Cool New Conservatory Projects
We just returned from sunny Florida where we spent two days photographing a really cool conservatory that we built a year or so ago.
This was a very unusual project that featured a simulated cast stone façade using a material call GFRC (glass fiber reinforced concrete), a deeply stained mahogany interior and a copper shingled dome that was painted with a sky and cloud scene inside.
The design was quite unusual but turned out to be the perfect expression of our client’s vision and needs. This is a freestanding – almost Moorish looking conservatory, set in a sculpted garden park with a large Koi pond on one side and a manicured green on the other. Paths wind through the lush South Florida wood past sleeping lions and Greek gods and formal fountains abound. The conservatory is the dominant element in the whole scheme which is quite spectacular. I will have some images on our Flickr site soon and later on our website in the Our Portfolio section.
What is typical of this completely out-of-the-box project, is that it is just one of the many completely out-of-the-box conservatory designs that is typical for Tanglewood. Many are only “conservatories” in the loosest sense of the term, but they are all great architectural renditions of someone’s dreams, vision and lives.
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