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OCTOBER 15, 2013

I still have my fingers crossed that one day it will but this isn’t a real house at this moment (remember “ It doesn’t count if it doesn’t get built “?) One thing that I have to be mindful of is the geo-tagging capability that programs have built into them.

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JUNE 25, 2014

So this is the Lantern House … simple and straight-forward but it will meet all my requirements. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Some well placed lights will let the inside glow at night – which should be pretty dynamic, especially when viewed from a distance.

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OCTOBER 13, 2013

(note – you can click on any of these images and a new window will open with the images 2x larger) This is a look down the driveway – it’s really the service corridor to the house. as he comes and goes from the house. This is a look towards the front elevation of the house.

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MAY 11, 2014

Home / Life in General / The Lantern House The Lantern House Bob Borson — May 12, 2014 — 19 Comments The Life of an Architect playhouse competition for 2014 is coming to a close – all the entries for this year are required to me in my email inbox by midnight tonight (May 12th). Beautiful work as always Bob!

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Greene & Greene would have an elegantly-jointed card, with an elaborate scene and script in a mix of carving and staining, and the envelope would be pegged to the frame, and the whole assembly would still weight less than an ounce, so as to need only an orfinary stamp. ” [I do know its spelled sleigh.]

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

includes: livescribe 2gb pen 3 rotring mechanical pencils in HB in different line weights.3,5 Bag is a Mamba Slim by Booq bags 2. Light Green Hard Drive by Ryde design 3. Aviator Shades: Rayban 4. Bamboo Wacom touch pen 5. Apple Macbook pro 15″ 6. Moleskin San Francisco limited edition notebook 7. 7 Sony 8gb usb Staedtler.3mm

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APRIL 27, 2014

A whole lot of something has been going on, but this house has a fairly significant and complicated structural system for a residential project and the work is deliberate and methodical. You start to get a feel for the house as you can physically move around the site and imagine the spaces (i.e.

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APRIL 6, 2014

TIP #03: “Incorporate the Use of Pen Weight” This technique is a biggie … you have to use line weight to help convey depth to your sketch. Hope the house turns out well for you. Thanks for the reminder on line weights. The fact that it works makes it a worthwhile process.

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JANUARY 5, 2014

There are a lot of things that aren’t quite right with out bathroom space and after living in the house for almost 5 years, I think my wife is right … this has got to be dealt with. Lastly, my wife has asked me to start working on the plans to renovate our Master Bathroom … it’s a tall order.

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APRIL 7, 2022

Stephen Stimson, FASLA, and Lauren Stimson, ASLA, built a new house and utility building on property Steve’s family has long farmed. Trail” (leading to schist outcrops), the “Dash Line” (a boardwalk to a sauna, to be raced along in winter), and the “Big Zipper” (a long staircase linking the house site to a stream). BY JONATHAN LERNER.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

This is a print out from a SketchUp study model and I added some pen weight and shading, and some profile lines to help where the section was cut. This was a quick plan study that I prepared so that I could show the client how we could add another bedroom to this one area of the house. This sketch is also from the KHouse Modern.

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JANUARY 19, 2014

I just assumed that professional kitchens operated just like the kitchen in my house – which meant you washed your own dishes and since I really didn’t like washing dishes, I decided that becoming a chef wasn’t the career path for me. Last party I had at my house, there was a mob around the wet bar. Happy cooking!

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JUNE 11, 2014

All this soil movement adds up to cracks in the house. I had a home inspector tell me, as he was inspecting a house I was in the process of buying, that the house had structural issues because there wasn’t dirt under the grade beam where he had checked. Home Inspector : This house has structural issues.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

” #8 An Exercise Room – a room dedicated to exercise, often outfitted with a treadmill, weights, or other specific type of equipment. This house was probably in the $2M dollar range and we were having a conversation about the kitchen appliance package. 34% of respondents felt that a game room was “desirable/essential.”

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MARCH 18, 2014

The Charter can be found in the Chapter House. Not surprising that they basically gutted the interior to reduce the weight … but it’s been there for over 800 years so #scoreboard Bill Reeves WOW, the views from the bell tower are breath taking. Your photos are amazing and rival some professional ones.

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JUNE 18, 2014

They never did break me but the entire process was incredibly stressful, I lost a lot of sleep and weight while freaking out over this project … I hated it and I wondered constantly why karma had decided that I needed some massive cosmic smack-down. I can see it three houses down the road. Wife’s passive response: “OK, honey.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

I know the Rural Studio and $20k house folks seemed to reference it at times in their posts. And my last tip for the day is this – it’s fairly self-explanatory: Cheers, Consider sharing More Email Digg Print Share on Tumblr In Architects , Career , Do you want to be an Architect?

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MARCH 30, 2014

Almost any article you read regarding energy-efficient construction, how tight the house is to air leakage is a huge consideration in the final thermal performance. The image above is just one of several images we received, you can see how the house comes together using several individual panels.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

multi-family housing on the dark side of the moon”) rather than a project type that is rooted in more practical solutions (i.e. We were discussing an overdesigned roof where the engineer did not know that weights for polyisocyanurate roof insulation and other roofing materials might be given by the square foot, square (100 sq.

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OCTOBER 27, 2013

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. Mies van der Rohe was right when he said “God is in the details.” ie @ 1:100 or 1/8″:1′: 1. 002″ (all hatches projected and cut) 2.

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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. How do you do it?

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