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St Marlow Residence Complete
Our project in Duluth, St Marlow Residence, is complete. The project included a backyard transformation with a new pool, firepit area, patio, and deck. A new entry removed a 20 foot tall west facing window wall replacing it with a new double entry and portico. We also completed a full basement renovation. Our team included Core Landscape Architects and Keiffer Phillips Patricia Brown Builders . St Marlow Residence Images: Entry St. Marlow Residence New double entry doors and
Aug 1, 2012


Roswell Backyard: Initial Goals and the After
The big picture goal for this Roswell backyard project was to add a pool with a built in “Endless pool” to allow a very busy corporate client to train at home for an Iron Man, instead of having gym memberships all over the city. We saw this as an opportunity to use the new pool and the landscape design to fit the house to the site instead of following a typical home builder approach of fitting a site to the house. We achieved this by using the pool structure combined with bo
Sep 9, 2011


Principle #2 – Working With Context
Weaving Coherence Between Your Home and the Adjacent Neighborhood …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. The newest renovation on the block never fails to elicit emotion from everyone. Some projects seem just right, and others seem, well…wrong. To avoid what we call “Archi-Torture,” the project has to be undertaken in the context of its environment and use. A renovation planned with context in mind doesn’t cost more—but does significantly increase the value of the ho
Oct 1, 2010
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