Cornerstone Architects

Rodney Palmer did a fantastic job creating a warm but modern home for me. Embracing my eclectic taste and dealing with the very specific requirements of building within the very tight requirements of the city of Austin. His expertise and his clear sense of style as well as his flexibility in accodomating my special and evolving specifications where wonderful. His drawings went through the tight city inspections without a redraw. Very professional very timely and I feel so greatful to have my dream home!

We hired Cornerstone Architects to design and architect our custom home in Austin, TX. This was a pretty large and complex project with 6500 sqft of interior space and a total of 9500 sqft. From our very first meeting to any additional meetings we need with our builder, our overall experience with Cornerstone has been nothing but phenomenal. Their ability to understand our vision, their attention to detail and their patience with us to make sure they capture every single detail helped us design the house we had in mind without compromising anything. Starting from our Chief Architect Ranjit Gupta, his project managers, the designers and the back office staff, everyone was friendly, personable and overall just fantastic. If we were to build another custom home, we would hire Cornerstone in a heartbeat. Thank you Cornerstone for our beautiful home!

Bob Wetmore at Cornerstone Architects designed the house of our dreams. We had a design in our minds’ eye and he captured it beautifully! The process took some time of course and we completed it remotely (a year prior to COVID). He and his team were a pleasure to work with. You get what you pay for! Well worth it!

An amazing agency to work with! Rodney Palmer is really detailed oriented, creative and we really like working with him on our commercial and residential projects!

I was not satisfied with the local architects in my city. The styles for the local architects were either ultra modern like office buildings or very traditional like a french chateau or an English Tudor mansion. I looked on the internet to find a style that I liked. I saw several houses that appealed to me on Houzz, and they had the same architect in common, Rodney Palmer with Cornerstone in Austin. After I met with Rodney, I hired him on the spot because of his easy going and confident manner. I have been extremely pleased with the house design, and my builder keeps raving about the plans. Highly recommend Rodney Palmer and Cornerstone Architects!!!

I have worked with Rodney Palmer and the team at Cornerstone architects on 4 different projects now. They have always provided a fantastic product and their knowledge of what can actually be built and how to get it done makes the construction process go much more smoothly. Best of all, they actually deliver on their time and cost estimates. Great architects!

We hired Rodney Palmer at Cornerstone to be the architect for a new home we are building here in Austin. Rodney was truly excellent to work with. He really worked hard to understand our needs and desires and incorporate them into the plans. He was always available to talk if we had questions about changes to the plans and he worked diligently with our builder to ensure the builder had all he needed both for construction as well as permitting requirements. Also, Rodney's fee structure helped us have predictability when it came to projecting costs for the design of our house. I would strongly recommend Rodney to anyone looking to design a house.

We engaged Ranjit Gupta and Cornerstone Architects in early 2020 to design our house on a bluff outside of Blanco, TX. We interviewed 2 other well-regarded firms in Austin as well. In addition to an impressive array of prior projects, we really took to Ranjit's collaborative approach. He made many suggestions and yes, gracefully steered us away from some of ours, but never acted in an imperious or my-way-or-the-highway fashion. He is receptive and encourages conversation and open exchange. Our building site presented some challenges but we worked through that with minimal difficulty. Ranjit advised us on quality builders he had worked with on similar scale projects and that advice proved to be essential and successful. The entire Cornerstone team is friendly and responsive. We also engaged their interior design department on a limited basis to advise on specific matters. Highest regards and we would commend Ranjit and Cornerstone wholeheartedly.

We have worked with the Cornerstone Team on 4 projects. They are easy to work with, have an amazing office to have meetings in , quick to reply to emails and most importantly very efficient when it comes to building a house/working on a project. If I have any other projects coming up, my first call would be to Rodney, Marvin and the whole team at Cornerstone!

We first met Rodney Palmer with Cornerstone a few years ago. He came highly recommended by an experienced custom home builder in the community. We've now been involved with two projects with him firsthand, and have subsequently referred friends and spec builder clients to him as well. Having worked with several other architects over the past few years, we knew what we weren't looking for! We had previously had a few bad experiences with architects not necessarily honoring our design or budget expectations. We like how Cornerstone has a wide "range" in the sense that they can design something super high end or something much more reasonable and they understand construction costs to keep things in check based on a clients interests. They design stuff that looks great but isn't cost-prohibitive to build. During the design process, Rodney really took time with us to make sure we got everything we wanted and he brought a lot of value and practical experience to the table. Rodney and his team are super responsive. When a question comes up in the field, it's amazing how quickly they respond with a practical solution which helps keep the project moving forward. I highly recommend Rodney and Cornerstone to anyone looking for high quality, professional architecture and a good design and construction experience.

When my wife and I were in the design phase of our lake home we interviewed a number of firms across the country. One of the main reasons we selected Cornerstone Architects is they listened to our unique and custom requirements. Ranjit Gupta and his team took our concept and developed a design that far exceeded our expectations. On numerous occasions during construction I referenced the drawings and found the detail and supporting notes in the plan. One last item I need to mention is with the exception of one in person visit to Austin, the entire process was completed remotely. I highly recommend the Cornerstone team!

Mark was amazing from start to finish, he shows great detail to projects that he personally works and he really helped us design our dream home. Our vision was to design a Texas Modern home and since we were the builders we really needed an architect with vision and creativity, he was that and more. Now Cornerstone Architects is our main architect for our custom home building company Murphy Signature Homes and we have been loyal clients since 2013.