Project Challenge
The starting point for the renovation was a modest Victorian house in very poor condition, with rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from each other, as was typical of houses built in the era where privacy was a cultural priority. In another gesture to the Victorian public decoration, arrangements of existing interior spaces reinforce the ancient ideal of work and family life should be separate.

Although the client requested to renovate the space do the work in the house, while maintaining a clear separation from his family life was also important to create a modern and bright space that seemed small in size and continues to be spacious and connected visually. Read the rest of this entry »

You saw it here first! Rare interior photographs of the Kamman Building at 755-757 Seneca Street, set to be overhauled by a top-to-bottom renovation this year, reveal pre-restoration perspectives of the historic commercial structure only months before construction is set to begin.

The Kamman Building, designed by architect F. W. Caulkins around 1880, has been vacant for more than ten years, but like many structures of its vintage, has held up well against a tide of citywide disinvestment over the past half-century and stands well to benefit from adaptive reuse. Read the rest of this entry »