Centerbrook’s Graphic Designer and manager of the Centerbrook website and blog.
A violent storm last week blew our wisteria right off its trellis. Once the rain soaked deck dried up, a crew of our strongest and limberest architects hoisted the hardy plant back onto its perch. Being neither strong nor limber, I chose the much lighter video camera… The wisteria, shown below in full bloom, is [...]
Since a photograph is purportedly worth a thousand words – and as the Graphic Designer here, I’m much better with pictures: So I’ll keep this short. Architects tend to be proud of what they design, and they commission photographers who specialize in capturing the built environment to document their work for various purposes. What we [...]
December 15, 2010 – 4:41 pm
In the clip above, Master Model Maker Patrick McCauley explains his process for planking the deck of Aphrodite. Long and sleek, well accessorized, and built for speed, she is the center of attention wherever she goes. Her torpedo stern allows her to maintain a horizontal posture in the water even at speeds of 40 knots. [...]
November 10, 2010 – 1:25 pm
New London’s Garde Art Center, which screens films and hosts a Broadway Series of shows such as “The Wizard of Oz,” served as a screen itself as visual effects company Killer Minnow projected an animated promotion for the play “Spamalot” against the building’s southern façade. It was jolly good – click and see for yourself. [...]
November 4, 2010 – 3:17 pm
Be a fly on the wall and watch Patrick McCauley hand-craft decorative brass capitals for the columns at the Carl Hansen Student Center at Quinnipiac University. Mr. McCauley is the Master Model Maker and Product Designer at Centerbrook Architects.
August 13, 2010 – 4:27 pm
In this video, Partner Mark Simon visits the Lori Warner Gallery in Chester, Connecticut to talk about his award-winning ‘Slapstick Table’ designed for a client who wanted a table that was at the same time rustic and elegant. The Slapstick Table and benches are available for purchase from Curran Online or from the Lori Warner [...]
Not to be upstaged by our resident American Egret, two new visitors have been hanging around this summer by our fishing hole. These two elegant wading birds – a mother and an immature Black-crowned Night Heron – are shown below perched in trees overlooking the Centerbrook dam. The photo above is the young one atop [...]
