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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Home / Bags / An Interior Designer’s Bag An Interior Designer’s Bag Bob Borson — September 13, 2013 — 9 Comments As part of an ongoing photo essay of sorts, I have been showing the working contents of various design and construction related professionals. Louboutin Tote 2. Nikon D5100 3.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Home / Bags / A Graphic Designer’s Bag A Graphic Designer’s Bag Bob Borson — September 28, 2013 — 7 Comments It’s time for another entry in the ongoing series I am running where we get to look at the working contents of various design and construction related professionals. Thank-you for sharing.

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JUNE 5, 2014

Support AEC Care’s 2014 Project and Give Children a Solid Foundation “All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.” She’s volunteering her time and expertise again this year, and will be the design team’s lead architect and project manager.

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MARCH 18, 2014

and it would be placed into the interior side of the window frame up on the bell tower. Since you are not answering my last comment I think you are doing this blog not to hear also a critical voice but just to praise your posts. Incidentally, cool blog. Thanks – glad you like the blog. So therefore: “Wow Bob!

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JUNE 29, 2014

This is an interior view of the Farnsworth House – it is stunning to see in person and it was a project that I had never seen in person before but it was on my architecture bucket list ( now that would be a good idea for a blog post) I ate terribly when I was in Chicago despite the fact that it is fairly renown as a foodie-town.

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MAY 11, 2014

This is the 7th playhouse I have designed and built – and the evolution of this process on my thinking and design process is pretty apparent to anyone interested enough in studying my previous designs. Unfortunately, it makes designing these playhouses that much more difficult.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2013

As we were milling about waiting for the tour to begin, we were told that they were going to open the building up and give us an extensive look at the interior of the project. Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Buildings design , details , Modern Architecture , photography , Renzo Piano The Creative Process for an.

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JUNE 22, 2014

Home / Blog / #ArchiSketch #ArchiSketch Bob Borson — June 23, 2014 — 22 Comments As an architect, I tend to communicate through sketching – which is starting to make me a bit of a relic. quick sketch of an interior bed wall – I think it reads well enough Hashtags used: #frommydesk #sketch. Hashtags used: none.

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OCTOBER 6, 2013

There are times when I will pull out my ace in the hole and tell [ask] the client to do something just because I am telling them they this is really important and as their design professional I think they are making a mistake. I normally try and plead my case – they either buy into it or they don’t – and then I move on.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2014

I am currently sitting in my preferred “blog-writing” spot on the couch, it’s Sunday afternoon and rather than finish the post I’ve started, I’m more in the mood to work on my vacation plans. Why not do both … a blog post on my vacation? Would love to be tagging along for the ride.

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APRIL 9, 2014

Tim Barber I walked into my first design lab and the Professor said “Design a beautiful cube and bring it back at 8 O’clock tonight, then he walked out:” Talk about having no idea what to do. Man, I came into architecture to design buildings? Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.'

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Home / Bags / An Electrician’s Bag An Electrician’s Bag Bob Borson — December 18, 2013 — 5 Comments After a little break, it’s time for another entry into ongoing series I have been running where we get to take an inside look into the working contents of various design and construction related professionals.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Home / Design / Hatchet Bedrooms Hatchet Bedrooms Bob Borson — September 9, 2013 — 77 Comments “ Hatchet Bedroom ” Have you heard this phrase before? It has to do with bedroom design, specifically where the bed is placed in the bedroom. link] Amy Vermillion Interiors Hi Bob. New to your blog.

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MARCH 2, 2014

The “boxes” you see around the windows are envisioned as aluminum or steel plate – the geometry of this project is fairly rigid and we are accentuating the openings by designing a protruding enclosure around each penetration into the main volume of the house. im a non practicing architect and interior designer.

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JUNE 15, 2014

Since that time, the rest of the SIPs were put in place, the roof has gone on, interior electrical, HVAC and plumbing rough has been completed. The last site visit was to do an inspection on the installed aluminum window “boxes” that are a major design feature on this house.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

Fold the drawing in half so that the interior is folded towards the inside … Take the outside corners (1B and 3B) and fold them back to the right so that the right hand side of the title bar is exposed. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.' This technique works on any large format sheet of paper. But I may be wrong.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Home / Interior Design / Considering white marble counter tops? There are a lot of great products to use, your specifier, designer or installer should be able to help you choose the right one. The problem is that most readers – especially architects and designers – don’t know any different. Bob; Thanks.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2013

They robbers did not slash my furniture, break whatever they could, or spray paint any of my interiors. Would there be any chance that someone stumbled across your blog and found out about all the expensive equipment you own and decided to hit your home? I’d give you a computer, I enjoy your blog that much.

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EntreArchitect

APRIL 10, 2018

After obtaining my license as an Architect in New York, I brainstormed several long term goals and decided to start a personal blog, develop design projects, and learn everything that I could about starting an architecture firm. Will this be a traditional design-bid-build project? Or will it be a design-build?

