AIA Award Winning Clyde Hill Home
1436 92nd Ave NE is an AIA award winning Clyde Hill home designed by Seattle architect Rex Hohlbein.
The home is undoubtedly amazing, a striking 4,600 square foot modern piece of art built in 2007 with 4 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms on over half an acre. Priced at $5.6m.
But when I google’d the architect Rex Hohlbein, I got wrapped up not browsing pretty pictures of his work but by reading his story of going from architect of luxury homes to champion of the homeless. From Quirksee, Why a Seattle architect is giving up designing million-dollar homes to help the homeless:
Rex Hohlbein had been designing luxurious homes for more than two decades when his life began to shift.
He began inviting homeless people into the office of his architecture firm to warm up, use the bathroom and get a cup of coffee. Pretty soon, he found it hard to spend his days designing million-dollar homes when he was meeting so many people he found sleeping in tents or under a doorway.
Which lead to the Homeless in Seattle Facebook page which lead to the Block Project – tiny homes for people to putting in their backyards to house the homeless.
Good grounding when looking at multi-million dollar homes.
Listed by Carol Truex – Coldwell Banker Danforth and Xinyu Zhang – Berkshire Hathaway HS NW.
