Architecture

Restaurant Design | The Design Process

The restaurant concept should be identified early on tandem to the vision for the culinary menu – Menu and Concept should be paired. This will reinforce the direction and decisions for the program and design.

Restaurant Design | Commercial Kitchen Considerations

The bigger the establishment equates to a more complex project with additional issues. Regardless of the scale of an eating place, all restaurants share common components that must be planned and carefully organized.

Facility Planning Experience is Universal

ArcWest is proficient in numerous project types: Office, Manufacturing, Warehouse, and Information Technologies. The key is not the built project type, but the depth of project planning experience, such as feasibility studies, masterplanning, building design, space planning, engineering coordination, process integration, equipment coordination, programming, project management, etc.

ArcWest Architects | SBE Certification

ArcWest Architects became certified as an Small Business Enterprise (SBE) approved business with the City and County of Denver (Denvergov) on July 29th of this year.   It was cause for an out loud “Hooray!”  The ArcWest partners labored for a month through the numerous forms that were required to be completed, signed and notarized.  Along … Continued

Kind Letter from a Recent Client

One of the best moments during the course of a project is to receive some acknowledgment near the end of the process that the work was completed to the satisfaction of your client, and it was a job well done. We recently experienced that moment as we just received a kind letter from our past … Continued

Architectural Curb Appeal

ArcWest Architects can help with creative design, economical solutions and conceptual feasibility studies for maximum commercial effect. To get a better understanding of what is possible and the approach our recent clients have taken, please visit our web site.

‘The Hole’ | Opens for Business

ArcWest Architects is excited to announce The “Hole” Bakery and Restaurant on Tennyson Street is finally open for business. It’s that bitter sweet time in which we are thrilled to see the completion of a commercial project we have been working on for so long.

Building Permit | Commercial or Residential

Building permits are required for new construction to insure the proposed building project will be safe and built to industry standards. Completing a building project that is not permitted and inspected by the local regulatory agencies can set you up for problems down the road.

Focus on Core Process | ArcWest Mentoring Experience

Mentoring a high school student as part of his senior experience certainly has no clear association with the business of Commercial Architecture in the Denver area.  Nor does it provide a dash of new income to the company.   This said, it was truly a professionally enriching experience. When approached to become a Mentor to a … Continued