MoTiS is merging with the firm of Knothe & Bruce. We won’t be gone, but we will be different. We hope our friends and followers are as excited as we are about the possibilities to come.

Ella Apartments on East Wash in Madison features a a four-story mural by artist Bill Rebholz, warmly welcoming its new residents and the people who pass by every day and connecting the site’s history with what’s to come.

Single family houses are an architectural mainstay, and multi-family apartment buildings offer an important alternative in high density areas–but what happens when one house isn’t enough, and a big apartment building is too much?