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February 9th, 2010

hanrahan Meyers architects' See-Thru House design for Urban Reserve features a Green Roof click here to see more of See-Thru House at www.hanrahanmeyers.com: Victoria Meyers architect and Thomas Hanrahan architect: Contemporary Residential architecture

New York architects hanrahan Meyers (hMa) recently became a member and sponsor of Green Roofs for Healthy Cities. Green Roofs for Healthy Cities was founded in 1999 as a direct result of a research project on the benefits of green roofs and barriers to industry development entitled "Greenbacks from Green Roofs" prepared by Steven Peck, Monica Kuhn, Dr. Brad Bass and Chris Callaghan. Green Roofs for Healthy Cities – North America Inc. is now a rapidly growing not-for-profit industry association working to promote the industry throughout North America. Click here to read more about Green Roofs.

hMa's See-Thru House is a 3000 square foot green residence designed for the Urban Reserve development in Dallas, Texas. Urban Reserve is a new development with tight design standards, and a roster of selected architects hired by the Developer. hanarahanMeyers are one of two New York firms chosen as architects for the development.
Urban Reserve in the Wall Street Journal

June 16th, 2009

The following is from an article published
in the Wall Street Journal on 5/01/2009.

" Some residential suburban communities
insist on tiled roofs; others dictate color palettes and lot sizes. Often, the
goal is to capture the look of a time in the past, before modern living and
high housing costs changed tastes and materials.

But a small number of new developments is
taking the opposite tack. Here, buried amongst a middle-class community and
near the Central Expressway, is a street where the construction of Colonials
and Tudors is expressly forbidden. Even mid-century modern is considered passé.
"Make no mistake. It's a dictatorship and I make the rules," project
developer Diane Cheatham says half-jokingly.

The result is Urban Reserve, a 13-acre
development devoted to contemporary design. Pass a neighborhood of standard
issue brick tract ranches and turn onto Vanguard Way and suddenly one confronts
what looks like scene from a science fiction movie…." -written by Nancy Keates

Click here for the full article and slideshow at wsj.com

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left: Exterior of See-Thru House, hMa's design for the Urban Reserve
development. Above : Interior view, See-Thru House

Learn more about See-Thru House on hanrahanMeyers.com

Tag: see-thru house

Green Roof DesignGreen Home Design; American Houses; Green Roofs for Healthy Cities; See-thru House: hanrahan Meyers architects

Urban Reserve in the Wall Street Journal