nicely. It features a custom-corrugated concrete wall that will be almost 14′ high and 225′ long when complete. The test sample of the concrete patterning was just unveiled and looks exactly like we’d hoped. If you’d like to see some renderings of the finished house, you can […]
Sundial House Receives Award
We’re proud to announce that our Sundial House in Santa Fe has won this year’s Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture, sponsored by the Thornburg Foundation, and the University of New Mexico. The prize is given to a single work of architecture in New Mexico that represents the best in modern design, and expresses a […]