The St. Edward’s University Board of Directors’ has approved the design of the Doyle Hall Renovation and Addition. Demolition to begin Fall 2008 - check out the images under Institutional!
Lebanese magazine Architecture Lab, dedicated to everything related to architecture, features zeroHouse in the sustainable design category www.architecturelab.net/2008/04/27/zerohouse-by-specht-harpman/
Profiled in this month’s issue of “home review”, the Indian based design magazine highlights zeroHouse under the Go Green section. Run to your local newstand!
zeroHouse is recognized as one of Architectural Record’s 2008 Record Houses. Including green features and taking sustainable design to the extreme, see what they say: http://archrecord.construction.com/
www.e-architect.co.uk/zerohouse.htm this UK based site covers, News, Buildings, Architects and now zeroHouse!
Providing the New Zealand architecture community with an open discussion, ShareArchitecure gave us a shout out http://www.sharearchitecture.co.nz/zero-house-scott-specht-p-88.html
Do you dig it? According to digg.com, people definitely dug zerohouse! Check out what people said at the website http://digg.com/search?section=all&s=zerohouse
Front and center was a nice place to find an article on zeroHouse referred to as a “Mini-luxury home steps lightly on the earth” see the entire story at http://www.aia.org/aiarchitect/thisweek08/0321/0321p.cfm
We found ourselves happy to be considered part of the network of designers featured on the hip site www.notcot.org/?action=search&show=&query=zerohouse&postsub.x=0&postsub.y=0, which profiles creatives, design lovers and trendsetters sharing innovative ideas.
Prefab Friday Fabulous, or so we thought when we saw zeroHouse highlighted as the “answer to all of our zero-energy prefab dreams” http://www.inhabitat.com
Word on the street is that zeroHouse is huge in China, from Shanghai to Hong Kong, zeroHouse has been profiled for its energy efficiency and adaptability to most building sites. Head to your local newstand and grab issue 1571 of The China Times”.
Germany’s Ehrensent www.ehrensenf.de/linktipps/autonome-architektur featured zeroHouse on its website. With its emphasis on what’s cool, interesting and cutting edge zeroHouse definitely fits in.
Specht Harpman hits the KUT airwaves
Specht Harpman’s own Louise Harpman was on the jury that determined the winner of the Art City Austin design competition. Set your dial to http://kut.org/items/show/12228 to hear the broadcast.
zeroHouse wins Texas Society of Architects award
The zerohouse was the only winner of a 2007 TSA Studio Award. The Studio Award category encompassed all unbuilt and theoretical work. Images of the house appeared in the October 2007 issue of Texas Architect magazine, and the house was presented at the TSA convention in Austin. http://texasarchitect.org/news_detail.php?news_id=116&sess_id=c717d8987367465ea523cad06eb1f537
Crowd “goes wild” for Specht Harpman at Pecha Kucha Night
Apparently, we were a big hit at the Pecha Kucha Night in Austin, or at least so says Ingrid Spencer, a writer for Architectural Record Magazine. Read her opinion of the night here: http://archrecord.construction.com/community/blogs/ARBlog.asp
Concrete Media and Inside.com in “New York 2000”
Two of our projects were included in the latest massive volume of the “New York” series by Robert Stern (this one is 1300 pages and weighs in at nearly 11 pounds). Available at Amazon if you can pay the shipping charges: http://www.amazon.com/New-York-2000-Architecture-Bicentennial/dp/1580931774
Modern Barn in Architectural Record
Our Modern Barn is a featured project in the Residential Quarterly section of the July 2006 issue of Architectural Record. The article can also be found at: http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/residential/archives/0607connHouse.asp
