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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Working with the City of Long Beach to Improve Processes
We’ve always worked really hard at M. Grisafe Architects to maintain great relationships with the cities in which we work, including Long Beach, Signal Hill, Orange, Irvine, and the surrounding cities. We are knowledgeable and mindful of building codes and regulations and always keep safety in mind when we design. This goes a long way […]
Treating Clients as Members of our Team Creates Inspiring Outcomes
At M. Grisafe Architects, it is our aim to be relational, not transactional, in the way we do business. What does that mean exactly? To us, that means we treat our clients as a member of our team, rather than just consumers. We love involving our clients throughout the design process. When clients are willing […]
Benefiting the Community and Connecting With the Right Clients
In my last blog post, I talked about developing a defined identity and a clear vision for our company in 2015. Since that last post, Businessing Magazine, a national online publication dedicated to small business owners and entrepreneurs, interviewed me for an article about the process of discovering and communicating your business identity, and the […]
Beauty in Architecture and in Giving, Mark Grisafe Receives Chai Volunteer Award from Long Beach AJCC
We are pleased to share some news that makes the whole M Grisafe architecture design team proud. Our owner, Mark Grisafe, recently received the Chai Award for outstanding voluntary service from the Alpert Jewish Community Center of Long Beach. Mark received the award on September 7th at the center’s annual community-wide meeting brunch, attended by […]
Increased Regulation Doesn’t Have to Mean Compromise on Design
You may have missed it, but on June 30th of this year city and county buildings around the state were abuzz with activity. Architects and engineers packed local building departments to submit projects on behalf of their clients before the July 1st code change. On that day the new energy code in the state of […]
Visualization Tools for Commercial and Residential Architecture Design
I have heard people talk about transformational experiences; The first time they got a laugh for telling a joke they knew that they wanted to be onstage as a comedian, or the first time they boarded an airplane they knew they wanted to be a pilot. Though not nearly as glamourous, one of my early […]