Author: Gelotte Hommas Architecture

As most of you know, Seattle has a pretty spectacular land mark -the Space Needle. As some of you may, or may not know, it came from the World’s Fair here in Seattle in 1962. Yea, a little Seattle knowledge. You’re welcome! Did you also know that when the Space Needle first arrived it was …

Re-purposing materials for another use is a part of our architectural practice with our projects, but it doesn’t stop there. When we moved into our current office building four years ago we gained an extra conference room. A bigger conference room, which of course needed a bigger conference room table. The current table that we …

Happy Friday everyone! Here in Seattle it has successfully rained and shined today with more of the same  forecasted this weekend. Considering that Seattle weather is known for being a little less than fun (in general) I thought we could kick on a Friday Fun series. From now on, we will be posting something fun about architecture or …

Today is the Seattle Foundation’s Give Big campaign. The event helps more than 1,400 local nonprofits raise money and awareness through online donations. “The idea is to create a sense of excitement around one day in which the whole community comes together to support the nonprofits,” said foundation spokeswoman Mary Grace Roske. Here at GHA local …

Pinterest is another social networking site that is similar to Houzz in that you post or “pin” images. The difference with Pinterest is that you organize your “pins” on boards instead of in idea books. You can search through all sorts of topics from #architecture to #fashion, #weddings and #pets and everything in between. Once …

Last month we shared that one of our projects Classic On The Green was going to be featured in the April Issue of Luxe Magazine. We received our copy of Luxe this week, and we wanted to share. The home has been internally re-designed by interior designer Steven Hensel. For those of you who don’t …

For all you Seattle area readers with kids ages 7-18, the Arc.I.Tek model making workshops start this weekend! Can’t make it this weekend? That’s ok – starting this Saturday and then every third Saturday until September at the Intiman theater Playhouse in Seattle we will be hosting these model making workshops. The cost is $20 for …

Materialicious is an online mecca for all things design, and today some homes by Gelotte Hommas are being featured. From architecture to fashion, automobiles to wood, and everything in between.  If it’s made of material, design related, and trendy you will find it on Materialicious. This is one more amazing resource for design inspiration we …

In our summer youth model making workshops Arc.I.Tek has three different age/grade levels to the competition: Novice: Grades 1-4 Apprentice: Grades 5-8 Distinguished: Grades 9-12 The grand prize for the Distinguished age group is an internship at Miller Hull Architects – total score! The winning student will have some major cookie points to showcase on …

Good morning and happy Friday! Last night we had our launch party for Arc.I.Tek and here is a brief re-cap; It was AWESOME!   We would like to say THANK YOU to all of the people who showed up to become volunteers. This is going to be such a great program, but we can’t do …