“But there is no way it can take 6 weeks for a permit to be issued by the village” stated my client. “It’s just one permit and they never have any issues with permits on the home show I watch”. I don’t want to be the heavy , don’t want to be the cynic- but […]
Beyond the drawings, how can we help?
Most people think the bulk of activity of an architect’s day centers around drawing and designing projects. While it is an important component of the construction process. What we do and really separates us from other architects is that we are really here to help-everyone. We have an on-boarding process that introduces customers to schedules, […]
It Takes a Village
Each town, village and city is unique…not just in it’s feel, look and population, but in it’s ability to approve a building project. This is not so obvious to somebody that has not gone through the process before. It’s really insane. The review boards, the applications, the sequence of approvals vary dramatically from year to […]
Yeah it’s about 400 square feet
If you did a double take when Bill Clinton said, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” , then you may love when folks discuss how big a building or house is. It always depends on who you ask and how you count those square feet: The generally accepted unit of […]
Seeing & Perception
My blog topics generally come from subject lines in my outbox or recent conversations that seem to reoccur…so here is one topic that is very general and interesting. It evolved from a discussion related to a building silhouette. Let’ s focus on the nitty-gritty of “how it looks”. There is a hierarchy to how we […]