I recently took a drive around the Jordanelle Reservoir, and the flurry of new home starts reminded me of the early days when Park City was “discovered” as a resort destination. New homes are everywhere! The Tuhaye private gated golf community along State Route 248 is no exception to...
Scattered through Heber Valley this week are hundreds of artists hard at work at their easels, participating in Wasatch Plein Air.
In the Wasatch back, the week of July 4th is synonymous with artists at work. I have seen them with brushes in hand staring out at a field of...
Red Rock Division Headquarters for Onset Financial sets a new bar for commercial design in St. George.
For a year or so in the early 1980s I called St. George home, and I was enamored with the beauty of the red cliffs and desert, and I was drawn to the...
The glamorous powder room, an essential element of today’s home entertainment space, is certainly a step up from the humble half-bathroom.
It goes with the territory when you have done something for as long as I have been taking photographs of buildings and homes, that people ask about the changes...
With design emphasis on reception lobbies, offices are becoming more welcoming, friendly, and comfortable.
Making architectural photographs for as long as I have done, I have had an opportunity to observe shifts in design trends and approaches. Earlier, offices were very pragmatic spaces with strong attention paid to “usable space,”...
DesignBuildBLUFF celebrates its 20th year with a legacy of sustainable homes donated to clients.
It’s rare that I meet a University of Utah trained architect who participated in the DesignBuildBLUFF program who doesn’t describe it as the most meaningful part of his or her graduate education. It’s a collaborative program...
Belly up to the home bar and avoid finding a designated driver when you want to be as bubbly as your drink and raise spirits with some spirits.
Park City is renown as one of the great mountain resort towns, and true to its heritage as a miners’ town, there...
A beach town’s corner cottage at the Jersey Shore makes for a delightful spring break getaway.
This week I’m going to again tempt you to go east for spring break. Manasquan, New Jersey, is located along the Intercoastal Waterway and the Atlantic Ocean. Its origins are a summer escape from...
The Jersey Shore isn’t the first place Westerners may think of as a spring travel destination, but I can recommend it.Â
Spring several years ago found me at the Jersey Shore in the beach town of Manasquan, New Jersey, where I stayed as a guest of the owner of this...
New Draper office building reflects the mood of the sky.
Lately I have been talking about the significance of sky in photographs, especially in the winter when landscape is less dominant. A new office complex in an increasingly urbanized section of Draper recently reinforced this to me. Designed by Babcock...