Tag Archives: Atlanta architects

Townhome Rendered Elevation

Tiny Townhomes – A “New” Building Type?

Atlanta’s re-surging in-town development has led to higher property values and inflated construction costs. Coupled together, these two factors cause concern for affordable housing. In-town growth can also encourage the bulldozing of existing small homes, only to be replaced by larger, higher priced homes. However, when there are less properties available, developers resort to denser…

Picture showing zip wall on a house under construction

Residential High Performance Design

What is the right prescription for southern high performance residential architectural design and building? In our evolving practice we now recommend a prescription of high-performance solutions on every project.  From a humble renovation to custom new home built to Passive House criteria we consider features in a following order of priority according to our client’s…

Design stewardship

Project Stewardship (#5 of 10 Principles)

What does “project stewardship” mean? Sometimes project stewardship is literal; like when we were recently commissioned for our 5th project for the 3rd owner of the same property. Other times project stewardship involves helping clients make long-term decisions. These decisions, for example, might include using advanced building science strategies that create healthier, more resilient, lower…

Viridian Nearly Complete

Viridian Leasing is Nearly Complete! Our long awaited  Viridian Leasing Office is finally finishing up this week. The Grand Opening will take place this weekend. The rain has slowed construction down a little bit. However, we were able to capture a few photos during our punch list review. Exterior In September of 2015, we were…