Benjamin P. Butera, Architecture

This contemporary custom residence, designed over 25 years ago, retains its timeless design quality. Ben sees this home as a “soft contemporary” design with strong, bold detail and expansive indoor and outdoor environments. A naturally light structure with passive design elements makes this home energy efficient by design.

Before renovation: This before photo reveals a typical one story ranch built in the 1960s. Not worth much in today’s market, except for one item… It was built on John Anderson Drive, on the inter coastal waterway. Houses like this present a dilemma to the new move up professionals that want to be on the water, yet they either choose not to or cannot afford a total tear-down and rebuild. Assuming the house has “good bones” after a thorough inspection, a good architect will program and create a new house from “good bones” analyzing the structure and geometry of the home and creating the revised floor plan to allow for open, naturally light and functional lifestyle design. Our new photo shows t