Change will happen; let’s plan for it. As architects how can we plan to anticipate change long-term for a private house, an institutional building owner or even limiting turnover of a commercial lease tenants? Ideally people and buildings can change together. How can residential buildings plan to anticipate change? In residential design, we consider how…
What is wrong with this picture? Why do certain building, streets and places feel right and some feel terribly wrong? Should individual buildings contribute to a place’s safety, walkability, and good urban design? We believe a good architecture achieves a state of design consciousness. Imagine a world where infill homes were not piles dropped from space…
Does the project work? The Jones Pierce second principle of the way to insure having A fun client experience says projects must be viable to proceed. Viability it typically defined only as by architectural project budgeting. Early in the project we look at several possible aspects of viability to make sure the project works as…
Listen first then design What determines the design course heading for a particular project? It is a memory of a favorite place, a collection of images, written goals or the bottom line result of a proforma? We see clients using different methods to communicate what they want the results of the project to achieve. Our…
The 2017 Atlanta Urban Design Commission 40th Annual Awards for Excellence recognized projects, programs and individuals that have significantly contributed to the improvement of the built environment in the City of Atlanta, as well as the preservation of the City’s heritage. This year, Jones Pierce received the Award of Excellence in Contextual Infill category for…
5 Tactics used to convert a ranch house into a mid-century modern living: Indoor-Outdoor edition A client came to Jones Pierce after finding a good ranch house candidate to convert to the mid-century modern style. Their strategy was to sell the home their kids grew up in then downsize into a single level living ….
Viridian Leasing is Nearly Complete! Our long awaited Leasing Office is finally finishing up this week for its Grand Opening this weekend. Here are a few photos taken between the rain events today during our punch list review.
The Atlanta Music Project is striving to expose children and teens throughout the City of Atlanta to classical orchestral and choral music while providing quality, intensive, and tuition-free music education to our city’s underserved youth. Jones Pierce has had the exceptional opportunity to work with the founders and board to identify a vision and set goals for…
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Viridian Leasing Center Under Construction! Check out our progress- The Viridian Leasing Center is under construction and moving at a good pace. The initial design for the building was completed in December of 2015, and construction began at the end of this April. The structure and most of the TPO roofing is complete.