Life of an Architect

DECEMBER 10, 2014

What is it like to be an architectural intern? Let’s pretend that you’re an architectural intern … highly educated, extremely dedicated and yet – not an architect. 9:25pm CST “Welcome to Dallas. A day in the life of an Architectural Intern … and by “day”, I mean 39 hours.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Paul, Dallas-Ft. Image: Richard Hughes/Element 5 Architecture Some pests are just a nuisance, but others can cause serious problems. Eliminate potential food sources for pests by keeping kitchen counters clean, disposing of garbage regularly in sealed receptacles and storing food in airtight containers,” he advises.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 5, 2017

From an architectural standpoint, the pass-thru space to the right of the front door isn’t just for visual architectural trickery. This is the kitchen – pretty straightforward, efficient, and clean. While I returned back to Dallas on Saturday, they are still there to coordinate some final moving parts.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

JUNE 14, 2019

Red, white and blue colors best represent Dallas,” Yeo says. Nashville also embraces colors from the Benjamin Moore Historical Collection, which was inspired by 18 th – and 19th-century architecture,” Yeo says. This can be anything from a favorite fabric to the colors in your kitchen countertops,” Yeo says.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 25, 2014

Since this is really about the final product, rather than some purely abstract architectural idealized version of a playhouse, the cast of characters that make up the judging panel bring a myriad of talents and skills to the conversation. Louis, Missouri Architectural designer/coffee snob working on completing my license (5 down, 2 to go).

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 30, 2014

Home / Kitchen / The Great Kitchen Adventure Starts Now The Great Kitchen Adventure Starts Now Bob Borson — May 1, 2014 — 68 Comments Kitchens are one of the most important rooms of the house. I want to know what you do in your own kitchen, patterns you’ve seen, experiences you’ve had.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

” This report was basically a survey that asked buyers to rate about a ba-jillion different features on a prepared list of items (windows, doors, kitchens, baths, specialty rooms, etc.) 4 An Outdoor Kitchen – Now we’re cooking! million] Her : Oooo, look at this kitchen, it’s gorgeous!

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 11, 2018

The first of which is was most recently focused on in the new series “ Architectural Sketches ” … in this case, it was the second installment where I took a focused look at the retail component of a 20,000 square foot new development that will include a medical practice as well as additional tenant space. Yes, please.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 15, 2016

I makes site visits a lot easier when you can simply look and know that the electrical wire to kitchen appliances should be yellow and not white. Did you know that the different gauges of electrical wires are typically indicated by the color of the plastic they are sheathed in? 12 gauge is typically yellow and is used for most appliances.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 5, 2018

Landon clearly comes from a family where his mom runs the kitchen and prepares food worth eating … I was not so lucky. I was there for 3 intense days judging kitchen designs from around the country that were submitted for award consideration.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 14, 2018

I have held the opinion for a long time that most architects like to cook and for me, becoming a chef was my backup plan if the architecture thing didn’t work out. Just like architecture, presentation and delivery are a huge part of the process – the goal is to get as many senses involved as possible.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Her lifestyle brand is perfectly Southern and includes fashion and home accents available online and at brick-and-mortar stores in Lexington, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; and Dallas, Texas. Draper James store in Lexington, Kentucky. According to Crate and Barrel, the holiday items are a small tease of what’s to come.

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Life of an Architect

AUGUST 20, 2015

If you have been a long time reader, you’ll know that upon my graduation, my professional goals consisted of: make over $100,000 a year get published in an architectural history book buy a jet ski But only one of those three things has actually come true for me ( I’ll let you guess which one ). Flowers, Hon.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I would say that I fall in to the architectural demographic that at one point thought they would find themselves working professionally in a kitchen. According to the that same study, an even higher percentage of architects hate washing dishes. You : Wow Bob, that’s really interesting. Please, go on. Weird, right? Not really.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 29, 2014

.” To help you mentally get to where I am at, here is the table I am siting at typing this up - It’s now 12:27am because I thought I should stop and take a picture of the eat-in kitchen that is part of my studio hotel room where I am currently staying … but let’s not get ahead of ourself. I love this house.

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Life of an Architect

MAY 8, 2016

On Thursday, May 5th, 2015, the Americans Institute of Architects of Dallas organized a day of awareness and celebration on the impact the ADA has had on the built environment and the disabled community and I was asked to participate by spending my entire day with no hearing. This was a difficult and depressing day quite honestly.

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Life of an Architect

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The house was 3,257 square feet and we were able to spread the cost of some of the more expensive rooms (kitchen and bathrooms) across more simple spaces like bedrooms and living spaces, so it’s larger than I think a house in the low-cost modern house conversation really should be for consideration. The bad news?

