Westport River House: A collage of glassy and solid frames and volumes completely reinvent the relationship of house to landscape in this transformational renovation. Photo credit: Ruhl Walker Architects
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Two More Design Awards!

We were thrilled to learn this week that two of our projects have received 2012 design awards from the Boston Society of Architects and the American Institute of Architects New England.  The winning projects are: The Hawaii Wildlife Center, which…

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Westport River House A collage of glassy and solid frames and volumes completely reinvent the relationship of house to landscape in this transformational renovation. Photo credit: Peter Vanderwarker
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Three BSA Design Awards!

We’re honored to have been notified this week that three of our projects have received 2012 design awards from the Boston Society of Architects.  The BSA hasn’t announced the particulars yet, but we’ll post again when we know more! In…

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The master bedroom will have views of the Bay framed by pines.
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Water Views

We’ve been frantically busy developing the design of our Griffin Island House, but Sandra, Nerijus, and I were able to take a short break and drive out to Wellfleet the other day. While we continue to fine tune the design…

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Cedar volumes
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Modern Prefab house in Lincoln: Almost Done!

We are a few days away from move-in day at our Lincoln project, so we closed the studio for a few hours and everyone took a pre-Certificate-of-Occupancy look. Yes, there is a bit of a final punch list (as always),…

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But we had better plans, and now hundreds of granite slabs have been repurposed in Arlington.
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Sustainable design; IKEA granite

Designing sustainably has never been an appealing fad as far as we have been concerned, nor is it even really a separate mission for us; it has always simply been the right thing to do. One recently completed Ruhl Walker…

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A view of the bi-folding wall from the exterior, showing the factory-finished aluminum clad finish on the exterior, while the interior is natural wood; so many options!
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Blurring inside and outside with opening walls!

Having worked on several cool projects in Hawai‘i over the last few years, our eyes have really been opened to architectural possibilities that rarely exist in New England. For example, we collaborated with Rhoady Lee Architecture and Design on the…

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The glassy living room volume seen from the lake.
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Mystic Lake house update

Just as construction of our Mystic Lake house was winding down, the neighbor’s house was demolished and construction began on their own new house; what goes around, comes around! And soon winter will have to arrive presumably; other than an…

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As you approach the house from the river, you become aware that the master bedroom windows on the far left are in a different plane from the living room windows. Between the two is a walnut clad volume that houses a fireplace and closets; this walnut cladding continues inside in both the living room and master bedroom.
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Westport River house is complete!

It’s been awhile since we posted an update for our Westport project, the modern house Ruhl Walker Architects designed to float above its Westport River site, and that we introduced back in January and April.  Rick and Susan have moved…

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Interior stairs connecting renovated lower level and new upper level; stairs are bleached ash and lower level floors are stained concrete
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Loving their new (almost finished) Westport River House

We are thrilled that our Westport clients are enjoying living in their new river front house, after recently having received their Certificate of Occupancy from the town! There is still an extensive punch list to complete, but after such a…

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Making progress on the Westport River House

The house as seen from the riverThe red cedar frame and brushed aluminum window system is complete other than at the screened porch in the upper right cornerThe clear finished walnut fireplace siding and lower level rain-screen will be completed…

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In Design: Custom Prefabricated House in Lincoln

This house started as a substantial renovation of an existing 50’s vintage modern house in Lincoln, MA.  Because the original program included a large laundry list of renovations to the existing house systems, once we began working with general contractors on…

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Mystic Lake House Framing Complete

Ruhl Walker Architects was hired by a young couple — he a high tech consultant for a bio-tech company, she an MIT-trained corporate architect — to design a new house for a steeply sloping site along lower Mystic Lake in Arlington,…

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