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TOOLS OF THE TRADE
From Left to Right: Guilford Residence, Chestnut Building, and Kitchen Zinc in New Haven, CT TOOLS OF THE TRADE What happens when you hire an architect? How many steps are involved in planning an ideal space? What kinds of documents are created? Take a look at the drawings from three projects as they go through…
AN ARCHITECT’S PROCESS
Projects on the drawing board at different stages: a conceptual sketch, a framing sketch, a landscape plan, 2 renderings, a construction drawing and wood samples. The process of architectural design is a collaborative one, between client and architect, between architect and engineers and other consultants, and between all of these and the construction team. The…
THE TRAVELING ARCHITECT: NEW MEXICO
Taos Pueblo, photos: Angelo Accomando In a few places in the world, one can imagine the architecture as being of the earth, forms inspired from the surrounding landscape. New Mexico is such a place. Platonic shifts, volcanoes, wind, water and ice have shaped the landscape over millennia. PaleoIndians, Archaic Hunter-Gatherers and the Ancestral Pueblo…
ADOBE ABODE
A modern adobe house in Albuquerque, based on the traditional courtyard house. An entry courtyard welcomes visitors to a shaded, landscaped outdoor vestibule that brings light into the kitchen and family room. Once in the house, a second large courtyard at the rear illuminates the living, dining and bedroom spaces. Where needed, smaller courtyards or…
129 CHURCH STREET
Welcome to the future home of Karin Patriquin Architect. We are excited to be moving our team to a new space in the heart of New Haven. We have designed a space that will foster our creative process, and will allow us the flexibility to add or change elements as we grow. Above are diagrams…
FROM OUR PORTFOLIO: ZINC RE-DESIGN
A RE-DESIGN GIVES ZINC RESTAURANT SOME EXTRA ZEST When the owners of Zinc Restaurant in New Haven, CT, wanted to update their 10-year-old restaurant on Chapel Street, they asked Clover Design and Karin Patriquin Architect to design and coordinate the effort. We had worked together previously on Kitchen Zinc, their sister restaurant on Temple Street…
DOWN THE ALLEY
There are some interesting things going on in Zinc’s backyard in New Haven. As well as new sunshades at sister restaurant Kitchen Zinc’s outdoor patio, Swiss urban artist Felice Varini has created a super-size paint-on-building materials installation in the alley between Chapel Street at Zinc’s corner to Temple Plaza, leading your eye and your feet…
NINE SQUARES
THE NINE SQUARES In April 1638, the Reverend John Davenport and Theophilus Eaton, an English merchant, led a group of 500 Puritans from England by way of Massachussetts, to found a settlement on the shores of Long Island Sound on land they purchased from the Quinnipiacs. The location for the theological community was chosen for its…
THREE TOWN GREENS
1850s drawings of Branford, Guilford, and Madison and their Town Greens (from top to bottom) THREE TOWN GREENS The three Connecticut Shoreline towns of Branford, Guilford and Madison were settled in 1638, 1639 and 1650 respectively, each around a Town Green. This open area, commonly found in English towns (also known as the Common), was…
THREE TOWN SIGNS
THREE TOWN SIGNS From Branford’s Plaque (pictured left): In 1638 the New Haven Colony traded ‘eleven coats of trucking cloth and one coat of English cloth made in the English fashion’ to the Mattabesec Indians fro land known as Totokett (Tidal River). The first permanent settlement was established in 1644 when people from Wethersfield came…