2012 Arizona Barbecue Festival
This Saturday - May 19th, 2012
We are dusting off the grill, grabbing the charcoal and preparing to get the booth ready for the 3rd Annual Arizona Barbeque Festival. In the past 2 years we have won 7 awards competing at the festival. We have a great booth concept this year and are of course bringing back the flying chickens for another round in:
Flight of the Chickens – Part Deux
Join us on May 19th at Salt River fields – at Talking Stick for food and fun. Our booth is next to the mechanical bull…things could get a bit crazy…
AZ BBQ Festival http://azbbqfestival.com/
houndPOUND
A new private kennel facility in Flagstaff, Arizona designed by 180 degrees and built by Loven Contracting, Inc. was built to house 90 adult hounds. The facility includes separate lodges for the male and female hounds, whelping rooms and puppy pens. There is a communal feed lodge, vet area and workshop for the staff.
The design of the facility is centered on natural lighting and ventilation to minimize reliance on electrical and mechanical means. The floors have a 4% slope and incorporate raised curbs between rooms to promote sanitary conditions and assist in increasing the efficiency of the daily cleanings. Durable finishes were selected to protect the building from the extremely active hounds.
steel garden staircase
part 2 of 2 - one year later
One year later we paid a visit to the completed staircase. The owners have softened the look of the steel with plenty of desert adapted plants. It has become a fixture in the courtyard garden and a hit in the neighborhood. The combination of a beautiful project and happy clients brings a smile to all who worked on this.
steel subcontractor - Flash Forward Design
steel garden staircase
part 1 of 2
to see the finished product a year later check back tomorrow
When a Phoenix couple needed to replace a damaged wood staircase to their roof terrace they searched the internet for pre-fabricated solutions and found many functional options, but all were less than inspiring. Through 6 degrees of separation, they found our company, and asked us to design and construct a functional, yet elegant solution in a staircase to access their roof terrace which overlooks Camelback Mountain. Due to size constraints in their small courtyard, a spiral staircase was agreed upon as it required less real estate. The typical rise/run of a standard spiral staircase was analyzed and dismissed since the staircase needed to be more functional for taking food and drinks up the to the terrace.
With a limited budget in mind, 180 degrees designed the entire staircase from one material - steel. A quick water color sketch illustrating a hanging garden was provided to the owners and from their fabrication began. The treads and components of the stairs were carefully nested and water-jet cut from four sheets of ¼” hot rolled plate sheets. A central steel spine, pipe railing and recycled steel mesh completed the components of the staircase.
The Phoenix couple now have an elegant, yet functional art piece in their small courtyard. Flash Forward Design and Artistic Lighting Installs collaborated on the steel fabrication and lighting respectively.
From large projects to small, our team at 180 degrees are always looking to find the art in everything we design and build. Resist the mundane, the world has enough of it.
steel subcontractor - Flash Forward Design
stone court villa
the rising
nothing says morning like setting concrete form work.
2012 Great Cajun Cook-Off
Sunday at the 2012 Great Cajun Cook-off and Food Fest, Master Chef Trahan won not only the People’s Choice Award but also the Judges Choice Award for Best Jambalaya. This dish is Krewe Chic-A-La-Pie Jambalaya and is named after the Mardi Gras parade Krewe from Kaplan, LA where the chef is from.
If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere. ~Vincent Van Gogh
Stone Court Villa
three men in a cage
The two utility enclosures at the entrance of this project are made of 8” thick concrete walls. This is the creation of the rebar walls that will become embedded inside the concrete. All rebar intersections are tied with wire to hold their position while the concrete is poured into the forms. The two men and one orangutan are part of the 180 degrees concrete crew.
Visit us at the Modern Phoenix Expo
This is Modern Phoenix Week and if you are not friends with Modern Phoenix you are missing out!
They have a great home tour lined up for this Sunday and if you did not get tickets already you will need to wait for next year – they are sold out. Even if your able to go on the home tour, there is still a great opportunity on Saturday to be immersed in some great architecture, discussions and meet with people that are tuned into the great architecture in the valley. People like John Jacquemart and Donna Reiner, Tazmine Loomans of Blooming Rock Development, Max Underwood , Doug Sydnor, FAIA and Allan Wright Green.
Join us from 11:00 am to 5:30 pm at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. James and John will be there and we hope you stop by to visit. More details on the Expo can be found athttp://www.modernphoenix.net/hometour/
Modern Phoenix http://www.modernphoenix.net/
SMoCA http://www.smoca.org/
Blooming Rock Development http://bloomingrock.com/
Too many vectors on the fly mode
…..of course, what was I thinking. I love you old plotter.
Can’t box these guys in? Donald Judd did.
artwork - Donald Judd
los angelas county museum of contemporary art
stone court villa
Panoramic shot from the roof. View of the interior courtyard and surrounding landscape.
Trahan Residence
amazing growing rock
At the Trahan residence a rock was placed under a rain scupper for the butterfly roof. After years of summer monsoons the rock began to grow. Five years later the rock is almost six feet tall. In a couple years we may have an issue…
stone court villa
precast lintels…a production timeline
This project contains over 40 lintels of varying sizes. The production of these lintels begins with 3d drawings. Once approved the factory creates shop drawings to be approved by the architect. Exacting formwork is then built to hold the wet concrete which will form them. Once dry and sandblasted the lintels are trucked to the site and craned into place. Masonry is added above the lintels to increase there strength in accordance with the structural drawings. The last step is to add the veneer to the wall, this wraps around the lintel to fully incorporate it into the architecture.
fabrication - concrete designs inc.
installation - 180 degrees
subcontractor - pioneer masonry
Burton Little
he touched our lives; and these projects
After 7 years as an integral team member of 180 degrees, Burt Little will be departing for new opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. In his tenure at 180 degrees Burt has collaborated with many local architects and has been instrumental in completing numerous residential, commercial, and public art projects. We wish Burt, Nicole and the twins all the best in their new endeavors.
Burt’s email: blittle@180degreesinc.com and his cell phone of 602.757.7727 will remain active until April 1, 2012.
