20 Years of Community Involvement: How Our Architecture Firm Is Working to Make Long Beach a Better Place to Live and Work
As our Long Beach architecture firm celebrates 20 years in business, we’ve been taking some time to reflect on how we grew into the company that we are today. Certainly, there are a lot of business decisions that have impacted who we are and how we operate, but there are other factors as well. One […]
Our Long Beach Architect Website Wins Multiple International Design Awards
Late last year, our Long Beach architecture firm launched a new, updated website. We are very pleased with how it turned out and believe it’s a great reflection of our work and our company’s values. We also love the way it looks and the way the information it contains is organized. Apparently, we aren’t the […]
Long Beach Architect Mark Grisafe Honored by Local Charity
Mark Grisafe, Owner of M. Grisafe Architects was recently given a special honor from a local nonprofit organization, the Alpert Jewish Community Center (AJCC) in Long Beach. Mark and M. Grisafe Architects have a long-standing relationship with the organization; in fact, Mark was previously awarded the Chai Volunteer Award back in 2014.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]