Design Portfolio
Our design team approaches every assignment as an occasion to create not just a beautiful, functional & efficient design, but as an opportunity to BUILD it, see it through to completion…and therefore truly ratify the operational design.
- CAPTURE - Our process starts with capturing the essence of our clients’ vision – or helping them articulate what they like, want and need.
- VISUALIZATION – Using extensive 3 dimensional modeling, we create the ability to ‘see’ the design from inside – out.
- IMPLEMENT – Refining the conceptual design into construction documents, we utilize our decades of construction experience to make a project truly ‘buildable’ in terms of budget, timing & materials suitability.
- EXECUTION – We believe form & function are interdependent, not that one serves or follows the other. We also believe a building’s ‘beauty’ is not just in form but in environmental relevance and user proclivity.
Design Process Think-Design-Build
download the design-build process overview (pdf, 110KB)
Spencer House
The Richard Orms Spencer House, as photographed by Julius Shulman, on display at the Getty Museum




Whole house renovation starting Summer of 2015"




Lion Hill







Ward





