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Vote for SkyCottage!

SkyCottage, the home pictured above, has a chance to be published in Architectural Record magazine in January. And dear readers, we are counting on YOU to make it happen. This week, the project made it into ArchitecturalRecord.com's Top Ten Reader Photos. From these top ten lists, ArchRecord chooses the most voted-on projects to be published in an upcoming issue of the magazine. Published! In the magazine! In their words:

“Now readers can vote for their favorite images from our Top Ten Reader Photo lists. We will publish winning images in a future print issue of RECORD. The images from the November 13 and November 27 Top Ten lists with the most votes by December 4 will be published in our January issue.”

Stop what you are doing right now, and VOTE! Vote for SkyCottage, and tell all your friends to vote too. Just click HERE, make sure you are looking at a photo of SkyCottage by archimania, and click "Recommend."

No registration, minimal energy, and very little time required. However, if you do have energy and time, post a comment on our Facebook wall or Twitter page telling us you voted for our project on ArchitecturalRecord.com. The more people who know, the more people who vote. And the more people who vote, the better chance we have of being published/famous/really happy.

Moral of the story? If you love archimania, VOTE NOW.

Will you be there?

Barkitecture is tonight at Woodland Hills Country Club in Cordova. Will you be there to bid exorbitant amounts of money on our doghouse? You won't see any of these guys at the event, but you might see a few of their owners.

At Home in the Tennessee Woods

House in the Woods (the residence of our good friends Baker and Rhonda Raborn) is featured this month in At Home in Tennessee. We love the photos by Sara Dobbins and the excellent story by Lindsey Phillips. Go pick up a copy - it's worth the read!

DOGone it!

Back in September, we let you in on our pre-Barkitecture dog house design competition. But, we did not reveal the winner of the competition, which would be built and auctioned at the Barkitecture event to benefit the Weimaraner Rescue of the South and Memphis Area Golden Retriever Rescue. Ten loyal, talented, intelligent, like-minded, creative, design-savvy, neighborly, dog-loving, architecturally insightful archimania friends were gracious enough to judge our competition. Every judge contended that the decision was tough, but in the end, one house won out: DOGone House.

Congratulations the creators of DOGone House: Team 2, comprised of Tim Michael, Greg Price, Kayce Williford, and Barry Yoakum. Their proposed concept originates with a matchbox. Like the matchbox, the house is constructed of two components: an Outer Wrapper (a folded sheet of weathering steel) and an Inner Box (reclaimed western red cedar). Aging naturally, the steel sheet protects from the elements while the cedar box offers a softer lining that allows air to flow between the slats. Food and water bowls are integrated into the steel wrapper, and rigid felt strips are sandwiched between the floor's wood slats for the dog’s comfort. The matchbox concept allows the inner wood liner to be slid from its steel shell and easily washed.

Thanks to a few faithful archimaniacs, along with Providential Steel Fabricators, DOGone House is now built and (almost) ready for a canine resident. Click here for a brief photo chronicle of the archimaniacs working like... well, dogs. More photos of the final product to come!

Conservation Hall is Complete

That's right, folks - after all the digging, blasting, waterproofing, concrete-pouring, constructing, and covering back up again, the Tennessee's Governor's Mansion has a bonafied underground meeting facility. Conservation Hall is done, and it looks GREAT. Closeout items are still being taken care of, but the Hall is ready for receptions and meetings galore.

First Lady Andrea Conte invited the press to tour the facility recently, which brings us to this excellent article in the Commercial Appeal, written by Nashvillian Richard Locker. Amidst the negativity of neighborhood and funding-related controversy surrounding this project, Rick's story is a breath of fresh, positive air. See for your self, below and here.

SkyCottage Sneaks into Dwell

Attention Dwell readers: Turn to page 117 of your October edition.

While we'd rather see a full-bleed, four-page spread of one of our projects in Dwell magazine, this is a pretty good start. A few months ago, SkyCottage was a finalist for a competition called 'Site Specific' held by Spark Modern Fires. Our place in the ranks gets us a spot in Spark's fall advertising campaign. That rockin' fireplace set at the bottom of the page, complete with a fireside companion, is none other than Barry Yoakum's living room. Thanks to Spark Modern for the visibility, and here's hoping we'll get that spread in the near future!