“This house is very livable and very functional,” Hebert says. It also achieves a warmth some people don’t think you get with a more modern living space. Hebert recoils at the word contemporary thanks to images of the Jetsons and round, plastic pieces. This version of new design has a welcoming air about it.
Lafayette’s business leaders may favor traditional architecture for their homes, but that’s not the statement they want their offices to make.
WHLC Architecture offered a solution with a plan to take the hospital’s front parking lot and then expand the emergency department by constructing a new surgery platform designed to extend vertically in front of the building and connect to the...
The children’s store gets all grown up with conceptual design and an execution that’s equal parts whimsy and art. Four Southern Girls in Eunice is home to special occasion children’s clothing along with a pampered mom and pampered pet section — all designed by Charles Seale of Charles Seale Designs.
INDesign 2015: And the winners are ...
Eleven of the best commercial projects from throughout Acadiana earned a 2015 INDesign Award.
Lafayette has been given the planning capacity to design a great Connector. The question is whether the resources will be there to finish the job.
Exploring Process and Progress for the I-49 Connector
The April 6 INDesign Awards Luncheon features a panel of key players as new ways to design the highway emerge.
Between a ROD and a Hard Place
Clinging ever harder to the I-49 Connector’s Record of Decision, DOTD finds itself jeopardizing its project.
“Our design process is a collaborative one between myself and the client that starts before the first appointment,” Scurlock explains. “It is my job to create a look that they think is beautiful.”.
DOTD spooked Connector supporters by doing the one thing they set out to avoid: The right thing.
INDesign Awards: Of Time and Place
Back in 2005, after realizing that the Acadiana region lacked significant recognition of the talented work of local architects, home designers and interior designers and decorators, The Independent launched The INDesign Awards.
INDesign Awards: In Perfect Form
Two projects representing the all-important and fast-growing tech sector in Lafayette — one for architecture the other for interior design — a renovated city hall in Jennings, and last, but certainly not least, a gateway sign at the intersection of Jefferson and Cypress streets that will welcome scores of people to Downtown Lafayette for decades to come: This year’s Gold INDesign winners are as diverse a group as we have ever presented since launching the awards in 2005.