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Founded in 1997, Praxis3 is an innovative, Atlanta-based architectural and design firm whose mission is to foster design excellence while providing client-driven solutions. Deploying the talents of multi-disciplinary studio teams, Praxis3 tackles each project as an exploration of ideas in the creative process, producing unique, site-specific designs for even the most challenging building sites and programs.

The firm specializes in mixed use, automotive and specialty retail, residential, and cultural-institutional project designs throughout the United States. Praxis3’s comprehensive approach to designing and building projects includes extensive research, in which its designers engage in hands-on sessions, asking tough questions and listening carefully to client input. Ultimately, the Praxis3 process ensures that projects will meet client’s creative and financial goals.

With its experienced team of professionals in architecture, urban design and planning, as well as web design and graphics, Praxis3 is a leader in navigating the personal, technical, and political dynamics that designing, building and marketing complex urban and campus projects demand. The firm’s state of the art technologies include the Revit Building Information Modeling CADD Software (BIM) and the in-house developed Tangentworks project management system.

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552 HardendorfUndisclosed ClientAtlanta, GA

Architects/ Collaborators:Stuart Romm, Frederick Pearsall,

Harris Dimitropoulos, Craig James Brian Tanner, Bill Davis

Brian Ahern, Jerry Goux

Client:Undisclosed

This private residence was built in a single-family Atlanta neighborhood. The house is

designed around a central projection scrim/solar clock. This metal fabric wall is also used to

separate public and private parts of the house and to set up an axis of entry from both the

front and rear sides of the structure.


552 HardendorfUndisclosed ClientAtlanta, GA

Architects/ Collaborators:Stuart Romm, Frederick Pearsall,

Harris Dimitropoulos, Craig James Brian Tanner, Bill Davis

Brian Ahern, Jerry Goux

Client:Undisclosed

This private residence was built in a single-family Atlanta neighborhood. The house is designed

around a central projection scrim/solar clock. This metal fabric wall is also used to separate

public and private parts of the house and to set up an axis of entry from both the front and

rear sides of the structure.


2500 Peachtree Street PenthouseUndisclosed ClientAtlanta, GA

This contemporary private residence was executed in a traditional Buckhead condominium

tower. The design included a complete range of services from schematic and construction

documentation to detailed millwork design and construction supervision. Materials used

include sand-blasted glass, stainless steel and mahogany.

Architect:praxis3

Designers:Bill Davis,

Stuart Romm,

Interior Design:Vantosh+Associates

Client:Undisclosed


VanTosh LakehouseJill VanToshLake Burton, GA

This second home for Atlanta designer Jill VanTosh is a mountain cabin on the shores of Lake

Burton, Georgia. The house is conceptualized as a modern take on the typical rustic cabins

common in the area. Views to the lush natural surroundings are framed through numerous

large windows, making the relatively small 2,500 square foot house seem much larger.

Architect:praxis3,

romm + pearsall

Designers:Fred Pearsall,

Stuart Romm, Craig James

Interior Design:Vantosh+Associates

Client:Jill VanTosh


Morningside ParkAtlanta, GA

Morningside Park is a response to the increasingly common challenge of placing denser

housing on tight urban infill sites. In addition, this location is bounded by an unsightly

commercial strip on one side and a major expressway on another, which necessitates

that the project create its own sense of calm retreat. This was achieved by organizing the

complex of 172 residential units around a series of three garden courtyards. The build-

ings are arranged so that each court is defined formally by paired 3-story elevations. The

apartments are divided into 40 studio units, 86 one-bedroom units, and 46 two-bedroom

units.

Architects:Romm+Pearsall

Client:Intersouth Properties


The Telephone Factory LoftsIndustrial Conversion Ent.Atlanta, GA

This project received the 1996 Atlanta Preservation Center Historic Home Award for "the

adaptive use of historic commercial buildings for residential purposes." Occupying a

prominent site across from The Carter Presidential Library, the successful rehabilitation of

this structure was a critical element within the Old Fourth Ward's Olympic-impact revital-

ization plan. Atlanta's first loft development which encompasses an affordable housing

component, the sixty-three mixed-income apartments of 820 Ralph McGill became a

landmark in both their physical and social incarnations. The Atlanta Preservation Center

1996 award cited the project for its attention to historic detail, preservation of architec-

tural integrity, and use of sympathetic materials.

Architects:Romm+Pearsall

Brock/Green Architects

Client:Industrial Conversion Ent.

Atlanta Urban Design Commission Award of Excellence, May 1997


Pryor Street HousesMetropolitan Atlanta Olympic Games Authority (MAOGA)Atlanta, GA

This project highlights an example of the grass-roots community building movement

taking place in Atlanta through the orchestration of the project, the generous resources

of corporations, non-profit organizations, the City, and volunteers have been coordinated

in the building of a new community of single-family homes near the Olympic Stadium.

Each home contributes to an emerging, but already strong neighborhood; one that has

maintained its sense of history. At the same time, each house has been crafted to express

the individual qualities of home that are important to the family living within.

Architects:Romm + Pearsall

Stuart Romm, Frederick Pearsall,Harris Dimitropoulos, Lisa Quatrale

Planning:Bishop Planning Consultants

Client:Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership,

Metro Atlanta Olympic Games Authority

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