Residential Projects

L House

2024 Winner: Historic Preservation Board Award - New Single Family

Project Total Square Footage: 4,406 S.F Date of Completion: 06/07/2024 Location: West Palm Beach, FL

Situated in an established historic neighborhood, with existing Mediterranean Revival Florida houses of the mid- 1920’s as neighbors, this new infill residence draws inspiration from the special climate of South Florida. Situated one block west of the intra-coastal waterway, the courtyard home is designed to embrace the sun, breezes, and outdoor activities.

Bioclimatic design elements such as using barrel tile roof and using the homes thermal mass offsets energy cost for cooling. Rooms are designed and located for natural light and cross ventilation. Its structure combines thermally efficient materials and passive solutions such as deep overhangs, loggias and pergolas.

The architectural design feature classical detailing and proportioning to be contextually accurate while not duplicating the existing Mediterranean Revival homes of the historic district. Natural materials selected: Clay barrel tile roof, cypress out-lookers and frieze board, textured stucco walls, brick and travertine pavers.

Kanuga House

724 KANUGA
YEAR COMPLETED 2024
AREA 3,090 SF

This historically contributing split-level home is located in the Flamingo Park Historic District in West Palm Beach and was built in 1957.

The front yard was terraced with native plantings, while the new cottage and pergola frame a landscaped central courtyard.

The 1953 home was renovated with an 822 S.F. addition, a 315 S.F. guest cottage/studio at the southeast corner, and a metal louvered pergola by the kitchen.

Interior updates include a new kitchen and pantry, and vaulted ceilings in the living and dining areas. The addition created a primary suite and relocated the main stair for improved access across three levels.

Country Club House

A new 2 story residence with flanking garages frames a porticoed entrance. The Georgian Style home has the primary bedroom suite located on the first floor with 4 additional and second floor elevator access.

Living areas, outdoor loggias, and the primary bedroom overlook a garden and pool area.

Pershing 1 House

"It has been said that at its best preservation engages the past in a conversation with the present over a mutual concern over the future."

William J. Murtagh, Keeping Time: The History and Theory of Preservation in America

The design of this house called for thoughtful blend of old and new, along with a delicate response to site, climatic factors while addressing contemporary family needs. Climatic factors include direct sun exposure, heavy rains, hurricane resistant construction and taking advantage of the prevailing breezes.

Research of the El Cid Historic Neighborhood reveals spectacular Mediterranean Revival homes constructed in the 1920’s with Italian, Spanish, Venetian and Moroccan architectural details. These homes were inspired by the Palm Beach homes being designed at the time most notably by Addison Mizner, Maurice Fatio and John Volk.

The homeowners called for a traditional home meeting contemporary family need for living, entertaining and sleeping. The home was arranged on two levels with the active areas on the first floor and the sleeping rooms on the second floor.

Preliminary plans and sketches reveal a home with simple massing, a tower element and balconies reminiscent of the Mediterranean homes of the 1920’s. The main street façade (South Elevation) celebrates the prominent style of El Cid and acknowledges the South Florid Climate.

The first story is perceived as solid emphasizing the historic thick walls of the style and insulates the home from the sun’s southern exposure. The floor plan was conceived to be processional, starting at the entrance courtyard established by the wall of the building, a tiled water fountain to the west, diagonal brick paving below and landscaping to the East.

The columnated arched entrance is recessed with flanking circular openings Emphasizing the symmetry of the entrance and a thick wood paneled door is at both beautiful and is hurricane resistant. The front facing two car garage is in context with the homes on the block and provide a buffer between the exterior and interior spaces.

The mass of the first floor is playfully counterbalanced by the openness of the second-floor façade and reveals design part, a juxtaposition of solids versus voids. The deep roof overhangs with cypress scrolled outriggers and stained cypress soffits maintain the rain off the building façade.

The verandahs design responds to the climate allowing sitting in the shade to enjoy the breezes and water views to the east. Solar heat gain is minimizes keeping the home more energy efficient. The west verandah has 7 columnated arches and maintains a scale with the tower arched windows and the single arched window above the west garage door.

The finial below the windows sill is repeated at the cornice of the tower. The east verandah in front of the Master Bedroom is open and framed by 7 chamfered cypress columns with cypress scrolled capitals supporting a cypress beam above.

Linking both verandahs is an open balcony accessible from the second-floor stair hall, allowing access to the verandahs without having to enter the bedrooms. The home converses with the present addressing contemporary family needs, hurricane resistant construction, and embraces updated construction technology.

The mutual concern for the future of the neighborhood is achieved by maintaining the status of the neighborhood as West Palm Beach’s premier Historic Neighborhood.

Pershing 2 House

This project offered a rare opportunity to design a new home in the exclusive Historic District of El Cid in West Palm Beach. The design incorporated elements of the 1920’s Mediterranean architecture of the district by emulating the style but not directly duplicating any of the existing homes in the district.

One of the early design decisions was to place the garage at the rear of the property to eliminate the front facing garage doors at the home’s façade to be more congruent with 1920’s homes in the area. Mediterranean architectural details.

A timber framed covered colonnade veranda spans over the entrance on the second floor. The home has 3 bedrooms on the second floor and a common balcony overlooking the pool. The detached garage also has a guest bedroom on the second floor. The one-story family room on the west side of the home pays homage to the previous home on the property.

Lost Tree Village

Completed in 2015, this 4,800 square foot house was transformed into a modern Bermudan cottage that fits comfortably in the traditional intracoastal community of Lost Tree Village.

La Salona House

Overview: A careful restoration, alteration, and addition to landmarked single family residence in south Florida.

Year Completed: 2017
Area: 20,000 SF

Completed in 2017, the 6,250 square foot addition to the existing 14,150 square foot residence provides a much-needed family retreat that seamlessly completes the original 1926 Marion Syms Wyeth and 1929 Maurice Fatio cortile of this Landmarked home.

