Aerial view of The Bend at Carlton Landing — the pocket neighborhood's central courtyard at sunset, lake in the distance

Completed 2020Carlton Landing, Oklahoma

The Bend

A pocket neighborhood of structural masonry homes — the small-scale blueprint for everything that came after.

The Bend at Carlton Landing is where the Building Culture playbook took its current shape: a tight cluster of structural masonry homes, designed and built by the same team that drew them.

Two awards — Emerging Excellence in the Classical Tradition (ICAA, 2020) and a Design Excellence Award from the Urban Guild (2021) — and a neighborhood that's better today than the day it was finished.

It is the small-scale blueprint for everything that came after.

Gallery

The Bend's iconic brick moon-gate — circular opening in a brick garden wall framing a view of the gathering courtyard beyond.

Cottage at The Bend with a circular brick moon-gate set into the garden wall, timber-frame porch and balcony above.

White-painted brick cottage at The Bend with a dark metal roof, timber-frame porch, and cedar-shake gable.

Aerial of The Bend at sunset — pocket neighborhood of cottages with dark metal roofs, Lake Eufaula visible in the distance.

Side view of a Bend cottage with a curving timber-frame porch and rocking chairs, lake landscape visible in the distance.

Aerial overhead of The Bend's central courtyard — circular brick fire-pit at center, long communal table, surrounded by cottages.

The Bend's evening gathering area at dusk — string lights, a long communal table, fire pit, magnolia tree, whitewashed brick wall with vertical ventilation slits.

Detail of a Bend cottage corner at dusk — white-painted brick, cedar-shake gable, timber porch braces, and a rainbow behind.

Street-level view at The Bend — two cottages with dark metal roofs and white-painted brick on a quiet morning.

Bend cottage with a side timber-frame porch and brick garden wall, project nameplate at corner.

Brick entry gate at The Bend with the project's nameplate, brick walkway leading into the neighborhood.

Aerial drone shot of The Bend's pocket-neighborhood cottage cluster around the central green courtyard.

Two children on bikes on a brick walkway at The Bend, cedar-shake cottages in the background.

The Bend's communal table at the gathering area — long concrete table, vertical ventilation slits in the whitewashed brick wall behind, geraniums in terracotta pots.

Courtyard view at The Bend through timber-frame porch posts — adjacent cottage with red brick masonry detail visible.

Bend cottage shell under construction — brick gable end with arched window openings, no roof yet, raking afternoon sun inside.

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