From VIP Knoxville, May 2020. Daryl Johnson and Polly Fisher remember the day they first saw the house they now call home. “We had looked everywhere,” said Daryl, owner and principal architect at Johnson Architecture. “We hadn’t really thought about Holston Hills, but our realtor told us about this house.” “It was a snowy day in February,” recalled Polly. “We …
From VIP Knoxville, April/May 2020. Indiana natives Dawn and John Skeens never dreamed they’d be living in Tennessee. “When we started thinking about what retirement might look like, we figured we’d end up in Florida like everybody else,” said Dawn. “But then we asked ‘what might give us a different pace? And a milder winter?’” “Moving here is the best …
From Knox.biz, January 2020. Johnson Architecture is bringing up more than buildings. The company’s rising star, Emily Haire, is quickly becoming one of the top project designers at the firm. The 34-year-old project architect joined Johnson in 2011 as an intern and rose to the top because of the creativity and dedication she brings to the job every day. Click …
From Shopper News, Sept. 5, 2019. At more than 115 years old, First Presbyterian Church’s sanctuary on State Street with its colonnaded Greek Revival front is considered a valuable landmark of Knoxville. During some remodeling and addition work completed within the last year, a few more treasures of both the man-made and natural variety were also found alongside the iconic …
From VIP Knoxville, August 2019. Camp Fish Lips looks as though it might have been lifted from a lake in the Adirondacks and placed on its rock bluff overlooking a quiet inlet on Norris Lake. And that’s what Hope and Mark Ingram had in mind. Click here for the story and photos.
Are home improvements among your New Year’s resolutions? Before you get started, here’s some advice from JAI Founder and President Daryl Johnson from FOX 43 News This Morning. Watch now . . .
By John Shearer Shopper-News, Dec. 27, 2018 For several years, the mid-century former chapel of Lakeshore Mental Health Institute was mostly closed as the hospital became smaller, and Lakeshore Park began developing around it. But in recent months, the old chapel building has become open in more ways than one. The building – now called Marble Hall due to its …
By Kristi Nelson Knoxville News Sentinel, Oct. 23, 2017 Rick Friel went into the walk-in clinic for what he thought was a pulled muscle in his back. He ended up hospitalized for nearly two months, being treated for a rare blood cancer. “I drove myself to the emergency room” that day in March 2009, said Friel, now 49. “They took …
By Kristi NelsonKnoxville News Sentinel, Oct. 22, 2016 The Pat Summitt Alzheimer’s Clinic ultimately has one long-term goal: Deal Alzheimer’s and other dementias a blow so hard, no families will ever have to suffer their devastation again. But in the meantime, the clinic, scheduled to open in December at University of Tennessee Medical Center, is being designed to make its …
By Mary ConstantineKnoxville News Sentinel, Sept. 14, 2016 Johnson Architecture Inc. is no stranger to working with restaurants. In addition to Blackberry Farm and Copper Cellar, the newly opened J.C. Holdway Restaurant on Union Avenue is one of its latest clients. Daryl Johnson, CEO of Johnson Architecture, and Jeff Williamson, the point person for the project, said the biggest challenge …
