This week we had the exciting opportunity to use a drone to help make design decisions about one of our projects. Dan Upton and Matt Metcalfe of Dan Upton Construction brought out the drone to help us determine the height at which a roof deck would provide the best ocean and mountain views for a new guest cabana in the hills above Santa Barbara.

Mountain Drive Cabana has won the 2016 Santa Barbara Contractor’s Association award in the New Residential category. The project was designed by Bildsten Architecture and Planning and built by general contractor Dylan Davidson of Creative Structural Design.

The annual housing conference held on May 13, 2016 discussed our record-setting low vacancy rates along with continued escalating rental prices in Santa Barbara County. The keynote speaker Dan Parolek emphasized the importance of providing more affordable community-based living as well as efforts to create higher density housing of the local workforce.

On Saturday October 3rd, local architects and guest gathered together to tour nine homes and businesses, which featured an intriguing personal and construction story that profile many of the design challenges encountered during the building process.

On Friday, April 10, leaders and community members came together at the Coastal Housing Coalition’s Santa Barbara Housing Conference to discuss the significant issues affecting workers county-wide. The South Coast has become a difficult place for many citizens to both live and work in…

Join us this Saturday, April 18, 2015 for the LA Urban Bus Tour organized by AIA Santa Barbara. The bus leaves from Goleta at 8am and will return around 6pm. Registration is $35, click here to register.