A design-build practice for bespoke mountain estates, significant renovations, and boutique hospitality. Architecture, interiors, and construction — one studio, one voice.
Six to eight commissions a year. No more.
For twelve years we have designed and built a small number of exceptional places in the Roaring Fork Valley — never more than eight a year, and never one we didn’t believe in.
Red Mountain · Private Estate · 2024
LEED Gold Certified
The Ask
An 11,000-square-foot family estate that would disappear into the ridgeline — and hold LEED Gold without a single visible compromise.
The Result
Board-formed concrete and reclaimed cedar under a low copper roofline, set into an alpine meadow and heated almost entirely by ground-source loops. Certified LEED Gold.
Aspen Core · Boutique Hospitality · 2023
The Ask
Turn a tired 1890s mercantile block into a twenty-two-key hotel with the intimacy of a private residence — without losing more than one season.
The Result
The structure re-seated, the brick restored by hand, every key unique. Reopened eleven months later.
As featured in Timberline Quarterly, “The New Alpine Grand Tour”
Castle Creek Valley · Private Commission · 2025
The Ask
A gallery for a serious art collection that would still feel like a family home in ski socks.
The Result
A limestone spine organizes the house; museum-grade lighting and climate control disappear into plaster. The collection moved in before the furniture did.
Downtown Aspen · Restaurant · 2022
The Ask
Sixty-two seats that feel earned — a room regulars would defend like a secret.
The Result
Hand-troweled plaster, rift-oak banquettes, a hearth open to the room. Booked through the season within six weeks of opening.
West Buttermilk · Significant Renovation · 2021
The Ask
Rescue a 1972 residence by a noted Colorado modernist from four decades of well-meaning remodels.
The Result
Every addition removed, the original geometry restored — and a new cedar-screened wing the original architect’s estate wrote to praise.
Most projects of this scale pass between three companies — an architect, a builder, an interior designer — each guarding their own drawings. Ours pass between three studios that share a hallway. You have one point of contact from first sketch to final walkthrough, and one firm accountable for every promise.
Site-first design that answers to the land before it answers to a floor plan. Every commission begins with a season of listening — to the site, and to you.
Interior architecture begins at schematic design — not after drywall. Millwork, stone, light, and furniture are drawn into the bones of the house.
Our builders price the work as it is drawn — so the design you fall in love with is the design we build. No value-engineering surprises in month nine.
“They were the calmest part of a very ambitious build. One conversation a week, and every decision already thought through.”
“We interviewed firms from Denver to New York. Meridian was the only one that never made us choose between the architecture and the budget.”
“They understood that a twenty-two-room hotel lives or dies on details a guest never consciously notices.”
This is a conversation, not a form. A few lines about your project is enough — every inquiry is read and answered personally by one of our principals, usually within three days.
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