Archives for July 2014

A nice little speculative office campus begun by remodeling a vacant mechanic’s garage.  The unique feature of the campus is a retired Frisco caboose parked at the back of the campus which happens to abut a railroad yard.  

Another departure from my usual emphasis – a restaurant crafted from former nightclub space in a shopping center. The existing mezzanine was structurally sound, but left a very dark corridor beneath along a party wall.  My design proposal was to cut a couple of openings that would surround low hanging chandeliers to provide lighting to […]

As the yard sign indicates, this is the headquarters of the American Family Association, a para-church citizens action group.  The rest of the multi-phase campus is pretty much a continuation of simulated stone veneer and metal mansard visible here.  The novelty for me in this effort is that that facilities contain the only radio broadcast […]

This two-phase facility was built to replace original building lost in a fire across the street.  Phase I is the smaller building at right.  When the two phases were completed, the steeple salvaged from the original building was perched atop a connecting tower between the buildings.  I heard the alley between the buildings humorously referred […]

I guess this effort would technically be called a replacement of the smaller worship annex, while the original activities building remains at rear.  The construction was a two-phased effort, with the front half of the new building finished first.  After the congregation had moved into the new sanctuary,  the original worship annex that had been […]

My only equestrian commission so far.  Large metal pole barn with raised center ridge was located on the site of a former barn to keep company with the concrete silo that remains from earlier days.  

Before and after scanned photos from the album of a sanctuary addition project.  A brick gable was added to the original building behind to compliment the port on the new addition.

My only grocery store project.  I designed the outside with a pair of New England style bricked entry gables to add interest to an otherwise uneventful porch while a corporate office in Oklahoma handled the inside plan.  

This is a prototype ‘mission church,’  built by volunteer labor in approximately three weeks.  Front of floor plan has central entry foyer flanked by restrooms and classrooms/offices.  Behind the sanctuary is small fellowship hall with compact kitchen and storage.  Since there was no room on site to expand this building, the congregation moved locations and […]