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coffee shops
In really cold weather, the only place left to sketch is in coffee shops. and the steamy heat fogs the windows and the only thing left to draw is the place itself. These are from various sketchbooks...
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Architects of days gone by
Overly fussy designs: check Haughty pose: check Little glasses: check Lots of attitude: check Some things never change. Mr. Lundborg’s visage was found in a 1908 newspaper down at the Carnegie...
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loads of new construction
It has been a very busy number of weeks here with quite a few projects in construction and a few in development stages. The postings to this blog have been few, but the activity here has been...
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Some Pretty Homes of Boulder
While doing some research for a new project, I ran into a these photos of some of Boulder’s older houses in a weekly newspaper called the Daily Herald. This article is from 1908 and is really more of...
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enter ACI – architecture, construction, integration
We haven’t added new blog posts in quite a while as we have been more than ordinarily busy with a new joint venture – ACI design/build. Jim Walker and I have been friends since our Chicago-days, now...
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Container House Taking Shape, by Boulder architects M. Gerwing Architects
The shipping container house that we have been working on for quite a while has finally started to take shape. The first box was delivered on Wednesday, lifted high above the neighborhood and swung...
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M. Gerwing Architects anniversary
M. Gerwing Architects has been in existence for six years as of April 1st. No foolin’. In that time we have executed a number of interesting projects, ones that benefited from that remarkable alchemy...
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The Stones, Pablo Neruda
In celebration of National Poetry Month, Pablo Neruda’s The Stones: Stones, boulders, crags … Perhaps they were fragments of a deafening explosion. Or stalagmites that were once submerged, or hostile...
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Colorado burning, fighting wildfires with building design
I re-posted this last year when the Waldo Canyon fire was blazing, and I’m afraid I have reason to put it up again this year. For as bad as the Fourmile and Waldo Canyon fires were, the current Black...
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Jen Lewin exhibit, CU Art Museum
For a few more weeks there is an interactive light/movement/sound exhibit of some works by Boulder artist Jen Lewin at the CU Art Museum. Jen Lewin exhibit at CU Art Museum, blue field The exhibit...
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Boulder Modernists – Tician Papachristou
Another in a series of posts of some of the remarkable architects that were working in Boulder, Colorado in the 1960s. This was a particularly fruitful time for questioning the basis for especially...
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Colorado floods, North Boulder
after almost a week of unprecendented rains, flooding has surged all over the Front Range in Colorado. In a usually dry season, we have had more than 14 inches of rain in 2 days (that is about 2 years...
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ReSource Wars!
This past weekend we were part of a team that participated in ReSource Wars, a two-day design-build competition in service of the local building materials resource center here in Boulder. The event...
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tile, pattern, geometry
nocce travertine, 12″ x 12″ tiles, brick coursed As I have probably spoken about in previous posts, we draw no real distinction between architecture and interiors. They are all a part of crafting a...
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Boulder Modern – talk by Mark Gerwing, local architect
I am giving a public talk on February 19th on a brief history of Modern Architecture in Boulder at the public library Canyon Theater. I have given a version of this talk in the past, with emphasis on...
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Boulder 2014 Structures of Merit – some of the best of the 1960′s
As Chair of Boulder’s Landmarks Board, I have been heading up an effort to engender greater appreciation and recognition of some of Boulder’s remarkable 1960′s architecture. Boulder really flowered in...
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South Boulder, construction progress
With ACI, we have been working on a very interesting project in South Boulder. The scope of work is an interior-only renovation of a stereotypical single-story ranch house. With a limited budget, we...
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Colorado burning, fighting wildfires with building design
I re-posted this last year when the Waldo Canyon fire was blazing, and I’m afraid I have reason to put it up again this year. For as bad as the Fourmile and Waldo Canyon fires were, the current Black...
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Jen Lewin exhibit, CU Art Museum
For a few more weeks there is an interactive light/movement/sound exhibit of some works by Boulder artist Jen Lewin at the CU Art Museum. Jen Lewin exhibit at CU Art Museum, blue field The exhibit...
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