Congratulations to the Cablik team – we attended the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association awards banquet on Saturday night, and we won 2 OBIE awards!

Best Green Home: The Barksdale Residence

This new modern home in Atlanta achieved a plethora of green building certifications.  It is the first LEED-Silver home in the City of Atlanta, and also achieved Energy Star certification as well as Earthcraft certification.  The home is an excellent example of smart use of limited natural resources including energy and water.

Just a few of the home’s sustainable features include low-e windows, appropriately-sized HVAC systems, Icynene insulation, tankless hot water heaters, very high-efficiency bath fixtures, ventilation controls  per room, local, non-invasive landscaping, sustainable and renewable materials, and recycled construction waste.

The home went above and beyond typical “green” construction, by adding truly sustainable features including an underground cistern to collect rainwater for irrigation, plus an electric plug for a future electric car.  The home’s intown Atlanta location is very close to many employment,retail, and recreation opportunities, thus decreasing the need for automobile use.

Consistent with the LEED program, the homeowners were provided with a comprehensive owners manual, full of all product manuals and other information related to the sustainable features of their home.  This durable resource can be referenced and passed on to the next homeowners upon the home’s sale.

Best Green Renovation: The St. Louis Residence

This renovation began as a 1-story 1920′s home, and ended as a two-story Earthcraft-renovated home with a finished attic that is used as a new master suite.  The home originally featured single-pane windows and insufficient loose fill insulation in the attic floor.  The home’s heating and cooling systems were insufficient to meet the demand created by the house.  Large amounts of air leakage were identified from various places in the home.

Cablik performed an Earthcraft renovation which addressed these issues, with strategies including reinsulating HVAC ducts, insulating water pipes, performing proper air sealing, using low-VOC paints, stains, and finishes, and recycling construction waste.

This home is an excellent example of how a homeowner can adapt their current home to better fit their needs, while also incorporating sustainability practices into the buildout.  Sustainability can be achieved even if the original home may not have been built to meet a sustainability program’s criteria.  As a result of the sustainable renovation, the homeowners will save significantly on their HVAC bills, and they will have a healthier lifestyle.

Here are a few photos showing the framing process for the home.  Stay tuned for more photos as the construction progresses!

Picasso to Warhol will present approximately 100 works of art created by 14 of the most iconic artists from the 20th century: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Léger, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio De Chirico, Joan Miró, Romare Bearden, Alexander Calder, Jackson Pollock, Louise Bourgeois, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. The exhibition will be one of the largest concentrations of modern art masterpieces to ever be exhibited in the southeastern United States.

The achievements of these pioneers of modern art will be presented in depth, exploring each artist’s stylistic development and highlighting their role in the most important artistic developments of the twentieth century, including the invention of Cubism, the emergence of abstraction and the development of Surrealism.

Highlights of the exhibition include: Henri Matisse’s Dance (I), 1909; Pablo Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror, 1932, and Night Fishing at Antibes, 1939; Jasper Johns’s Map, 1961; Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait, 1966; Constantin Brancusi’s Bird in Space, 1928; and Jackson Pollock’s, Number 1A, 1948.

The exhibit runs now through April 29, 2012.

Cablik Enterprises will be building a new modern home in Midtown Atlanta, starting later this year, which is available for sale.

If you are interested in a new modern home in Midtown, this is your chance!

The home will be located at 850 Vedado Way in Atlanta, in Midtown’s established residential area.   Walk to Piedmont Park, restaurants, retail, and other Midtown amenities!

The home is planned to have 3 bedroom, 3.5 baths, approximately 2,800 square feet, and customization is available.

For more information, contact Ryan Howard, 404-627-1645, extension 2307.

Please join us for another successful evening of networking amongst Atlanta’s core green community.  All are welcome!

Where:    The Wrecking Bar, 292 Moreland Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA  30307

When:       Wednesday, October 12th, 6- 9 PM

Why:         For great networking opportunities, plus cash bar!

