Razor’s Edge — a contemporary masterpiece situated on a lot previously inhabited by a blighted ranch home — utilized razor-like folding forms in its design to frame view corridors and protect its occupants and outdoor living spaces from the intense desert sun. The site was ripe for a fresh start with an overgrown landscape [...]
Drewett Works project Now and Zen was featured in the July/August 2021 issue of Luxe Interiors + Design. Thank you to Luxe for featuring this project, writer Christine Deorio for the well-crafted article, and photographer Dino Tonn for his great eye and ability to bring architecture to a new level. Enjoy! [...]
Drewett Works project Urban Modern was featured in Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine Magazine. Thank you to Phoenix Home & Garden for Phoenix Home & Garden Features DW the project, writer Nora Burba Trulsson for the beautiful article and photographer Mark Boisclair who brings the architecture to life on the page. Enjoy! [...]
Drewett Works project Upward Bound was featured in the August/September 2021 issue of Phoenix Home & Garden Magazine. Thank you to Phoenix Home and Garden for featuring the project, and to writer Nora Burba Trulsson for the beautiful article, and photographer Austin Baker who brings architecture to life. Enjoy! [...]
Upward Bound, a sleek 11-story condo designed to showcase a modern art collection, is a study in functionality and minimalism yet nuanced by refined details and contemporary elements. This high-rise condo offered the perfect opportunity for a couple wanting to downsize as well as parlay their love of art into a gallery-like setting to create [...]
Now and Zen -- a renovation that gave new life to a stucco McMansion -- is a modernist, zen-like family retreat firmly founded in a timeless, refined palette of natural materials including limestone walls and floors and hemlock ceilings. Now and Zen afforded a second life to a stucco McMansion as it was transformed [...]
The Model Home at The Village at Seven Desert Mountain is 10,000 square feet of a modernist dream world for golfers and lovers of the luxury golf lifestyle. Designed to set the tone for a [...]
Urban Modern is defined by dramatic cantilevered roof forms supported by multidimensional basalt-clad structures and pocketing walls of glass that frame the dramatic view of iconic Camelback Mountain. This speculative award-winning infill community on the site of the former Kachina Day School is comprised of four modernist homes that offer spectacular views of nearby [...]
Ryan Dooley, RA, LEED AP – Architect/Project Designer Born in Minnesota, raised in St. Louis and schooled in Chicago, this Midwest native found himself in Arizona in early 2017 when a temporary job brought him to the desert Southwest. A year later, this talented architect called Scottsdale his home. Ryan studied as an undergrad [...]
Architectural firm Drewett Works received top honors at the 2021 Gold Nugget Awards presentation on June 16, collecting two Grand Awards and six Merit Awards. The annual competition rewards architectural design and planning excellence and draws entries from throughout the U.S. and internationally. This year, a panel of industry experts reviewed more than 600 entries. [...]