What Makes a Tiny Home Livable? One Family Found Out.
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A Seattle family trades the bustle of city life for the peace and quiet of a tiny house of Orcas Island.
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PSBJ: An Evolution of Home & Office Design Through the Pandemic
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Ray Johnston was featured in a career and workplace article, All The Comforts of Home in the Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ), focusing on the fate of traditional office spaces post-pandemic.
Read MoreWhat Women Need Business Leaders to Know Right Now
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While much has been written about the outsized impact the Coronavirus pandemic has had on the employment of women and working mothers, it’s a crisis that’s been happening on our watch since women entered the workforce.
Read More30 Years of Designing for Seattle’s Everchanging Landscape
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From its very inception, Johnston Architects’ approach to influencing the local landscape was ahead of its time.
Read MoreIn the DJC: JA Using Gaming Tech to Enhance Design Process
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JA expects to soon roll out its Parametric Casita, which makes it easier for property owners to create detached accessory dwelling units (DADUs), in single-family zones in Seattle. A client inputs their address and is presented with the developable area on their lot. They create their own layout option, hit submit and a simplified structural model, bill of materials and rough construction costs are generated. If they want to build, JA will develop construction documents from Revit models that have been premade.
Read MoreBase Camp Featured in Puget Sound Business Journal
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“Their vision went from drawing board to reality in 2013, collaborating with renowned Seattle architect Ray Johnston of Johnston Architects. The result was an award-winning, unique, energy-efficient, eco-conscious, high-tech mountain getaway.”
Read MoreDXU Project Receives Green Hammer Award!
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Johnston Architects and the rest of the DXU team are honored to be recognized with this Green Hammer award for this multi-family project. Our collaborative team set sustainability goals for DXU from the very beginning of the project, and these allowed the development to achieve Four Star Built Green certification.
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A Gap in the Housing Cycle by Ray Johnston
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This editorial examines the need for more diverse housing options in the region, specifically rentals for individuals and families wanting to make places like Winthrop or Twisp their permanent homes, but who aren't in a position to buy a residence.
Read MoreJA Project Featured in Methow Home Magazine→
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When it came to buying land and building a place in the Methow Valley, Heidi Durham and Leslie Garrard had their parameters firmly in place.
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