Studio Launch

Chicago

What a great chance to tour some buildings with our University of Utah School of Business clients in Chicago. Weather has been great. Company, tours, and food even better. We are visiting these "case studies" to understand the use of them...and to research what the design served well and what it has not served well.

But on a much smaller note. I love to see how humans interact with buildings. Close up. From placing helpful tips to each other in the form of signs...

To observing with laughter the "trick" of continuing the marker tray around and along the wall thereby "fooling" the users into thinking the white board continued as well...Who would have predicted?

To discovering messages left on the drawers to file cabinets in basement storage rooms...no, I didn't open it. What's in there?

More touring tomorrow.

Garden Folly

I have a friend I bumped into the other day.  He said that he was pondering building a garden-folly-modern-automobile-garage-party-hut.  I wanted to encourage him somehow and came up with the idea that he could receive an occasional email from me with ideas/pics of such a thing.  I sent out a request to a few folks across the country and in two hours had over 200 pics related to such a folly.  Now that's very, very cool.  Thank you to all who responded.

See some of them here > Garden Folly Pics