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Our Office Dog, Carl
I like having a dog at our office. Our office dog is Carl, a yellow lab that lives with Jason.
Carl has changed the tone of the office. We are pretty relaxed, but hard working. When Jason proposed that he bring Carl in, part of me imagined that we would spend our [...]
High Tension Towers
I love electrical high tension towers. How many times have you looked past these hulking behemoths while driving down the New Jersey Turnpike, through Boston’s industrial outskirts, near Gary, Indiana’s old steel furnaces? OK, how many of you have been to Gary?
While designing the Morris Arboretum’s tree canopy walk (sorry I am not [...]
Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg
I was just in St. Petersburg, Florida, as a guest speaker at the Industrial Perforators Association annual meeting. Great people. We work a lot with perforated metal in our projects.
We visited the Salvador Dali Museum there—an unlikely location for this impressive collection of this artist’s work. Apparently, the Morse family of Ohio collected his work [...]
Age of Aquarius?
I have been at times identified as a cynic. I get squirmy at the end of my yoga class (yes a cynic who practices yoga) when we are asked to get all “thankful” and introspective in public. My yoga teacher started talking earlier this year about the coming of the “Age of Aquarius,” an alignment [...]
Color is Underrated – A Follow Up
We got so excited about our recent post, Color is Underrated, that I found more images to back up my point. In fact, we will continue to share them in a reoccurring piece. Enjoy!
Poof!
A couple of Sundays ago, I was sitting in the Highpoint, our local coffee shop in Mt. Airy, and it was raining like crazy-4 inches by noon. Chris ran in and screamed “Rob, Rob…lets go….our house was hit by lightning!
I drove by the house about an hour later. Fire trucks finishing up. Nobody was hurt. [...]
Color Is Underrated
Is the lack of design consideration given to American public spaces an indication of our country’s lack of interest in the public life? What ever happened to civitas? Are we only interested in cost conscious, safe choices that offend no one and minimize insurance liability? What about the pleasure of being in a public place?
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