! Studio News ! Applied Architecture

Move in day for our east sacramento clients has come … they were so gracious as to host a party for the many who helped them get to success including subcontractors, their families, and friends and neighbors.   Thanks right back to you, Ed and Kathleen! 

It was heartwarming to a note of thanks addressed to the architect, interior designer, and contractor that included this line  “You three – Mike, Pamela and Valentin –are the "godparents" of our new home.  Blushing now ….

A light filled and spacious house on a 40 x 100 foot parcel; all done for a lot less than $200 psf including fees permits and landscape … including the latest green sustainable features such as non-vented roof of closed cell foam; instant hot water and central vacuum; bamboo and no voc carpeting; led lighting throughout.   I call that a ‘hat trick’!

http://www.woodworks.org/resources/wood-podium-mixed-use-design/

Mike’s First Recorded Webinar – now on the Woodworks Site.  The first presentation of this webinar had over 400 in the audience from all over the country.

This is an art and industry themed rental living environment that will incorporate galleries and art related shops and work spaces.  Images and draft plans are on line here:

http://www.cadanet.org/project/capitol-lofts/

At 2pm this afternoon the Tax Credit Financing for the Capitol Lofts project was approved by the State Tax Credit Allocation Committee.  Less than half the projects – all scoring ‘maximum points’ in the CTAC vetting process – were funded due to limited resources.

This site on R Street between 11^th and 12^th has been stalled on the ‘launch pad’ for development for nearly a decade an a half.  As the previous development efforts had been stymied, in December of 2011, CFY Development Inc led by Cyrus Youssefi and his son Ali teamed with Michael F. Malinowski’s Applied Architecture Inc and attorney Pat Sabelhaus to take a fresh look at this landmark site.  This is the same development team behind the award winning Globe Mills and Historic Hotel Stockton historic adaptive reuse projects.

The concept funded today includes 116 units of rental housing, which range from studio mezzanine lofts to three bedroom 2 bath family sized apartments; both affordable and market rate rents.  There will also be over 14,000 sq ft of streetfront retail.  The historic six story warehouse is brought back to life; supplemented with new construction on the adjacent ‘pit’ that combines two levels of parking with a multi story 60 ft high new building wrapped in brick.  

An ‘art’ theme flows through the project that ties it to the emerging Arts District of the R Street corridor.  At the heart of the project – where the National Register qualified historic building meets the new lofts – is a large terrace covered with a Japanese maple forest, illuminated at night with firefly lighting that will be quietly mesmerizing.

The design was presented to the public on June 11^th to a very positive reception; a synopis of the presentation is on the CADA website.