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Architecture
Our work will always be anchored by our formal design training in architecture. From an award-winning single-family residential remodel & addition in Seattle, to conceptual mixed-use & urban planning projects, to architectural sketches and renderings for marketing & promotional materials, this collection represents design in the context of the inhabitable built environment.
Our architecture portfolio projects.
Full-Phase Residential Architecture
92nd Street Residential Remodel & Addition
An award-winning residential remodel & addition in Seattle that transformed a ’50s-era house overdue for an update into a dream home for a new couple.
Design for a Residential Remodel
151st Street Master Bath Redesign
A designer master bath remodel with a free-standing tub, custom glass and limestone tile shower, and custom cabinetry in a Pacific Northwest style home.
Design for an Innovation Incubator
The Architectures of Additive Manufacturing
A study of the emerging role of community-based additive manufacturing facilities seeking to understand how the design of a building can support innovation.
Design for a Public Library
A Modern Library for a Rural Community
An architectural design concept for a modern library in a rural community that supports the hybridization of traditional, current, and emerging media.
Sketch Renderings to Support a Funding Campaign
Wellsprings Friends School Architectural Sketch Renderings
A series of architectural sketch renderings to promote a proposed new building to investors. (Architecture by STUDIO-E Architecture, landscape architecture by Lovinger Robertson Landscape Architects.)
Our architecture posts.
Architecture
92nd Street Remodel & Addition: Before & After
Nothing like some dramatic “Before & After” photos to document a major residential remodel and addition! Explore everything from the front entry to the master bath – complete with a narrative about what we changed, and why – and learn what it took to give a house with an odd history a whole new chapter.
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Architecture
Quick Fixes for Workspaces: The Creative Team Room at Portent, Inc.
Whether we realize it or not, we are all affected by our environment, both physically and emotionally. It impacts the work we do, and how we feel while doing it. Luckily, even a difficult space can be improved with a few, basic, low impact, low cost interventions.
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Architecture, Digital
What Does Architecture Have to Do with Web Design & Development?
There’s a good reason that information technology professionals have co-opted the terminology of traditional architects and engineers. The processes of creating physical spaces and information spaces require similar strategies for problem-solving, throughout design and development, and both are focused on handling complexity elegantly.
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Architecture
92nd Street Remodel & Addition: Early Design Sketches
Designing a house is no small endeavor, and visualizing ideas is key. Not everyone can imagine a space from an architectural drawing, so quickly executed graphic sketches can be very useful to communicate ideas as the design process unfolds. This collection explores an early phase of design for the 92nd Street Remodel & Addition.
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Architecture, Conceptual
Post-Production Rendering: Before & After
Through the fog of the last term of architecture school, I realized I didn’t have any photorealistic renderings in my portfolio, and so, I dipped my toe in to explore what it takes to convert an image from barren to believable. What does it take? Boatloads, and boatloads of post-production.
Read more.Our architecture recognition stories.
A REX Award for the 92nd Street Remodel & Addition
The local Master Builders Association awarded this project with a 2015 REX Award for Remodeling Excellence.
Remodeling Excellence for Whole House Remodel!
REX Award for 92nd Street Remodel & Addition
Our 92nd Street Remodel & Addition won a 2015 REX Award for Rebuild Excellence, in collaboration with Chermak Construction!
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