Interesting article in the NY Times by Bob Tedeschi:
With integrated stereo speakers, colors that pulse to music and other innovations, programmable LEDs are booming. Read more about it here.
Tower House Selected by American-Architects to Represent Oregon in 2014! →
Read about it here.
Single-family homes in the United States tend to be one- or two-story buildings that sprawl across the land. Another tactic is taken in the aptly named Tower House designed for a steep and narrow Portland lot by architect Benjamin Waechter. Building up four floors allows for economical construction on a tough site, but also carefully framed views of the Oregon landscape. The house was built by Prutting & Company.
Being Prepared for House Fires →
Interesting article in the NY Times by Steven Kurutz. Be safe this season!
"As a fireman, you know you’re going to go to more fires in the winter than any other season.”
As traumatic as it is to have your possessions incinerated, many people who experience a house fire say the most difficult part comes afterward. What follows is often a long and stressful ordeal involving a search for temporary housing, dealings with insurance companies, bureaucratic agencies and contractors and financial strain.
A Destination for Design: The Bassam Fellows Journal
Prutting & Company is proud to introduce the Bassam Fellows Journal: "A site conceived to celebrate all of the elements of the BassamFellows lifestyle vision- from architectural projects to new products and upcoming brand collaborations." They even debuted their first ever retail space.
Get inspired here by their stories on chronicle design, architecture, travel and craftsmanship.
Prutting & Company is a winner of the 2014 CTC&G Innovation in Design Awards!
Prutting & Company and Joeb Moore & Partners are honored to win for their Modern Greenwich Project from the 2014 CTC&G Innovation in Design Awards in the categories of Architecture and Builder Recognition!
As seen in Cottages & Gardens Publications
As seen in Cottages & Gardens Publications
Take a look at the articles plus many more photos of the project on the Cottages & Gardens website…
Architecture Category
Builder Recognition Category
Congratulations to all 2014 CTC&G IDA winners!
*2014 CTC&G Innovation in Design Winners: Builder Recognition was originally published in CTC&G and on cottagesgardens.com/CTCandG