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 27, 2014

The short description is that the site had to be cleared (architectural speak for scraping the dirt and landscaping away as needed), the piers have been drilled (holes dug into the ground down to rock which will be filled with concrete and rebar) and formwork is getting set. If Dallas had a rainy season, we would be in it.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

MAY 27, 2014

Architecture. Architecture. Architecture › Simplicity Reigns in 100% Renewable Energy Home: Great Gulf Active House . By Ada Teicu in Architecture. The first Active House in Russia was designed by architecture firm Polygon Lab and is situated in the outskirts of Moscow, in Zapadnaya Dolina. Architecture.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2019

The short version is they want to know what they should do now that they are in architecture school and it’s hard, they think they are terrible, and they are having an identity crisis since they now believe that they will never fulfill their dream of becoming an architect. Weird, right?

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 14, 2019

The short version is they want to know what they should do now that they are in architecture school and it’s hard, they think they are terrible, and they are having an identity crisis since they now believe that they will never fulfill their dream of becoming an architect. Weird, right?

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Trendir Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

House by Adam KalkinArchitect Adam Kalkin is mostly known for his modern shipping container home designs that are so innovative and stylish, they could easily become the poster homes for cargotecture (a term coined for shipping container architecture). Containers of Hope by Benjamin Garcia Saxe Architecture. Garden Container Home.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

9:30am I went over to the house of Dallas chef and restaurateur Richard Chamberlain to talk about kitchens … more specifically “A Chef’s Kitchen.” 4:00pm There is another project I recently started – a new house here in the Dallas, in an area called Preston Hollow.

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Life of an Architect

JUNE 7, 2015

The site falls off fairly steeply towards the back … well, it’s steep for Dallas, Texas. In case you haven’t heard, we have received biblical levels of water here in Dallas this year. The picture above, I am standing adjacent to the open kitchen looking in towards the main living room. Growing the alley.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 25, 2016

To make things even more interesting, I was able to get Houzz, the National AIA, and the fine folks over at SketchUp involved, and that is a lot of chefs in the kitchen. On any day in Dallas County, there are nearly 2,000 children waiting for a safe place to live. Judging a playhouse design competition is a lot harder than it sounds.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Kitchen and living space at WaterWall Place WaterWall Place Year Built: 2013 Number of Units: 322 Number of Layouts: 14 Rent: Call for pricing Highlights: These eco-friendly one- and two-bedroom apartments just off of The Galleria shopping center feature wood flooring and high ceilings. Kitchens have maple cabinetry and granite countertops.

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Life of an Architect

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Fast-forward to Wednesday and then I went out-of-town for the Texas Society of Architects convention … and didn’t get back to Dallas until late Saturday night. When you are part of the operational staff of an architectural firm, you literally get these opportunities almost every single day.

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Life of an Architect

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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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Inspired by historical fire lookouts, the retired couple decided to move to a 160-acre parcel of land and build their own fire-lookout home overlooking Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest — quite the contrast from their large single-family home in Dallas. When they got to Oregon, they rented out old fire lookouts from the U.S.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Image Source: HB Dallas Home automation is an ever-expanding market that is growing by leaps and bounds. Expanding your audio into the kitchen? Home automation is projected to be a $21.6 billion industry within the next five years. Let’s face it — people like their technology, and they like to feel in control. Not a problem.

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Life of an Architect

JANUARY 12, 2014

So when I was offered a new Bosch Tassimo T55 brewing system, and casually mentioned it to the people sitting around me, they said I might “accidentally” fall on the sharp end of an architectural scale if I didn’t say yes. The other one, well, it stays in my kitchen. Its pretty hard to forget where that one belongs.

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Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Image Source: Dallas Design Group. For example, the next time you host a party wouldn’t it be nice to have all of your guests out of the kitchen and into a game room where they will be occupied and entertained? There are health benefits to man caves. Men Need Somewhere to Display the Things They Love.

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Life of an Architect

MARCH 21, 2016

Since he is currently going after his architectural license, he gets to add up some job site visit hours. I am actually looking out of a large window in the Master Bedroom suite looking back towards the horizontal window in the kitchen. Let me assure you that we get snow in Dallas, just not with regularity. Gratuitous snow shot.

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Life of an Architect

APRIL 13, 2014

Start laying out my new kitchen drawings? Today is a good example – I am on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Chapter AIA – a position I volunteered to fill. finals time at architecture school frequently gets overwhelming and i felt like giving up on everything. Should I: Work on my charity playhouse design?

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