Arch.itect.us

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Mechanical “nodding donkeys” have been grazing the surface of uninhabited oil fields for many decades but in urban settings they can look, well, crude. Making these horsehead pumps look presentable often involves local folk art projects that produce unique and even surprising results. Pimp my pump jack? You know the drill.

Raye Street House is momentarily the name of the imposing house you see in the pictures below. But its construction came with a giant challenge. Ryan Rhodes Designs and Jason Rhodes (Attorney/Principal – JMR Law Group) were the ones to notice the land’s potential and made it so that the home took [...]