Maine is fortunate in having not only a first-rate design magazine—Maine Home + Design—but also the architects, artists, and craftspeople whose work fills its pages month after month. Every issue that crosses our desks underscores Maine’s abundance of talented and creative people, and the unique sense of place their work celebrates and strengthens.
The November issue gives pride of place to GO Logic, with a cover story on our recently completed Maine Rural Modern. Located in our hometown of Belfast, and designed and built for the parents of GO Logic principal Matt O’Malia, this project represents some of the strongest themes of our residential work—site- and region-specificity, Passive House-level building performance, and super-clean design—and we are pleased that MH+D chose to feature it so prominently.
Writer J. Michael Welton’s story does a fine job of describing the finished building and site, and also of conveying the collaborative process that produced them. The house reflects not only the vivid personalities of its owners, Beverly and John O’Malia, but also their contribution to the actual construction process (John built the foundation facing himself, with stones he gathered on the site). And the photography, by friend and frequent collaborator Trent Bell, shows the house just as we like to see it. Nice job all around.
