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cultureNOW - water tower bike rack

cultureNOW - water tower bike rack

Nothing is more fulfilling than feeling a sense of community. CultureNOW celebrates our cultural environment beyond the physical constraints of our museums, and envisions the world as a “Museum Without Walls.” Both their online gallery and phone app map art and architecture installations all over the world to help the public better visualize the richness and diversity of our community, and ultimately understand the world better. We couldn’t be happier to be a part of this thr

reach family picnic

reach family picnic

As part of our project for a more Christian architecture (pfamCa) mission, we love getting our families together to explore the community. This past Saturday we enjoyed a beautiful fall day out at Sweet Berry Farm in Marble Falls. The kids had so much fun kicking around the soccer ball, climbing on pumpkins, picking flowers from the field, riding the choo choo train and hay ride, and painting pumpkins. Let’s be honest, the adults had a lot of fun too! #family #community #pfam

rooftop film series

rooftop film series

What’s better than enjoying a fall evening outdoors in Austin? The Contemporary downtown hosts a Rooftop Architecture Film Series, showcasing the latest architecture documentaries. Of particular interest to us as part of our pfamCa mission was Sagrada, el misteri de la creaci, a film by Stefan Haupt about the great Catalan architect, Antoni Gaudí i Cornet. La Sagrada Familia, Gaudí’s magnum opus, is a great Christian cathedral in the European tradition— some 132 years in the

woodcraft digifab wall

woodcraft digifab wall

We learn a lot from working with local craftsmen in the Austin community. Recently, we teamed up with Vintage Material Supply to create a CNC milled formliner for our concrete tree wall in the vestibule of Woodcraft, Austin – one of our projects currently under construction. Woodcraft is a retail facility that sells woodworking tools and supplies. We envision the vestibule to celebrate the craft of woodworking through various architectural assemblies: wood board formed concre

woodcraft construction starts

woodcraft construction starts

Construction of our latest project, Woodcraft Austin, recently began. The construction administration process involves regular visits up to the site. During our recent site visit, we observed the preparation work for the pouring of the concrete foundation. This entails drilling almost 8 feet into bedrock and setting the rebar, erecting the steel base plates and columns, and setting up the formwork – all prior to pouring the concrete. A lot of coordination is needed to ensure

bike rack ribbon cutting

bike rack ribbon cutting

We are very excited to announce the grand opening of our Water Tower Bike Rack at West Enfield Pool, designed by Alan for the City’s Art in Public Places program. It was great to see community members, local artists and architects, and staff from the Austin Parks and Recreation Department all join together to celebrate the Water Tower Bike Rack’s completion, just in time for summer. A lot of time and effort went into the design and execution of the installation and we hope th

film series - st. augustine

Today we’re screening Malcom Muggeridge’s documentary A Third Testament on Saint Augustine. We’re excited about further exploring Saint Augustine’s ideal City of God and our vision of “on earth as it is in heaven.” Augustine related his own day and age to eternity; he saw the fall of the earthly city and envisioned the City of God— a city that would endure. In Muggeridge’s words, “Saint Augustine’s great conclusion is that in its sojourn here, the heavenly city makes use of t

fabrication of the water tower bike rack

fabrication of the water tower bike rack

Fabrication on the water tower bike rack is in full swing. The individual panels have been CNC plasma cut and bent. Now, Alan and Bo are spending long hours working with the welder to assemble the panel families and prep them for final painting. Thanks to the City of Austin’s Art in Public Places program for making this project possible. Art in Public Places project link #projects #fabrication #all

summer film series

summer film series

Today we kick off our summer film series with the documentary Mother Teresa: A Missionary of Charity by Ann Petrie & Jeanette Petrie. We take much strength from hearing of God’s providence sustaining Mother Teresa’s ministry, and pray that He would likewise sustain us. Films are shown in the Reach conference room during lunch on Thursdays. We will continue with Malcom Muggeridge’s A Third Testament which documents his pilgrimage to understand the lives of seven maverick Chris

aroma soft opening

aroma soft opening

Dining in a new restaurant is always exciting, and when it happens to be a restaurant your team designed, it’s very exciting. We had a great time at the soft opening for aRoma Italian Kitchen & Bar, enjoying Italian wine, sampling some of their cuisine, and catching up with friends and family. Make sure to check it out down on South Lamar, right next to the Broken Spoke – and of course, let us know what you think. Getting feedback from the community is always helpful! aRoma I

de-Arbification complete

de-Arbification complete

We are excited to attend the soft opening of the completely remodeled hat creek burger co. on Burnet Road in ATX. Starting life as an old Arby's, the building was completely transformed by with a new skin that is faithful to the Hat Creek branding we have developed. The "de-Arbification" is complete! Props to Hat Creek for being a great client that believes in our vision and is willing to be "ballsy" project link #projects #all

dwell cover

dwell cover

I was told to check out this month’s issue of Dwell by one of my previous co-workers at Gray Organschi Architecture. “We’ve got a little article in it”. Whoa, it’s the cover! Congrats to everyone at GOA. The house I worked on for Johnathan Adler and Simon Doonan on Shelter Island is the featured article. It was a fun project to work on, and it turned out beautiful. Check out the full article and all of GOA's beautiful work at the links below. Dwell Gray Organschi Architectur

winning in waco

winning in waco

We’ve teamed up with Ellis Isle Equities to develop a 95 unit residential loft development in downtown Waco. The heart of the project is the 90 year old Stratton Furniture building which will be restored to house Art House, a basement pub, a coffee shop and residences. This is a competition put out by the Business Resource Center and its sister organization the Waco Downtown Development Corp. On Thursday they selected our proposal as the winner and are moving forward with neg

towards a more Christian architecture

towards a more Christian architecture

Contemporary architecture and development in the US is dominated by a distinctly American cultural hegemony. Throughout American history, a streamlined and very nearly imperceptible oppression of the many has been employed to maintain the power and privilege of the few under the guise of equality, liberty, democracy. Such is the case in the architecture and development of the American city today. It is the aim of a more Christian architecture structurally to undo this hegemon

project for a more Christian architecture

project for a more Christian architecture

The world sometimes presents itself as a mountain of insurmountable inequality, despair. Amen, amen, I say unto, if you have faith and you believe, you can say to a mountain, “Be lifted up and cast into the sea” and it will be done for you. We therefore muster the faith to take on a project as utterly impossible as it is necessary. Our goal is nothing short of casting a human-made mountain of inequality and despair, the ghetto of the Americas, into the sea--yet, not by oblite

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