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This newly completed tasting pavilion at Lovingston Winery near Charlottesville, Va elevates the humble structure of a barn to an elegant experience for all occasions. Large rolling barn doors provide flexible access to outdoor areas, a dual fireplace serves both the interior and an exterior seating area, and the exposed framework echoes the architecture of […]

The Farmhouse project, completed last year at Chickahominy Falls in Virginia, has been awarded Best Community Amenity for 2023 by the Home Builders Association of Virginia. The Farmhouse comprises three structures serving as the community centerpiece: a gathering house, a fitness center, and a pavilion, all surrounding the community pool. Chickahominy Falls is a unique

Green Energy Times, a leading newspaper for advancing green energy practices, has published an article by us on our permaculture project in Italy. Permaculture is an approach to land management and settlement design that adopts arrangements observed in flourishing natural ecosystems. It includes planning and management practices that consider the ecosystem as a whole when planning each

Imagine opening your door to a yard filled with wildflowers and teeming with butterflies and songbirds. Imagine yard maintenance transformed from the joyless tasks of mowing and pruning into a simpler, more rewarding role of nurturing and curation. Imagine creating a landscape design that isn’t just ornamental beauty, but becomes a back yard nature preserve

Chickahominy Falls, a planned community built around sustainable agriculture and farm-to-table lifestyle, has been awarded Best Community of the Year for 2020 by the Home Builders Association of Virginia. From Cornerstone Homes website: What started five years ago at Cornerstone Homes with an idea, plenty of research, inspiration and good old-fashioned hard work, reached back

The SILO Distillery, maker of farm-to-bottle distilled spirits and ciders in Vermont, has won the prestigious Good Food Award in the Vodkas category for 2020. From the Good Food Foundation’s website: The Good Food Foundation exists to celebrate, connect, empower and leverage the passionate and engaged, yet often overlooked, players in the food system who

Green Energy Times, a leading newspaper for advancing green energy practices, has published an article about our New England Modern Farmhouse. Our clients found a stunning property in Vermont with views of Camel’s Hump mountain and the Winooski river below. They worked with Geobarns to realize their vision of a fully modern home, using vintage

While many of these pictures are current projects and those which we hope to shortly start….quite a number are also winter wonderland shots over the years portraying the harrowing beauty of the cold season that nonetheless also mysteriously warms our hearts. I have always felt that when we work in winter we somehow mitigate its

It has been a very long time since the last post…partly a reflection of the intense travel schedule to CA, Europe, TX, VA, all over the Northeast and next week to Wisconsin….and this was all in the past month or so…. More important—some intense family blessings and heartache with two new grandchildren (Isidoro and Iris)

In the last few weeks we have transitioned from a smaller number of large, long term projects to a lot of new ones—and with no small sadness we are letting go and moving on… The longest and most complex being Hope Church—just west of Richmond, VA where many issues and setbacks beyond our control severely