The GC for the Magic house, under construction, has introduced me to a new client!  We're working on the plan and it feels like a great collaboration.  Did I mention that in Palo Alto, there are fruit trees everywhere?  ;^)

Construction!

Well, demolition and excavation, anyway!  Click here for a Flickr show ;^)

Excavation Underway!

 I'm taking a sequence of time-lapse photos, one every day from a fixed station point, a tripod head mounted on a pole atop a fence.  I'll put those together on Flickr at some point, but in the mean time, here are a few random shots.  It's really exciting, and creating wonderful buzz around the Magic community, of course.  By the way, the previous Architect/Builder was let go, and a new Contractor hired.  I feel I lost friend in the process, but the new man, Dan Fulga, is quite decisive and competent.  I have taken on the full role of architect, now, and have redrawn and improved the drawings for the project, bringing them up to what I consider a standard of professionalism that was missing (some 180 hrs in May, so far.)  The work I've produced in this expanded role has been well received, which of course has pleased me (dazzling them with competence ;^)