The Space Between designs and builds human-scale places where architecture, gardens, and the spaces between them come together to create something magical.

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Work shaped by place

We pursue projects where thoughtful planning, beautiful design, and useful construction can create lasting value for a property and the place around it.

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The Red Barn

Historic Rehabilitation | Adaptive Reuse | Hospitality | Residential

The rehabilitation of a 1925 warehouse as a place for food, drink, gathering, residences, and furnished stays. The project preserves the building’s defining materials and industrial character, while adapting it for a new chapter of daily use.

Cartersville, Georgia

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Mercantile Row

Mercantile Row is a thoughtfully designed, mixed-use development in downtown Cartersville that blends historic preservation with new construction to create a walkable, garden-forward community. The project is guided by a simple belief: buildings and towns last a long time, so it is worth taking the trouble to build them mindfully. Each element is intentionally designed to create moments of beauty, pockets of community, and a meaningful relationship between private and shared space.

Cartersville, Georgia

Mixed Use Development | Infill Development | Commercial | Residential

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An illustrated aerial view of the Walker Street pocket neighborhood with five single-family houses, each with a porch and small lawn. The houses are surrounded by trees and shrubbery, with brick and concrete walkways connecting them.

Main & Walker Pocket Neighborhood

A pocket neighborhood of five homes—including three starter-home cottages and two larger houses—gathered around a shared garden at the heart of the community. The plan carefully balances public and private space, creating places where neighbors can naturally cross paths while allowing each home to retain its own sense of retreat. Porches, gardens, and defined thresholds soften the transition between shared and personal space, fostering the casual connections and everyday interactions that give a small neighborhood its sense of belonging.

Cartersville, Georgia

Pocket Neighborhood | Residential

Coming Soon
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A black-and-white illustrated map of a densely built urban area with numerous buildings, streets, trees, and open spaces.
A narrow courtyard between white-walled houses with brick accents, featuring a stone pathway, potted plants, a small bench, and a central tree, with a streetlamp on the right side.
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Why The Space Between

  • THE SPACE BETWEEN acknowledges that human life itself is lived  in a kind of in-between state. We inhabit the interval between  promise and fulfillment, longing and homecoming, the temporal and the eternal.

    If architecture has a moral or spiritual task, it is not  merely to provide shelter but to create places that point  beyond themselves. Places that offer a glimpse of permanence in a transient world.

  • THE SPACE BETWEEN also refers to the overlooked spaces that make cities lovable. 

    Most development focuses on buildings. Great placemaking focuses on what happens between buildings: The courtyard. The  passage. The garden walk. The pedestrian lane. The plaza. The shaded threshold between public and private life. These are the spaces where neighbors meet, children play, conversations happen, and community forms.

    The modern city often prioritizes movement and efficiency at the scale of vehicles. THE SPACE BETWEEN seeks opportunities to restore the human scale and to discover urban oases hidden within the block, creating places that feel intimate, beautiful, and alive.

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