Chicago Greystone

This grand, formal stone and brick house is designed for urban living.

Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.January 9, 2021 at 3:11am

This large window-wall was designed by Sam Marts Architects & Planners for the renovation of a storefront (former bakery) into a home. This window is located on axis with the dining table, providing a view into a fully realized, “naturalistic” stream-bed through a new garden.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.December 22, 2020 at 12:34am

Sam Marts Architects & Planners designed, and White Oak Timber Frame constructed, this partial timber frame to reinforce a one hundred year old lakeside house in Michigan. The upper portion of the timber frame will accommodate wider bedrooms as well as supporting a taller roof….

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.December 11, 2020 at 3:12am

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
Downtown, from a retail point of view, is really only a corner store…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.December 4, 2020 at 3:01pm

This is an example of extraordinary timber joinery. The timbers are fitted in a seemingly impossible decorative fashion. Used here to frame a “log cabin”, but more likely a “log palace”.

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.November 25, 2020 at 3:02am

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River.
A pair of larger houses were imagined to frame the main entry drive,…

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Sam Marts Architects & Planners Ltd.November 22, 2020 at 10:49pm

A few years ago, Sam Marts Architects & Planners participated in a design Charrette to imagine a new “village” on the east side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, along the Grand River. The neighborhood was imagined to be similar to a traditional, mid-western, small town with…

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