This Event will be upstair in the Event Space “The Marianna”.
The Wrecking Bar Brewpub is located in the basement of this historic structure that was neglected and vandalized over the last five years. The restoration of this building included restoring the original stained glass transoms, reusing the bricks from the coal room in the basement, and repainting the exterior the original colors of the house. Much of this newly renovated space has maintained the historic values of the building and has reused much of the salvaged materials.

We hope to see you on the 12th!

Please join us for another successful evening of networking amongst Atlanta’s core green community.  All are welcome!

Where:     Cablik Enterprises’ office

675 Edgewood Avenue, Atlanta, GA  30307

(Near the intersection of Edgewood & Krog, just south of Rathbun’s.  Free street parking is available.)

When:       Wednesday, September 14th, 6- 9 PM

Why:         For great networking opportunities, plus drinks, complimentary smoothie samples, light appetizers, door prizes, and rooftop deck views of the downtown skyline!

Information will also be available about phase II of Skyline at Edgewood – 4 modern Atlanta townhomes in the low $300′s, available in Spring 2012.

We hope to see you on the 14th!

Modern home lovers – you are going to love this link, showcasing the best in modern and contemporary pools across the country.

As we are building several new modern homes in Atlanta that have similar pools and water features, we love to see how these gorgeous pools compliment modern homes.

I’m ready to take a dip!

The steel at Argonne is actually 3 separate steel structures that will be connected by wood to form the house.  The house has two very large cantilevers, and one of them has floor-to-ceiling curtain wall glass.  The design is really starting to take shape and it is going to be an incredible house!

As part of the High’s ongoing collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, Modern by Design presents groundbreaking designs of the past, present, and future. The exhibition features a selection of works chronicling three key moments in MoMA’s design collection and exhibition history—“Machine Art” (1934); “Good Design” (1950-1955); and “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” (1972). Nearly 150 objects created by over 120 of the most influential artists and designers of the twentieth century are included.

Also on view are a group of late-twentieth- and early-twenty-first–century designs drawn from the High’s own growing permanent collection. Two new major commissioned installations by Dutch designer Joris Laarman and the Japanese design collective nendo are featured: Laarman’s “Digital Matter” and nendo’s “Visible Structures.” In total, eleven artists represent the diversity and international character of the field today.

Featured artists and designers include Ron Arad, FRONT Design, Johanna Grawunder, Zaha Hadid, Hella Jongerius, Patrick Jouin, Shiro Kuramata, Joris Laarman, nendo, Marc Newson, and
Ettore Sottsass Jr.

You need to find the right architect, the right builder, the right design, and make sure the design can work on your property.

See this real-life example of how Cablik Consulting can help you to get exactly what you want:

A potential client met with Cablik Enterprises and expressed interest in building a new modern home.  We entered into a small per-hour consulting agreement of approximately $2,000 to help them orchestrate the components for their new modern home, including the lot, the architecture, and the construction.  Part of this agreement included assistance to identify an appropriate intown lot which was suitable for their lifestyle and commuting patterns.  After the clients closed on the lot, we moved forward with the design component.

We solicited qualifications from our network of modern architects in the Atlanta area.  The client chose 3 to move forward, and gave these architects each $2,000 to create a modern home concept that would work on their lot.  The architects were given the lot’s address, a list of the clients’ general program and design style, and the client’s approximate construction budget.  The architects took a few weeks to create their concepts, and presented them to our client.   The competition aspect of this process really brought out some fantastic design concepts!  Ultimately the client picked the one which they liked the best.  Cablik Enterprises provided a detailed construction estimate for the winning design, which came in very close to the client’s budget.

This process allowed the client to ensure that they got the best design, on a lot that met their needs, and gave them the security that they can build their new modern home within their construction budget, all for a small up-front investment of $8,000.  The best part is that they know all the components will work together, without signing any large contracts.  This client has since gone on to proceed with construction of their new modern home with Cablik Enterprises as their builder.  We are pleased to present this option as a way to help simplify the process of designing and building a new modern home.

Contact us for more information about the Cablik Consulting process, we are happy to help!