Here is the answer to yesterday’s Dream House Fumble question. I asked if you saw what was wrong with the brickwork. Here’s the photo, again, just to refresh your memory.

Dream House Fumble #3

    Does the brick look “glued on” to you? It does to me. (more…)

    I love well done Brick Masonry.

    “God is in the details.” So said Gustave Flaubert and later, and arguably more famously, said architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Regardless of the origin of the famous phrase, it is undeniably true.

    A good house, or any other structure for that matter, must have good “bones.” The overall composition, the proportions, and the massing must be right or no amount of detail can save it. I often joke with my clients that if their house looks good in Tyvek, when the whole thing is wrapped in white sheets of house wrap, it will look even better when it’s finished. That’s because the details bring the entire design to life. (more…)

    Here’s a photo from famous Torrey Pines Golf Course in San Diego, California. This was the site of this year’s U.S. Open golf championship, famously won by Tiger Woods who played on an injured knee. Not only did he have ligament damage in his left knee, Woods had stress fractures he had not mentioned. Still he played on and eventually won the biggest tournament of the year on a course that meant so much to him.

    His knee wasn’t the only thing that was out of whack at Torrey Pines. Check out the brickwork on the masonry posts around the first tee. It reminds me of Tiger’s pained follow through on some of his shots! (more…)