| architecture | BELOW RIGHT: The Ketchum, Idaho, office of Seattle-based construction firm Schuchart/Dow is a live/work space designed for local staff as well as those visiting from the main office. Maple plywood built-ins and LED pendants (an original Schuchart/Dow design) recur throughout the building. BELOW LEFT: The 950-pound blackened-steel front door was made locally by Phred’s Steel Fabrication, with hardware from the Tom Kundig Collection. The hand-lettered metal text was created by Seattle-based Argent Fabrication.
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construction: Schuchart/Dow architecture: Olson Kundig metalwork: Argent Fabrication; Phred’s Steel Fabrication
An old dynamite storage facility near Sun Valley, Idaho, is reborn as a ruggedly handsome live/work space. Written by COURTNEY FERRIS : Photographed by EIRIK JOHNSON
SCHUCHART/DOW’S SATELLITE OFFICE in Ketchum, Idaho, hides in plain sight. The exterior of the 1,200-squarefoot live/work space, nicknamed the Dynamite Shed in tribute to its past as an explosives storehouse, blends into the area’s frontier town–meets–ski village aesthetic. Step up to the 950-pound blackened-steel front door, though, and you’ll get an indication of the building’s modern interventions. Overhead, a thin steel plate extends to shelter visitors, its streamlined form a surprisingly sleek contrast to the surrounding rough-hewn stone walls.
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Built around 1880 during the Gold Rush, the granite-andwood structure is one of Ketchum’s oldest buildings. Originally constructed to hold dynamite sold at the local hardware store, the formerly single-story, sod-roofed building has since undergone multiple renovations; the second floor and Bavarianinspired roof were added in the ’50s. In 2013, responding to its growing market in Sun Valley, Schuchart/Dow purchased the building with the intent of turning the ground floor into office space and the second floor into guest quarters where its Seattle staffers could stay when they’re in town for work. »