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June 3, 2015

Let’s say your dream is to open a restaurant. You probably have a few questions like “where will my restaurant…

May 29, 2015

Sustainable living is the foundation of our company. Over the years, it’s been integrated more and more into our culture…

May 20, 2015

Once in a great while we and our clients are so in tune that we think of the same idea…

April 21, 2015

One of Shelter Architecture’s residential projects, “Modest Midcentury,” will be featured as a 2015 Home of the Month in…

March 17, 2015

Commercial projects represent about half of Shelter's design work and they are typically driven by very different ideas than our…

March 9, 2015

A big part of our job involves reading through code manuals and zoning ordinances because, let’s face it, figuring out…

March 3, 2015

The word “inspiration” has many meanings and a boatload of uses. The term is tough to tack down because it…

February 24, 2015

Having a tagalong pet has changed the dynamics in our office. Sir Otis Macintosh, a forty pound Border Collie/Corgi mix,…

February 18, 2015

Lately, we’ve been thinking about scale. As a design term, scale refers to the size of one part relative to…