Buttrick Projects Architecture+Design is a practice that creates thoughtful, elegant buildings, interiors and hardscapes crafted to the specific vision and programmatic needs of each client and project site. Informed through attentive listening and observation, our projects unfold from myriad influences, with value, integrity, and proportion always in mind. Working on brand new as well as older historic projects, mostly in the Bay Area, we are familiar with traditional and contemporary styles and techniques. We design responsibly, creating integrated, energy efficient, healthy, lasting spaces. Our services include conceptual design, approvals, construction details, specifications as well as interiors and hardscape design.
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The Art House project includes the addition of three small structures on two adjacent parcels, retaining the original 1920s home where the owners raised their four children, while more than doubling their living space.
A series of volumes was inserted at the perimeter of this 60’s boomerang plan to remedy the staid quality of the previous interior geometry and make the landscape more tangible from inside.
The Filbert Cottages were built as modest rental housing by William Bush during the construction frenzy that followed the 1906 earthquake.
Hilltop Cottage was built on a bluff above the Connecticut River, in Lyme, Connecticut, as a weekend retreat for a large, hospitable, cultured family.
The clients desired a versatile, informal family home centered on a bright, day-lit main room that could comfortably accommodate a range of uses as well as objects, furniture and pictures.
This 1950’s house was long in need of an upgrade and expansion to capitalize on otherwise ‘good bones’ and to satisfy the needs of a family with young children.
