You have decided on Park City, Utah as the location for your vacation home. Wise choice. Now you actually have to enlist a team to design, realize and build it. How do you do that? The process is more complex than we could ever describe in a single blog post. Yet we can still offer help with this guide.
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Working with an architect to design and build your dream home could represent one of the most important decisions you will ever make affecting your quality of life and enjoyment of your space. As such, who you choose to design your dream home matters. We encourage you to take the necessary time to reflect on your values and your vision as you carefully select the right architect for your Park City home. While doing this consider the value in getting things right during the all important design process and finding the right partner to help every step of the way. We hope you find Sparano + Mooney Architecture is worthy of your consideration.
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Sparano + Mooney Architecture is pleased to announce that our Principal Architect and Co-Founder, Anne Mooney is one of this year’s recipients of the Mountain Living Magazine’s Top Female Architects!
Anne was educated in architecture at Columbia University in New York, and at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) where she studied in Switzerland and Los Angeles. Anne has achieved professional distinctions as an architectural practitioner, professor and design critic, and her award-winning designs have been featured in publications and exhibitions in the United States, Canada, China, England, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Germany and Japan.
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One of Sparano + Mooney Architecture’s favorite international architectural publications, The Plan based out of Bologna, Italy did an in-depth feature of our studio’s design process in their most recent edition published this week. Written by architecture and design critic, Michael Webb (Architect’s Houses, Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering, and many others), the article titled “Interpreting the Context to Create Striking Architecture” explores the studio’s interest in design, process, site-specificity, and the unique context of the American West.
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At the very start of this year, only a mere three months ago, we don’t think there could have been any way to anticipate just how drastically things have changed globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As our staff have begun working remotely we have encountered some challenges, but also opportunities to rethink how we work as individuals and as a team.
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We were delighted to start the New Year (and decade!) with one of our favorite projects, St. Joseph the Worker Church in West Jordan being named one of the Ten Best Buildings in the State of Utah by local architect David Sheer in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Read MoreDesign Inspiration: For Forest “The Unending Attraction of Nature”
The drawing depicts a common modern scenario, a vast urban stadium – architecture densely packed with spectators. But instead of an athletic event, the stadium looks onto a grove of trees, planted in the center of the field. The wooded area is a direct juxtaposition to the teaming skyline behind it, visible just above the rim of the stadium. Skyscrapers, cranes, and billowing smoke render the cityscape as a dynamic engine of growth and development. By contrast, the forest is still, even contemplative.
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Ephemeral and enchanting, the Northern Lights have fascinated and haunted human beings with their spectral presence for millennia. But only over the past decade has there been a distinct surge in international tourism to the remote and icy locals above the Arctic Circle where the Aurora Borealis can best be viewed and photographed. The recently opened Aurora Villa, a boutique hotel designed by Sparano + Mooney Architecture was created with the specific intention of viewing the Borealis within the comfort and coziness of the lodge.
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