“Floating steps,” a modern stair takes shape

In one of our projects in the Flagstaff neighborhood, Rod Swanstrom installs temporary handrails. This single-stringer stair fabricated by Standart Metal Works supports “floating steps” that will be finished off with solid wood… Continue reading →

Historic Boulder Holiday Tour

The work of Lawrence and Gomez Architects in the Reppelier House was featured in this year’s Historic Boulder Holiday Tour. The kitchen expansion utilizes modern materials and equipment, while its palette keeps it… Continue reading →

Landscape artists’ tricks

To make a small space feel more expansive, draw the eye up by calling attention to the ceiling. Read more in the article linked below about how to achieve a feeling of greater… Continue reading →

Boulder Green Home Tour, September 29, 2018

The purpose of the Boulder Green Home Tour is to highlight some of the most innovative green building projects in Boulder and to help promote the collaborative exchange of ideas on green building… Continue reading →

……………………….Net ZERO

At the Boulder Reservoir Gateway, the new entryway kiosks produce more electricity than they consume, making these Net Zero buildings. Namaste Solar installed a 9.81 kW array of 30 photovoltaic panels. The project… Continue reading →

1 Comment

Golden Leaves Falling

Golden leaves falling on freshly finished concrete patio Pouring a slab isn’t as easy as pouring a slab. For best results, a concrete slab should be planned, designed, and engineered. “It can be… Continue reading →

1 Comment

Schools As Civic Architecture

This Guest Opinion by Juana Gómez of Lawrence and Gómez Architects  appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on September 25, 2011 Excerpt: A few days into this school year, the Citizens’ Bond Oversight… Continue reading →

2 Comments

A Patient Search

In 1960 at age 71, architect Le Corbusier summarized his career in a monograph titled Creation is a patient search. That would also be a fitting sub-title for Steven Johnson’s Where Good Ideas… Continue reading →

2 Comments

Summer Sun and the MidMod Renewal

Colorado’s high-altitude summer sun ripens our gardens’ tomatoes and orchard peaches. The dry air and cool evenings help bring these to plump perfection in August. But unless it is properly controlled, the abundant… Continue reading →

0 Comments

Architectural pairings – Beach Holiday

Bright blue aluminum chairs can evoke the seaside by their simple juxtaposition against galvanized corrugated metal and weathered wood decking. Our firm designed the addition to this house in Colorado, contrasting the existing… Continue reading →

0 Comments

Summer reading

One recently finished and one recently started If you loved Technology in the Ancient World or The Mummies of Urumchi, you will enjoy Women’s Work, The First 20,000 Years. Elizabeth W. Barber tells… Continue reading →

2 Comments

Architectural Pairings – Fourth of July

Two contemporary versions of traditional standards The craftsman detailing of this front porch complements the varied colors and textures of a freshly made potato salad.

0 Comments

Sinuous

Chicago begets another innovative skyscraper with the opening of an intriguing structure by one of the city’s native daughters, Jeanne Gang. It breaks with recent highrise traditions in many ways, some of which… Continue reading →

1 Comment

Historic Caribbean Color

From a recent trip to San Juan and Arecibo, Puerto Rico Historic color on some of the oldest buildings in the Americas (a few almost 500 years old) Restored or raw

3 Comments

Gimme Shelter

If you need to end a drought in Colorado, take the gutters or the roof off a house. Deconstruction always brings on a downpour. Our May weather highlights the need for proper gutters,… Continue reading →