AIA Austin “Open Architecture >> East”

So this past Saturday I spent the afternoon with friend/long time client Joe Bennett of JMBA. Essentially for Joe and I it was holiday shopping versus Architecture… Architecture won. AIA Austin put together this first annual OPEN ARCHITECTURE event, an “open house” of Architects Studios on the east side of I-35. Needless to say it was a great afternoon meeting and seeing some of Austin’s creative design teams responsible for putting our town on the map with regards to award-winning designs and now built structures that are being nationally recognized. Just think these are the firms just on the east side of town, what about the rest?

Tons of eye candy for the afternoon but the photo you see above really caught our attention; check out the material use. This address is home to Pollen Architecture and Urban Jobe Architecture.

Overall a great afternoon and thanks to all who participated… Keep up the great work!!                            <<<Photos>>>

West Lake Hills Residence

This is a recent project we completed in one of Austin’s most scenic areas, West Lake Hills. The homeowner was wonderful and the family dog that kept insisting on helping measure things made this a really fun measure up. You can see some more here.

Fun in Travis Heights

TexDraft had a great time measuring this residence in Travis Heights and we love having met our new architect friend. Yeah! Check out more images here.

Sale of Starr Building Closed

We have been following the status of this historical Austin favorite of ours. The sale has now gone through to Kemp Properties… You can read about it here. Check out some of our previous blogs about this Austin Gem. Let the preservation and building use begin!! Oh yeah… maybe we can measure it.

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Spacers

For some reason today the Browning Hangar at Mueller was open… or maybe somebody left the door open. Anyway I was finally able to walk it. Good stuff.

Austin’s Historic Hopkins House Measured

What a great opportunity to measure this historic Old West Austin home. The house was built sometime between 1857 and 1865 and lies in the West Line Historic District created by the National Register of Historic Places. It took some slow and steady measuring to best represent the existing conditions considering the age, “rubble” construction and 4″ variance common in most of the house. Too much detail to explain all the complexities of such a measure up but we have some images here of the home and the plans we drafted. Not too often we get a gem like this to measure so we are thankful to the owner for the opportunity to do what we love and excited that this home will continue its history as an Austin Residence.

Detail 4200 N Lamar

So the materials are going on and the design is really starting to show… this is just a cool photo. Photo taken 09/13/09

Cool “Architecture” Video

Came across the local firm Seaux Pierce Architecture who have a great video on their site that I thought I would share.

Mount Bonnell Residence

Nice measure up for us on this 5159 square foot home. There were 3 main levels with additional split levels, involved roof plan and part of the home was oriented at a 45 degree to the main house. The biggest challenge came from alignment of the lower/garage level and the entry level above at the kitchen area as well as the stairwell between these 2 levels; “measure twice draft a dozen x” was the motto but we finally came away with hard data that allowed everything to jive. The elevations were a process that in order to properly draft the “third angled” portions of the building orthographically we had to draft them primarily in “first angle” so by the time we completed all 4 elevations we had a screen full of lines… check it. This was a great project and the homeowners were wonderful. We have some more images here.

4200 N Lamar 08/16/09

08/16/09