Baptistery Mural

Hand painted large scale displays are just about consigned to history, but once in a while such a commission still comes along.  The client at this country church took me to a large church in town that had this scene painted in their baptistery.  He wanted it duplicated, but the artist had passed away.  I […]

Office Building

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.  

Restaurant Mezzanine

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 […]

Office Building

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 […]

Church Project

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 […]