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

The Billionaire’s Row mansion is designed by SOATA with interiors by CK Architecture. The glamourous building, which was owned by Qatar’s Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, has attracted a roll call of famous names and features 1600s frescos and a design by Versailles architect Louis le Vau. Hôtel Lambert in Paris.

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MARCH 30, 2014

SIPs are a high performance building system where the interior structural portion of the wall is assembled like an ice cream sandwich using a 7/16″ layer of oriented strand board (OSB) as the outside of the sandwich, and in our case, a 5 1/2″ interior cavity filled with styrofoam, which would be the ice cream.

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DECEMBER 29, 2013

Home / Blog / Out with the Old, In with the New Out with the Old, In with the New Bob Borson — December 30, 2013 — 58 Comments It’s pre-dawn on a Sunday and I am currently sitting in my kitchen, the rest of my house still in bed, trying to get my bearings in place before the new year kicks off in earnest.

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JUNE 1, 2014

The tree where the bees have set up shop is probably about 6′ in circumference and there is a knot towards the bottom of the trunk that allows access to what is apparently a hollow interior. I just assumed that they had finally outgrown the interior of this tree trunk and moved on to greener pastures. I was wrong.

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OCTOBER 20, 2013

One side effect to having the graphics and pen weights in balance, is that you can incorporate more information into a single drawing and still have the document be legible click to enlarge We are still working on designing the symbols we are using in our reflected ceiling plans. Window tags _in plan??_ Rob Kuhn Also? For shame, Bob.

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JANUARY 5, 2014

Home / Blog / Goals versus Resolutions Goals versus Resolutions Bob Borson — January 6, 2014 — 21 Comments This is the time of year when people tend to identify something they want to change about themselves and they make a “New Years Resolution” Let me go on the record as saying that I HATE New Years resolutions.

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JUNE 25, 2014

BufordHawthorne Homebuilders have built a playhouse for me that I have personally designed every single year since I’ve started creating these playhouses and it has been a terrific relationship. Today, however, I thought I would focus on the playhouse I designed for this years event – the ‘Lantern Playhouse.’

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

The value of your material donations will vary depending on your location, the age and condition of the your home and it’s salvaged materials, the type of exterior cladding, interior wall finish, trim work, countertops, landfill rates, etc. A proper Design process that you follow or that must be followed.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Home / Blog / Responsibility: Don’t Be a Dunce Responsibility: Don’t Be a Dunce Bob Borson — September 16, 2013 — 24 Comments Did you know that the word “dunce” is meant to refer to someone who is a slow learner? But wait, that’s right … those people don’t have blogs.

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OCTOBER 17, 2013

I will probably select a project to highlight every now and then to showcase the firms work as well as provide some insight into the creative and decision-making process that produces the work we hope to be known for designing. When a customer comes to you, is the landscape design part of the overall package? link] Bridget Willard WOW!

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

As part of the ongoing series I am running, I have been showing the working contents of various design and construction related professionals.So far we have Architect Architecture Student Drywall Contractor Interior Designer and today its an architectural photographer. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.'

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

Home / Design / KHouse Modern – Progress Update 03 KHouse Modern – Progress Update 03 Bob Borson — October 14, 2013 — 36 Comments If your new here at Life of an Architect, say hello to the KHouse Modern project. In the original design, we had this entire walkway as a cantilevered concrete walkway.

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MARCH 27, 2014

They don’t realize how difficult it is to stand up in front of a room full of your classmates and professors and “explain” why you designed your project the way you did. One looked at the designer after the presentation and said, “The design sucks.” I also witnessed a couple of bad clients, too.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Home / Competition / Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition 2014 Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition 2014 Bob Borson — March 20, 2014 — 39 Comments Of all the amazing things I am fortunate to do, the Life of an Architect Playhouse Design Competition is right up there at the top.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

There are currently 7 fairly large models stashed all over the office and despite the fact that the staff is almost sitting on top of one another, we are okay taking up precious real estate because we think these models send the right sort of message and help set the tone for the type of design culture we want to maintain in the office.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

Lets start with Interior Elevations - I like my interior elevations to be at 3/8″ – 1′-0″ scale. In the detail I shown immediately above, there is a custom brake metal flashing detail I designed that protects and closes off the end grain of the wood siding that wraps the house. Just one peccadillo.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

On the inside there the interior column details and Renaissance style colonnades serving as the perimeter circulation. I especially like the architect’s narrative that relates the building to a rectangular stone mass that when carved and chiseled away, creates the building’s interior. link] James Mehaffey C’mon. Fallingwater.

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JANUARY 26, 2014

Not everyone has the opportunity to work with a ridiculously highly skilled, design-oriented architect … and a good looking amusing one at that … I even provide my services to her at a huge discount. If you are an architect or interior designer, certified kitchen designer, etc.,

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