According to Lubbock Online, when Mark Lawson began making plans for building a house in Ransom Canyon, he had only one goal in mind – he wanted it to be different.
“I yearned to go home to something different,” Lawson said. “I asked Robert Bruno (designer of the metal house) if he would design a house for me. He said no. He was busy with his projects and stuff. I said, ‘Well, I bought the lot right across the street.’ What I meant was he didn’t have to go far to oversee the project. Because off that move, because of buying the land before I really knew what I was going to do with it, that actually took several years to figure out.”