JAX Chamber: Downtown’s New Front Door
January 20, 2012 – 11:06 am | No Comment

In the spring of 2011 we responded to a request for proposals from the JAX Chamber, titled Downtown’s New Front Door, a Project to Inspire Revitalization.  The Chamber knew that numerous building systems in their …

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florida carbon challenge update: where we finished
January 17, 2011 – 8:48 am | 4 Comments
florida carbon challenge update: where we finished

Yesterday was quite action-packed. During the day we attended the International Builders’ Show in Orlando where we happened to meet Norm Abram (Greg is still gushing), and then in the evening we finally got …

Florida Carbon Challenge: We’ve Won!….Something.
January 6, 2011 – 4:15 pm | One Comment
Florida Carbon Challenge: We’ve Won!….Something.

Back in late October we attended the APA – The Engineered Wood Association’s Carbon Challenge Florida Design Competition Kickoff in at RiverTown in St. Johns, Florida and decided it would be fun to enter a …

Intellectual Virtuosity
November 5, 2010 – 12:00 pm | 3 Comments
Intellectual Virtuosity

As we continue to finalize the pricing  for the Walnut Street house, we thought it would be a good time to introduce you to Josh Mason. Josh will be creating “Intellectual Virtuosity”, the soundtrack for …

Friday Video: Radio Lab and Words
October 22, 2010 – 10:09 am | No Comment
Friday Video: Radio Lab and Words

Watch this video if you are not easily offended:

What this video if you are easily offended:

As we are hard at work drawing and pricing jobs we like to keep some creativity going on in the …

A fun Friday video!
October 1, 2010 – 2:42 pm | No Comment
A fun Friday video!

OK, the last couple of weeks have been quite a ride with Walnut Street house approval and the Roscoe Road construction contract being signed. So why this video? Because, it is a breath of fresh …

walnut house: modern sustainable home approved for Jacksonville’s Springfield Historic District!
September 24, 2010 – 11:05 am | 6 Comments
walnut house: modern sustainable home approved for Jacksonville’s Springfield Historic District!

You have to love it when your clients are as passionate as you are about a project! Video taken immediately following the approval by the Jacksonville HPC. Cory and Amanda, we love you guys!

Special thanks …

walnut house: certificate of appropriateness application and IKEA
September 1, 2010 – 10:54 am | 12 Comments
walnut house: certificate of appropriateness application and IKEA

Today we’d like to share the Certificate of Appropriateness application for the Walnut House that was turned in to the Historic Preservation office yesterday.  As we mentioned on August 18th,  we had a very productive …

Walnut House – Modern: Historic District
August 20, 2010 – 3:36 pm | 20 Comments
Walnut House – Modern: Historic District

We have started moving forward with our new home design for Jacksonville’s historic neighborhood of Springfield. We will continue posting not only images but we are going to attempt to start doing video interviews with …

Intelligentsia – Take Two
August 13, 2010 – 12:46 pm | 2 Comments
Intelligentsia – Take Two

This is a follow up to a previous post about Intelligentsia Coffee. Intelligentsia Coffee has hired The Department of the 4th Dimension to produce some videos about their in house processes. We have a previous …

Jean Prouve – A prefab visionary
June 25, 2010 – 3:52 pm | 2 Comments
Jean Prouve – A prefab visionary

Jean Prouve was a metal worker and designer that acquired notoriety for his collaboration with  his famous cousin Charles Edouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier). This weeks video presented by Wallpaper Magazine …