Lineweight Studio

👋 Two and a half years in, maybe it's time to introduce ourselves?

First up: Eric Bethany, RA, Lineweight Studio's founder and principal.

Eric Bethany is an Atlanta-based architect specializing in adaptive reuse and renovation design. While growing up on Sullivan's Island, a barrier island outside of Charleston, South Carolina, he developed an appreciation of historic architecture, walkable urbanism, and climate-responsive design, and further pursued those interested at the Tulane University School of Architecture in New Orleans, where he completed dual Bachelors and Masters degrees in architecture. After arriving in Atlanta in 2015, Bethany discovered a passion for adaptive reuse and renovation projects and learned the nuts and bolts of walkable urbanism as a designer at at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects (formerly Kronberg Wall Architects). After contributing to several award-winning projects over seven years at KUA, Bethany left the firm as Senior Designer in 2022 and founded Lineweight Studio as the next chapter in his pursuit to bring together his passion and expertise for adaptive reuse, placemaking, and highly contextual design. Since opening Lineweight Studio, Bethany has helped local small businesses, homeowners, and property developers to develop unique design solutions and navigate the convoluted processes of permitting and construction.

Outside of work, Bethany is an avid traveler, a music lover, enthusiastic eater, and an advocate for a better South. He is always excited to talk about the region's diverse cuisines, art, music, literature, geography, and of course, architecture. Ask him about heritage grains sometime - ideally after a couple drinks. He and his wife Stephanie live in a 1928 American Foursquare in College Park with their dog and cat, who get along just fine.

Images:
1. Grace Midtown Church
2. Brown Hayes Department Store
3. Highland Church
4. Heritage Pine Lodge
5. Heritage Dock House
6. BODYROK Atlanta
7. Ormewood Park Residence

Projects 1-3 completed while at Kronberg Urbanists + Architects; 4-5 designed at KUA and completed at Lineweight Studio.

Thrilled to share images from the new location at ! If you're looking for a pilates studio in Atlanta, look no further. What a fun project - we really enjoyed working with this project team to conceive and deliver this unique retail buildout.

A special thank you to Meredith for being an awesome client and to Erin and Nick at for a smooth construction process. Swipe 👉 to see some really fun custom lighting, custom millwork by , and finishes selected by .

Bonus selfie at the end from 6am acoustic testing with 🔈

Interior Design:
Contractor:
Custom Millwork:
Custom Lighting:
MEP Engineer:
Acoustic Engineer: Acustica Design
Photos:

Thrilled to finally share photos from Heritage, the Catholic-oriented retreat center on a historic 200-acre property in rural Georgia that I was fortunate to design in collaboration with a large and talented group including , Jeff Williams, , , , , , and with contributions from many others. I am so proud of how this project turned out. A huge thank you to for capturing the project beautifully. A few more people deserve specific mention:

Tripp Pickles of Southern Landscape and Design was an exceptional construction partner, securing resources for this remote, rural project during the peak of the pandemic labor and material shortages. I cannot speak highly enough of Tripp and his team.

Betsy Orr and her team .ga did an outstanding job keeping the team on track and in high spirits during the long design and construction process.

My involvement in this project spanned five years of continuous, rigorous design. It had a huge impact on my life, personally and professionally. I made over a hundred trips to the site between May 2019 and April 2024. I got married, started my architecture practice, bought a house, and more all while working on this project. 

I am so proud of what the project team has accomplished, and proud of the strong relationships that came out of the process. “Rigorous” really is the best word to describe that process - so much thought and effort, so many zoom calls, site visits, debates, mockups, re-mockups, etc. went into transforming this raw rural property into the rich, coherent, and beautiful place it is today. This project is a prime example of the act of placemaking - and a specific subset called ‘sacred placemaking’ - and I am excited to share more about how we arrived at this spectacular outcome. Over the next few weeks, I’m going to share more photos and thoughts that unpack the thinking behind the design - I’ll hope you’ll follow along here and on linkedin.