Laurel Delp

1 month ago | westernartandarchitecture.com | Laurel Delp |Wend Agency |in April

RENDERING: BUILT TO BELONGArizona may have its fair share of Taliesin educated or inspired architects, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any more dedicated to the design philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright than founder Ron Brissette and partner Jeff Kamtz of Phoenix, Arizona-based Brissette Architects. That’s not to imply they’re designing Wright clones — far from it.

Oct 31, 2024 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Laurel Delp |Wend Agency

RENDERING: FROM SHOES TO STRUCTURESThe founders of the Salt Lake City, Utah-based WOW Atelier didn’t connect on the well-trod path of so many architecture firms; they didn’t meet in architecture school or while working for other designers. No. They became good friends while working at Nordstrom, Gregory Walker in men’s shoes and Chimso Onwuegbu in women’s.

Sep 6, 2024 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Laurel Delp |Wend Agency |In October

Rendering: Client-Centered Architecture“You never know where you’re going to get that first job,” says architect Chris Gray with a laugh. When he and Steven Perce co-founded the Boulder, Colorado-based bldg.collective in 2009, the firm was just the two of them working from their homes. That first job arrived when a contractor needed an energy model for a house he was building.

May 2, 2024 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Laurel Delp |Wend Agency |In June |Patrick Coulie

For Crystal Harbour in the Cayman Islands, the clients sought a net zero design that provided privacy and openness to the harborside site’s natural beauty. A glass-enclosed breezeway separates the living area from the bedrooms.

Mar 15, 2023 | westernartandarchitecture.com | Laurel Delp |Wend Agency |in April

Rendering: Responsive and ResonantYou don’t come across too many architecture firms named after a flower, but Seattle-based Heliotrope Architects chose a flower named for the Greek god of the sun, a flower that constantly turns its face to the light. In 1999, founders Joe Herrin and Mike Mora were on their way to a meeting when they realized they needed to name their new firm. By the time they’d arrived, it had become Heliotrope.