The recent addition of the western portion of the home was completed in 2016. The tree story addition encloses the pool courtyard, includes a basement features a home gym, a billiards room and mechanical storage.

The first floor features a 2-story family room centered on the existing pool, a two-car garage and three ensuite bedrooms. The second floor of the addition includes 3 additional en-suite bedrooms and a family room.

The addition complements the historic residence, drawing its inspiration but maintaining its uniqueness. Beautiful architectural details abound including stenciled pecky cypress ceilings and paneling, stone floors, azulejo tile wainscot walls , and cut coral walkways leading to lavish gardens with fountains allows outdoor lounging and dining.

Tangier House

A new 2 story single family home designed in the Cape Dutch style is situated on a long narrow site. The garage and guest house are located at the rear of the property and frame the courtyard and the pool. A covered via connects the guest house to the main house.

All bedrooms are located on the second floor including the primary suite which is centered in the home with a terrace overlooking the pool.

Washington Ave House

Recipient of the 2014, City of West Palm Beach Historic Preservation Award.

This 5,250 SF, iconic 1926 Landmark home, known as the “Castle House”, was meticulously restored with sensitive additions and alterations to accommodate a large family.

Project Type: Restoration, Alteration and Addition to Existing Historically Designated Residence Year Completed: 2013

Georgia House

Historic Preservation Board Award Winner
Situated in the Grandview Heights Historic District, known for early 1900’s Craftsman bungalows, the home designed in 2018 is a recipient of the 2019 New Construction in a Historic District.

The Craftsman style came to the United States in the early 1900’s and promoted home designs for the average homeowner, simplicity of design and the use of natural building elements.

The homes are recognized by their extended eaves, low slung roofs and large inviting front porches with thick, tapered columns. The homes are modest and casual in feel and livability.

The 2,187 Square foot 2 story home homes feature an open plan on the first floor for entertaining and living areas as well as the garage. The expansive porch wraps the home on the first floor. The 3 bedrooms are located on the second floor.

A metal roof covers the home with exposed rafter tails, wood siding is expressed on the second floor, while stucco covers the first floor. The 3 over 1 window patterns, tapered porch columns, aluminum diagonal cross railings, cottage style garage doors, and a central dormer on the roof over the entrance adorn the home.

Almeria House

West Palm Beach, FL

Designed in the Mediterranean Revival style, located in the prestigious El Cid Historic neighborhood, the 4,500.00 S.F. 2 – story home designed in 2013.

The home not only draws inspiration from the predominant architectural style of the neighborhood homes dating from the 1920’s and introduced to West Palm Beach via the architecture of Addison Mizner in Palm Beach but also the Spanish Colonial Architecture of Southern California.

Entry to the residence is through an octagonal stair hall, featuring a cast stone frontispiece with a shallow balcony located at the intermediate stair landing, and culminating in a tiled ogee arch.

Additional decorative elements such as balcony railings, tiled niches, arched openings, and a decorative tiled frieze below the cast stone cornice accentuate the home.

Oleander House

Palm Beach
Year Completed: 2025
Area 2,518 SF

A new two-story Mediterranean Style home with an attached carport on the West Side of the home.

The home sits on a compact lot and was carefully designed and detailed very efficiently to satisfy the client’s programmatic requirements. The home features a clay barrel tile roof, wood eaves and outlookers, impact rated doors and windows, a custom paneled wood entrance door, and aluminum railings.

The four-bedroom home has the primary suite on the Second Floor with a private balcony over the entrance while the other north facing bedroom has a covered balcony adorning the front of the home.
A barrel tiled insert site wall privatizes the home from the street and initiates the entrance to the home.

Sunset House

YEAR COMPLETED – 2024 AREA 2,636 SF This home is an infill project and entails designing a new home in the newest Historic District of Sunshine Park in West Palm Beach. The Mission Style home complements the predominant architecture of the district’s modest homes built in the 1920’s.

A sloped wall barrel clay tile covered arched portico announces the entrance. The home’s symmetry is highlighted with double arched windows on the first floor separated by a decorative pilaster. The 6 over 1 window pattern, typical of Mission Style Architecture, is executed throughout the home.

The 6 over 1 window pattern, typical of Mission Style Architecture, is executed throughout the home. The home is crowned by a high parapet which slopes to a lower parapet height. Circular decorative roof vents dot the façade above the second floor and recall 1920’s attic venting details.

The open plan concept of the first floor is a contemporary solution but allows for natural light to pour into the home from all directions. The three bedrooms are located on the second floor with the primary bedroom overlooking the pool.

Granada House

YEAR COMPLETED 2025 AREA 2,518 SF This historical contributing Mission Style home is in the El Cid Historic District in West Palm Beach and was built in 1928.

The existing 1789 S.F. home was renovated and includes a 729 S.F. addition. The entire home’s interior was renovated which presented an opportunity to structurally reinforce the wood framing and the terra cotta exterior block.

New impact rated doors and windows were installed, and the original pecky cypress wood entrance door was refurbished. The original cast stone frontispiece was also carefully restored. The addition to the rear consisted of a new Primary Bedroom, bath and closets.

A new loggia links the original home to the addition. Additional First Floor renovations included a new kitchen and laundry room. Second floor renovations included raising the ceiling in the bedrooms, and new ensuite bathrooms.

Attlantic Ave House

The project’s challenge started with a 950 square foot wood framed single story house built in 1920.

The renovation required the house to be raised on a new concrete foundation to meet current flood requirements. The home’s design recalls one-story bungalow homes built in Palm Beach at the early part of the century.

A Primary Bedroom suite addition was constructed at the rear of the property accessible through a covered porch behind the dining room area.