Change will happen; let’s plan for it. Plan to anticipate change As architects how can we anticipate long-term change of a private house or an institutional building owner? Can we, as architects, limit turnover of a commercial lease tenants? Typically, people and buildings change together. How can residential buildings plan for change? In residential design, we consider how a client can break the traditional migration pattern. Typically, people start with a small house if th

Construction has begun on the 1st plaza along the Prayer Path at the Monastery. A series of 5 plazas will line the path from the Monastic Heritage Center to the Monastery and Abbey Church. Each plaza will feature rough-sawn board formed concrete walls with blue stone panels/plaques commemorating donors and/or their loved ones. The following images are water color renderings of our proposed design for the Prayer Path and individual plazas. The water colors were done by Iain St