Tag Archives: process

The Big Drip by the River

March 19, 2010 – 4:03 pm

Spring comes earlier for maple sappers.  Robins or green shoots in the garden means a missed maple sugaring season.  The first unseasonably warm day in February, or even January, is our harbinger of Spring.  I panic, thinking I’ve missed the early run with highest sugar content destined to become Grade A light amber.  I tapped [...]

By Alan Paradis | Posted in Around Centerbrook | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Making Design Accessible

March 16, 2010 – 9:40 am

To mangle an old saw, the stakeholders are NOT always right.  But they do have opinions and ideas, oftentimes quite insightful ones.  At our peril do we architects overlook, or lord over our clients, and building inhabitants as well, in the design effort.  When said stakeholders include citizens wielding the franchise, as is the case [...]

By Chad Floyd | Posted in Process, Public Architecture | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

A Symphony with an Ocean View

January 14, 2010 – 11:28 am

As an architect involved with projects great and small, I am always struck by how disparate elements come together to work towards a distant and unifying goal.  An aerial view might reveal all of the “usual suspects” – designers, engineers, consultants, carpenters, painters, pool builders etc. – scurrying around below like monomaniacal worker ants, somehow [...]

By Peter Majewski | Posted in Process | Also tagged , | Comments (2)