Events

We’re looking forward the annual Phinney Ridge Home Fair this Sunday, the 31st, from 10 am to 4 pm.  Usually we have a table there, but we jumped on it a little too late.

I’ll still be there.  In fact, I’ll be giving a little talk on How to Work with an Architect to help people looking to build understand the role of the architect, and the design process.  I’ll talk about how to select an architect, how much it will cost, and go in deep about what to expect every step of the way.

If I’m lucky there’ll even be time for some questions!

Starts at 1:50 and runs to 2:30. I’m going to hang out afterwards as long as there are curious minds with questions.

In case you can’t make it, I’ll post the handout that goes through the process afterwords.

I would like to take a moment to welcome Parkour Visions, our new building mates, to our corner of Freelard. We’ve always tried to keep a fun group of creative folks in our building and I think we are set to continue the trend.  This weekend Parkour Visions had their grand opening, and all of us at CAST are looking forward to getting to know Rafe and Tyson better as we take them up on some lunch time workouts!  There has to be some form of symbiosis (or karmic irony) that an architecture firm and a Parkour gym are sharing the same building, but we are all excited to find out what it is like to play more directly in our built environment!

Thanks to Stefan for hosting our seasonal CAST dinner.  Great food and a big turnout, and it felt like some of the events we hosted pre-construction industry implosion.  We had a lot to celebrate:  our 11th year in business, and some great new projects on the boards, such as Vagabond Ranch,  the Causey’s Learning Center expansion, and Zander and Megan’s new house, plus welcoming aboard Forrest Murphy, our latest collaborator.

Our recent Fremont Townhomes have shown up in another industry publication, Builder Magazine! They highlighted Unit 5, which is built on a narrow sliver of commercially zoned land–only 10′ feet wide.  The lot is just 400 sf, and we were able to get a 950 sf 2br/2ba (that is an FAR of 2.375 for you density geeks out there).

Builder Magazine article