The July issue of Clem Labine’s Period Homes profiles this year’s Palladio Award winning projects, including “Traditional in Texas” written by Kiley Jacques about our own Longwood Farm. The project joins our 2014 Palladio Award winner, Seaside Residence, in this distinction.
Summing up the aesthetic principles driving the project, Ms. Jacques writes, “The former horse farm-turned family retreat evokes the spirit of an English manor while giving a solid nod to the vernacular.”
The Palladio Awards, sponsored by Period Homes and Traditional Building magazines, is the only award to honor excellence in Traditional Design.
Dog days of summer have us dreaming of a dip in this pool followed by a glass of tea on the porch. Luxe Magazine agreed and features this short interview with Russell Windham about the project.
An endless source of design inspiration for today’s traditional architects, the London townhouse of Sir John Soane which houses the Soane Museum, has for the first time in 160 years opened the private apartments of the architect to the public. Painstakingly restored to the state in which it was left after Soane’s death, the opening of the apartments, which include the historic model room and a private bath, is the Stage II of Opening Up The Soane project (OUTS) that aims to restore and refurbish the enduring legacy of this great architect.
The Soane Museum, rotunda
The Soane Museum – Breakfast Parlor
A master of light, space, and texture, Sir John Soane used variation in the building volume to sculpt dynamic spaces. Strategically injected with natural light and often enhanced with convex mirrors, rooms form dramatic backdrops for the obsessively designed vignettes of his vast collection of sculptures, architectural models, and a multitude of decorative objects.
In Soane’s spaces we often find inspiration for our own. Below are renderings of several rooms of an unbuilt residence in Houston. The house was to have a succession of volumetrically diverse spaces awash in natural light.
Regency Style House in River Oaks master sitting room
Regency Style House in River Oaks dining room corridor
Regency Style House in River Oaks dining room
Regency Style House in River Oaks courtyard
The dish room shown below for a residence currently under construction on Meadow Lake in Houston also looks to Soane’s breakfast parlor.
We are proud to announce Curtis & Windham’s second consecutive Palladio Award for Longwood Farm, recognized in the category of new construction over 5,000 square feet.
At Longwood Farm, we sought to create a weekend country house whose design reflects regional architecture with a decidedly English influence. Set on the rolling prairie that preludes Texas Hill Country and guided by a traditional English model of living and entertaining on a rural estate, the natural features of this former equestrian property – meadow, forest, and creekbed – were edited to enhance and guide the views and experience throughout the property. The English model also informed the design and placement of the house in the landscape as both an object to be viewed from a distance and as a hilltop vantage point from which to look out into the landscape. In keeping with its Texas/English influences, the main body of the house is a tumbled local limestone with a thin coat of cement parging. By contrast, the side wings are rendered in clapboard siding in a nod to the vernacular Texas farmhouse. In a similar melding of cultures, neoclassical details in the Great Room give way to more simply constructed details in less formal rooms.
The jury included Michael Imber, Michael Imber Architects; Ankie Barnes, Barnes Vanze Architects; Tom Kligerman, Ike Kligerman Barkley and Wayne Good, Good Architecture.
The Palladio Awards are the only national awards program honoring traditional design, and are produced by Clem Labine’sPeriod Homes magazine. The award will be presented July 21 in Princeton, New Jersey, during the Traditional Building Conference.
We are looking to fill a summer internship position in our architecture studio. Applicants should demonstrate enthusiasm for traditional and classical architecture and possess proficiency in hand drawing and rendering; AutoCAD, Photoshop and Sketchup experience is a plus. Qualified candidates are current students in a Bachelors or Masters degree program in architecture.
Please submit cover letter, resumes, and work samples to [email protected]. Subject line: Summer Internship 201504
