6 Resources to Inspire Your Style

We’ve found a few resources to inspire your dream home!

Joy!

Gelotte Hommas Architecture thanks our clients, contractors, and consultants for their thoughtful holiday greetings!

GHA Holiday Cards: A Look Back

Look back at our thirty year Christmas tradition–the annual Gelotte Hommas Architecture holiday card!

Working Your Architectural Angles

Three of the main tenants of the design theory and mindset at Gelotte Hommas Architecture are form, beauty, and architecture. A good architect needs the same know-how as a Super Model: You have to know how to work your angles. Geometric patterns are one of the biggest, booming trends in fashion today. From the ever …

Who will be lucky number 200?

We are not one of these huge facebook fan pages with thousands of fans, but the ones we have we love. We have loyal clients and friends and we are honored for each and every comment, “like”, share and post. We are really excited to say that as of today we have 199 facebook “Likes” …

Rammed Earth; a gorgeous environmentally friendly building option

We have a new client who is interested in environmentally friendly building options. One of the options that we showed them is called Rammed Earth. Most people have never heard of this method, so we thought we would share this really neat and beautiful technique. Rammed Earth (as defined by Wikipedia)  is used for the …

Presenting the 2012 Arc.I.Tek youth program

We have been talking about this for almost a year, and we are so very proud to say it is finally here! ARC.I.TEK is a program built for engaging and guiding young Seattle citizens in learning the process of architecture and design, developing their skill sets and assisting them to shape their vision of the …

Get Ready for the Seattle Design Festival

As a member of AIA, Gelotte Hommas Architecture is more than ready for the Seattle Design Festival, coming up next month in Washington state. This year’s event is sure to be as wonderful as years past, if not better. Also this year, our firm will have a wonderful surprise to announce. The 2011 Seattle Design Festival …

Seattle thinking about reuse. Good or bad?

Could adapting office buildings to residential be a viable solution in downtown Seattle? That’s a questionPublicola.com recently asked given the city of Seattle’s goal of bringing more housing to downtown. The one recent example of a large-scale conversion from office to residential in Seattle that the author cites as working: The Cobb, at 4th and University. …