Drewett Works received three Masonry Architectural honors from the Arizona Masonry Council during the Masonry Awards 2023 ceremony. The 32nd Annual Excellence in Masonry Architectural Awards, which took place on Sept. 22, 2023, in Scottsdale, celebrated outstanding masonry design, workmanship and creativity using brick, block and/or stone. Drewett Works won the Honor Award–Residential and the Craftsmanship [...]
Drewett Works' project, STRATA, was featured in ICONIC LIFE'S premiere HOME edition 2023. We'd like to thank writer Nancy Erdmann for her insightful story on this extraordinary home and photographer Werner Segarra for his ability to capture its essence with his stunning imagery. Icon of the Desert Designed as a [...]
Eric Lin – Intern In May of 2023, Eric graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in architecture—an accomplishment achieved after only three years of study. Born in Ann Arbor, Mich., Eric moved to Arizona at a young age and grew up in Phoenix, where he attended Brophy College Prep before heading [...]
Jake Bartels – Architect-in-Training A dual-major graduate of Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College, Jake is as ambitious as he is hardworking. In the spring of 2024, he received his business management and architecture degrees, and in fall will begin work on his master's in architecture. Although he was born in Michigan, Jake calls Arizona [...]
Architect C.P. Drewett drew on his steadfast faith, passion for music and gift for design to provide a new home and a facelift for Fisk Opus 67a, a pipe organ at Camelback Bible Church. For over four decades, the Paradise Valley, Ariz., church was without a pipe organ, although the building was designed specifically to [...]
Drewett Works received the Gold Award for Excellence in Architecture during the inaugural ICONIC LIFE Design Awards at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts on Sept. 30, 2023. Publisher Renee Dee presided over the Iconic Life Design Awards, a black-tie event presented by Monogram Luxury Appliances, thanking those in the local design community for its [...]
Drewett Works' project, White Box No. 5, was featured in the July/August 2023 Luxe Interiors + Design edition. We'd like to thank writer Monique McIntosh for her beautiful story and home editor Shannon Sharpe for showcasing this unique minimalist residence. Focal Point Immersed within the landscape, a modern Paradise Valley [...]
ICONIC LIFE publisher Renee Dee sits down with three of Arizona’s powerhouse architects during an episode of ICONIC HOUR to delve into Arizona’s architectural renaissance. C.P. Drewett, Brent Kendle and Mark Candelaria, three of Arizona's top architects, share their thoughts during this thought-provoking podcast that took place in June 2023 on ICONIC LIFE's ICONIC HOUR [...]
Configured at a diagonal on a corner lot, White Box No. 5—a modern desert residence—is an unexpectedly beautiful contradiction to its neighboring homes and a brilliant solution to a hot environment. Located in Cameldale Estates, an exclusive enclave of 11 private residences in Paradise Valley, Ariz., the five-bedroom, 6,595-square-foot home and guest casita are oriented [...]
STRATA a desert dwelling is a monumental book celebrating the modernist design of an extraordinary family compound in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. Like most ventures in the deserts of the American Southwest, the building of STRATA just north of Phoenix, Ariz., took perseverance and grit. For the architect, builder and interior [...]