NEW PHOTOS - STL - GREAT ROOM

All photos © Indivar Sivanathan

For floor plan and further details see Heeschen Project under Work

AERO

Designed for the gala fundraiser for the Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles held this past June, celebrating surf culture,  West of West  created aero - an experimental surf craft rooted in surfboard design history sculpturally anticipating a radical future. Check it out!

Links to learn more: http://www.designboom.com/design/west-of-west-aero-surfboard-07-31-2014/       and    http://aplusd.org/celebrate2014 
and   http://www.westofwest.com/

Aero is cool!

NEW PHOTOS - STL - KITCHEN

Of particular note: the beautiful vertical grain fir cabinets were made by the owner.

All photos © Indivar Sivanathan

For floor plan and further details see Heeschen Project under Work

You Will Know You Are Here . . . .

should you come to visit . . . .

FRESH PHOTOS - STL- FRONT ELEVATIONS

All photos © Indivar Sivanathan

For floor plan and further details see Heeschen Project under Work

SQUARE CIRCLE

We have recently created several pieces of furniture. Thematically, they express 'natural modern'.    Here is a peek at two:

   An Uncommon Bench

Red Lounge Coffee Table


After reading the rest of this blog,   go to   www.sq-c.net to see more.

IT IS TIME, FOLKS

What does the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,  www.ipcc.ch ,
Charlie Rose, www.charlierose.com/watch/60367932 , 
Jerry Brown, www.opr.ca.gov/s_climatechangefacts.php  ,
Passive House, www.passivehousecal.org , and myself have in common? 

We all know it is time to act on Climate Change. And we all can act.

So what can we do?

For myself, as a designer of buildings we occupy,  you will see many
 references in this blog to the Passive House strategy, the definitive 
approach to increase energy efficiency thus reducing energy use.
Take it seriously. It makes eminent sense.
In our lucky coastal California climate application of the strategy 
adds only a few percentage points to the overall cost of new buildings. 
Retrofits just a little more. So looking forward, take the long view, 
the return is positive both monetarily and globally.

So what can you do?