Category: Architecture
Tahoe Real Estate Earns National Recognition
Written by Michael Kilburg Say what you will about Michael Corleone’s faults, at least The Godfather gangster had good taste. Corleone chose Lake Tahoe’s iconic Fleur du Lac as one of the fictional crime family’s homes. Turns out, plenty of others would do the same. In January, the approximately 4,100 square foot second unit […]
Remaking Reno
Redevelopment trend takes neighborhoods from gritty to great Written by Matthew Renda Urban infill is an emergent trend in planning and development circles describing the reuse or repositioning of obsolete or underutilized buildings and sites. While this dry definition applies to development activity in cities like Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Portland, Oregon, for Reno—where the discipline […]
Solutions in Solid Timber
Written by Kyle Magin Solid timber construction—an ancient technology recently rediscovered—is making its debut in Placer County’s Martis Camp development this summer. Truckee’s RDA Architecture and its father-son team of architects Gordon and Andre Pierce are bringing the technique to town with a home for Gordon on one of Martis Camp’s cabin lots. The technology […]
Center for Creative Energy
“Martis Camp is a playground for design,” says interior designer Catherine Macfee, who owns Tahoe City’s Rubicon Collection. Indeed, accounting for the bulk of the regiona’s new constructin, the planned community, with its accomodating design requirements, is turning into a showcase for the area’s builders, designers and craftsmen to highlight the latest trends and most […]
Architectural Showcase
“All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of a space that contains, cuddles, exalts or stimulates the persons in the space.” – Philip Johnson. Just as that influential American architect left his mark on how we live, work and play, so have the men and women designing homes in Martis Camp sought […]
