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the urban facelift project #17 (101 e bay street – bostwick)
December 7, 2012 – 3:37 pm | 2 Comments
the urban facelift project #17 (101 e bay street – bostwick)

You really didn’t think that we’d go all the way through 2012 without posting an urban facelift project did you? If you’re in Jacksonville, then you should be familiar with the “jaguar building” as …

the kona school and go skate day in hemming plaza
June 12, 2012 – 9:56 am | No Comment
the kona school and go skate day in hemming plaza

Grassroot efforts to bring excitement and events to activate downtown Jacksonville seems to be happening more and more, with the latest one happening this past weekend – Downtown’s First Food Truck Rally.  We were bummed …

coa approved by historic preservation commission for julie’s urban grocery
April 2, 2012 – 2:29 pm | No Comment
coa approved by historic preservation commission for julie’s urban grocery

We’re thrilled to both share some of the images that we presented in the Certificate of Appropriateness application for Julie’s Urban Grocery, our adaptive reuse (although it was originally a grocery when it was first …

verre de mer residence: florida’s first passive house
February 20, 2012 – 12:57 pm | One Comment
verre de mer residence: florida’s first passive house

Unfortunately, what was to be Florida’s first passive house will not make it off the drawing boards, but we wanted to share what the home was looking like and a few of the challenges we …

JAX Chamber: Downtown’s New Front Door
January 20, 2012 – 11:06 am | One Comment
JAX Chamber: Downtown’s New Front Door

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 …

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 | 13 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 | 23 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 …

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 …

Visual Acoustics – The modernism of Julius Schulman
June 16, 2010 – 9:19 am | 4 Comments
Visual Acoustics – The modernism of Julius Schulman

I must have been asleep at the wheel, but last night I realized that Visual Acoustics – The Modernism of Julius Schulman is available to watch instantly on Netflix. This is what the film’s web …