How One Mexican Dish Gave Me New Insight Into a Potential Architecture Client
“What do you want for lunch?” he asked as we entered the bar of his restaurant. Seems like a simple question, but when the person asking is the president of a successful restaurant chain, it is more complicated. I was meeting with him to discuss working on an expansion to his popular chain of local […]
Mark Grisafe Begins Teaching Interior Design at Mount San Antonio College
I (M. Grisafe Architects owner Mark Grisafe) was recently asked to teach a course at Mount San Antonio College, a junior college located about 50 miles from our Long Beach architecture firm. The course is Introduction to Interior Design, and it meets two nights a week during the fall quarter. So far, it’s been a […]
Boutique Long Beach Architecture Firm Receives Prestigious Award
We are excited to announce that the M. Grisafe Architects blog (the one you are reading right now) has been named a 2015 MarCom Gold Winner! The MarCom Awards is a well-respected and prestigious creative competition for the marketing and communication industry. They award companies, large and small, for excellence in categories like print and […]
Helping Long Beach Homeowners After Disaster Strikes
On June 29th, 2015, some children in a Long Beach neighborhood decided to get an early start on their Independence Day celebration by shooting off some fireworks into the sky. One of these fireworks landed on the roof of a nearby neighborhood’s home—a home that was built at a time when wood shingle roofs were […]
M. Grisafe Architects Team Growing and Embracing New Technology
We’d like to publicly welcome Rachel Fuller to the team at M. Grisafe Architects (read the official press release). Rachel is a recent graduate of Mt. San Antonio College’s interior design program, earning two Associates of Science degrees, one in Interior Design and the other in Interior Design Kitchen and Bath. Mt. San Antonio’s interior […]
Interview with Mark Grisafe Featured on Businessing Magazine
I was recently contacted by Businessing Magazine, an online publication dedicated to small business ownership, about a feature in a new series of articles they have launched called “5 Questions With.” As the name implies, “5 Questions With” asks the same five questions of multiple small business owners in various fields to get their insights […]
Complex Tenant Improvement in Long Beach Completed with Rewarding Results
It’s always very rewarding when we get to be involved in projects that benefit the community in a positive way. Several months ago, we featured the opening of Suite Beauty Salon in the city of Orange that we had just completed. This well-crafted salon is unique in that it gives stylists an opportunity to try […]
New Building Technology and Solar Panels, From an Architect’s Perspective
Update: This blog post was featured on the Solar Panel World website in an article titled, “What Do Architects Think About Solar Panels?” During the late 1990s, when I was just beginning my career in the field of architecture, I worked on an information counter for a local airport. As part of this project, the counter […]
Partnering with Modmacro on “Kill the Noise” Book Project
We are excited to announce our partnership in a new project with small business owner Matt Smith of Modmacro, Inc. Matt is in the process of writing and publishing his latest book titled Kill the Noise and M. Grisafe Architects is one of three small business sponsors of the book. The book is being published […]
M. Grisafe Architect Presents Case Study to City of Long Beach
In our last blog post, we talked about how we were going to be presenting a case study to the City of Long Beach about the process of obtaining permits and dealing with various departments within the City. (Read the press release). As we previously indicated, our design and construction team happened to be working […]