An Artist Among Us: The Art + Paintings of Camille Erickson

Without doubt, the Sparano + Mooney Architecture team are talented, driven, and creative. We work hard to deliver thoughtful design solutions to our clients, not to mention our commitment to an exceptional client experience and harnessing first-rate business acumen. Of course, our Salt Lake City and Los Angeles architects are highly skilled at turning numerous iterations of ideas and sketches into renders and plans. Putting pen, pencil and brush to paper is a key aspect of our practice and drawing skills are essential to the profession. But did you know that our team member Camille Erickson, head of Accounting and Human Resources, also produces beautiful paintings and is an enormously talented artist in her own right? We are astounded by Camille’s talent, and her ability to use both her left and right brain with equal flourish. We interviewed her to discover more about her work.

SMAMay 15, 2018Art, Architecture, Drawing, Sketching, Painting, Salt Lake City Art, Utah Artists, Salt Lake City Design, Foundational Principles, Architects + Creatives

Announcing Design Week 2017 and a Sparano + Mooney Architecture Exhibition!

Now in its seventh year, the 2017 edition of Design Week is opening from October 16th-21st and we can’t wait to take part in this city-wide cultural showcase! As Salt Lake City architects deeply committed to producing, experiencing and inspiring great design, we are excited to check out the creative smorgasbord that this artistic city has to offer during what is sure to be a stellar event. And, we hope to welcome you to our studio on Monday, October 16th from 5:00-6:30pm, for an exhibition of work by University of Utah School of Architecture students, taught by our own Anne Mooney!

SMAOctober 12, 2017Utah Architecture, Utah Design, Salt Lake City Architecture, Salt Lake City Design, Design Arts Utah, Salt Lake Architects, Contemporary Architecture, Contemporary Design, Exhibitions, Events, Installations, Urban Design, University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning, Religious Architecture, Sacred Space

Design Arts '17 Exhibition at the Rio Gallery

Do you love arts, culture, design and architecture? Why not visit the Rio Gallery in downtown Salt Lake City, where our award-winning LOOP Bench is on display as part of the Design Arts '17 exhibition?

The Design Arts platform is an annual review dedicated to the promotion of excellence in the diverse fields of design in Utah. They strive to help community members see, experience, utilize and value the art of design that surrounds us.

SMASeptember 18, 2017Design, Furniture, Bench Design, Concrete Bench, Furniture Design Award, Los Angeles Architecture, Los Angeles Design, Los Angeles Culture, Arts + Culture, Salt Lake City Architecture, Salt Lake City Design, Exhibitions, Los Angeles Architects, Salt Lake City Architects, Art Installations, Contemporary Design, Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design

Loop Bench

For Sparano + Mooney Architecture, great design at all scales is at the heart of our practice. We are urban architects based in Los Angeles and Salt Lake City. As you may know we are engaged in developing architecture, urban designs and products and deliver these thoughtful, innovative and contemporary designs to accommodate our client’s vision and lifestyle. Yes, we design large-scale buildings – museums, performing arts centers, recreation and aquatic centers, mountain-modern residences, and centers of worship – but we also apply our creativity to smaller scale manifestations of our architectural mindset and are eager to continue developing this facet of our practice. This is why we were thrilled when a client contacted us about our design competition winner, the Loop Bench, and commissioned us to produce one as a memorial for installation in a specially-selected spot along the beach strand in the City of Manhattan Beach, California.

SMAAugust 7, 2017Design, Furniture, Bench Design, Concrete Bench, Furniture Design Award, Los Angeles Architecture, Los Angeles Design, Los Angeles Culture, Arts + Culture, Salt Lake City Architecture, Salt Lake City Design, Exhibitions, Los Angeles Architects, Salt Lake City Architects, Art Installations, Contemporary Design, Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design

Uncommon Modern (Architecture)

Does the thought of mid-century modern architecture put some pep in your step? Do you long to surround yourself with glass and concrete assembled when the Rat Pack were roaming, or perhaps come home to an architect John Sugden-designed space each night? If so, you might want to check out Uncommon Modern Salt Lake! This event will celebrate mid-century modern architecture (buildings constructed between ca. 1945-1970) and kick off an inventory of period buildings in Salt Lake City. Stop by cityhomeCOLLECTIVE at 645 E South Temple tomorrow, February 9th from 7pm, to take part in this important project.

SMAFebruary 8, 2017Salt Lake City Architecture, Salt Lake City Design, Salt Lake City Arts + Culture, Salt Lake City Architects, Modern Architecture, Mid-Century Modern Architecture, Modernism, Salt Lake Architects, Salt Lake City History, Exhibitions, Architecture, American Institute of Architects, University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning, Preservation Utah

Exhibition Highlight: Imagining UMOCA

We are pleased to announce the opening of an exciting new exhibition titled Imagining UMOCA, which will be on display at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art from January 24 - April 15, 2017.

Led by our own Anne Mooney in the Senior Design Studio course at the University of Utah's School of Architecture, students imagined possibilities for expanding the museum to serve its diverse and growing audience. They began by researching contemporary artists, and then developed their analyses into 3-dimensional designs for one of three downtown sites, attempting to capture the essence of the artist they selected in their proposals. These final concepts by six students will be exhibited in the museum's Ed Space Gallery. The concepts meet UMOCA's programmatic and functional requirements, while also creating a spatial experience that unfolds gradually for the visitor and engages both body and mind.

SMAJanuary 23, 2017Exhibitions, Utah Architecture, Utah Design, Salt Lake City Architecture, Salt Lake City Design, Museum Design, Salt Lake City Architects, Salt Lake City Arts + Culture, Architects Utah, Architects Salt Lake, Contemporary Architecture, Contemporary Design, Museum of Contempoary Art, University of Utah, University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning, Sparano + Mooney Architecture team, Teaching

Bringing Art to the Shopping Cart with Big Cartel

At Sparano + Mooney Architecture, we care deeply about our unique clients and strive to deliver thoughtful, innovative design solutions for each client’s vision for their architecture and interiors. Our clients are our inspiration, our bread and butter and our driving force. We love what we do and do what we love, and are eternally grateful to be able to work with people and companies that help us cultivate the culture of excellence that defines our firm! Which is why we are so excited to write about Big Cartel, a company that not only shares our core values, but a fantastic architectural client – we are designing their company headquarters in Utah - and an incredibly cool webstore business provider dedicated to assisting creatives in reaching their potential.

SMAOctober 31, 2016Utah Design, Salt Lake City Design, Salt Lake City Arts + Culture, Clients, Contemporary Design, Urban Design, arts + culture, Underground Art, Underground Design, E-Commerce, Architects Salt Lake, Business

It's Here and It's Happening! Design Week, October 17-22

That’s right – Salt Lake Design Week is officially underway, and we are beyond excited to be a part of this city-wide cultural extravaganza! As Salt Lake City architects deeply committed to producing and inspiring great design, we can’t wait to sample the artistic cornucopia that this creative-minded city has to offer this week. So get ready to sharpen your creative edge and join us for what is shaping up to be a stellar event…

SMAOctober 20, 2016Utah Architecture, Utah Design, Salt Lake City Architecture, Salt Lake City Design, Design Arts Utah, Architects Salt Lake, Contemporary Architecture, Contemporary Design, Exhibitions, Salt Lake Architects

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