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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 | No 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 …

the urban facelift project #15 (1460 main street)
June 3, 2011 – 1:52 pm | 2 Comments
the urban facelift project #15 (1460 main street)

Living in Springfield, I drive past this building quite a bit and am a bit smitten, actually.  It really could be something special with a bit of care.  The highly detailed corner can be used …

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 …

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 | 21 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 …

CDG update: Roscoe House, Videos, and the Intro of Modern Design in a Historic District
May 7, 2010 – 3:24 pm | 4 Comments
CDG update: Roscoe House, Videos, and the Intro of Modern Design in a Historic District

We are back from a  little hiatus from posting with some exciting things getting ready to happen.Things have been a little crazy around here but we have finally got our hands around it. The Roscoe …