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MoHo Architecture Movie Series Continues with Double Feature
This year’s MoHo Realty Architecture Movie series, sponsored by North Carolina Modernist Houses and MoHo Realty, continues on Thursday, November 5, at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library Auditorium in Raleigh with a double feature that focuses on small houses. “Lustron: The House America’s Been Wait For” documents the rise and fall of engineering genius Carl Strandlund and…
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The Raleigh Architecture Co. Completes Second Tasty Beverage Beer Shop
Transforming a historic auto showroom space in downtown Asheville. (Asheville, NC) — The Raleigh Architecture Company (RACo) recently completed the design of the Tasty Beverage bottle shop and tasting room in Asheville, NC, following on the success of the first Tasty Beverage that opened in Raleigh in 2011. For his new shop in Western North Carolina, Johnny Belflower…
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Chapel Hill Architect and Builder Continue To Raise The Bar For Green Design and Construction
After stealing the show during the 2015 Green Home Tour with “Happy Meadows,” the modern, net-zero passive house she designed in Pittsboro, NC, Chapel Hill architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, now has another modern, net-zero, passive house-inspired home under construction – this time in Chapel Hill, and this time for the custom green homebuilder who helped her create Happy Meadows: Kevin…
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Shaw Design To Direct 12-Day “Building Blitz” in Chapel Hill
An army of volunteers will construct church fellowship hall. Like a conductor directing an orchestra, Chapel Hill architect Keith Shaw, AIA, principal of Shaw Design Associates, will direct a “building blitz” later this month as local volunteers and another 55 volunteers from as far away as Trinidad come together to construct New Life Fellowship’s new 6184-square-foot…
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Educating The Next Generation of Modernist Architects
Over the past two weeks, North Carolina Modernist Houses’ Project BauHow gave away 200 CAD systems to rural high school students – powerful desktop computer and monitors they get to take home and keep. As a result, students can practice CAD all they want. Later, with class instruction, they will test their knowledge through an NCMH design competition featuring a…
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Happy Hour In The Warehouse District: The Raleigh Architecture Co. Hosts October’s “Thirst4Architecture”
Craig Kerins, AIA, and Robby Johnston, AIA, principals of The Raleigh Architecture Co., will host October’s Thirst4Architecture (T4A) happy hour along with North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) on Thursday, October 15, from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public, the event will be held at the firm’s offices in the Warehouse District at 502 South West Street, near the corner of…
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Modapalooza Tour To Visit The Raleigh Architecture Company’s Wynne Street Houses
Three new, modern, for-sale houses in east-central Raleigh. Three new, modern, for-sale houses on Wynne Street in downtown Raleigh, designed by The Raleigh Architecture Co. (RACo), will be part of the “Modapalooza Tour” on Saturday, October 10, sponsored by North Carolina Modernist Houses, an award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting modernist residential design from the 1950s to…
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The Raleigh Architecture Co. Wins AIA NC Honor Award for “Edentwins”
Two modern, urban-infill houses designed in tandem, side-by-side. When architects enter custom-designed housing in awards competitions, they enter either single-family houses or multi-dwelling projects: multiple, separate housing units that are contained within one building or several buildings within one complex. For the 2015 AIA NC Design Awards, The Raleigh Architecture Company (RACo) did neither. Partners…
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MoHo Architecture Movie Series Moves To Hunt Library, Opens Oct. 1.
This year’s MoHo Realty Architecture Movie series, sponsored by North Carolina Modernist Houses and MoHo Realty, starts this Thursday, October 1, at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library Auditorium in Raleigh with a special screening of the 2014 documentary “The Competition.” “The Competition” is a raw account of how some of the best architects in the world, including Jean…
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North Carolina Modernist Houses Announces the 2016 Matsumoto Prize Jury
Nationally known architects to judge annual Modernist house competition. North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH), the award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting Modernist residential design across the state, has announced the 2016 George Matsumoto Prize Jury. The 2016 jury will include luminaries in their field including Ray Kappe, of Los Angeles, CA; Alison Brooks of London, England; Joshua Prince-Ramus…
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