Author: Blueplate PR
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“Hungry Neck” House in Downtown Raleigh To Be Featured on 2015 Homes Tour
An award-winning Modern home in Raleigh’s old “Hungry Neck” neighborhood, designed and built by The Raleigh Architecture Company (RACo), will be open to the public during the sixth Residential Tour sponsored by the Triangle Section of the American Institute of Architects’ North Carolina chapter (AIA Triangle). The tour will take place on Saturday, September 26, from 9 a.m. to…
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Leland Little Auctions To Host September “Thirst4Architecture”
Leland Little Auction and Estate Sales in Historic Hillsborough will host September’s “Thirst4Architecture” (T4A) happy hour with North Carolina Modernist Houses on Thursday, September 9, from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public, the event will be held inside one of the largest estate auction houses in North Carolina, where T4A guests will be able…
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Project BauHow Supports Nine Rural NC High Schools This Year with Computers, CAD Systems
North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) and its educational initiative Project BauHow (Bauhaus + Know-How) will support 200 9th through 11th graders in rural North Carolina high schools this fall by providing free computer systems with Computer Aided Design (CAD) software. This is the third year NCMH’s Project BauHow has donated CAD systems to rural high school drafting classes. “High school drafting…
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CUBE design + research To Host August “Thirst4Architecture”
Architect Jason Hart of CUBE design+ research will host August’s Thirst4Architecture (T4A) happy hour with North Carolina Modernist Houses on Thursday, August 20, from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public, the event will be held in the open-air courtyard at Straw Valley, 5420 Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, Durham. Emilie Huin, broker/owner of Triangle Modern Homes Real Estate LLC, a specialist…
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NC Filmmaker Seeks Indiegogo Funding To Continue Holocaust Survivors’ Stories
Out of the six million people murdered by the Nazis during World War II, one 87-year-old survivor is the subject of the first film in a new documentary film series entitled “Six Million Minus One,” to be funded by an Indiegogo crowd-sourcing campaign. The man is Harry Weiss of Raleigh, NC, a diminutive grandfather with a shock of…
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2015 Matsumoto Prize Honors Six Exemplary Modernist Houses
North Carolina Modernist Houses announced the six winners – three Jury awards and three People’s Choice awards — for the 2015 George Matsumoto Prize for Modernist residential design during a special event at McConnell Studios in downtown Raleigh. Houses submitted to the annual competition must be in North Carolina but designers may be based anywhere. A panel of distinguished architects…
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Live On Wynne: Three New, Modern Houses To Reinvigorate Another Central Neighborhood in Downtown Raleigh
The Raleigh Architecture Company and Monarch Property Company have teamed up to design and build three new, modern, for-sale homes side by side on formerly empty lots within a re-emerging central neighborhood in downtown Raleigh. The team calls the project Live On Wynne. The houses are located at 608, 612, and 614 Wynne Street near Chavis Memorial Park in…
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McConnell Studios To Host Matsumoto Prize Presentation, Thirst4Architecture
McConnell Studios in Boylan Heights, Raleigh, will host North Carolina Modernist Houses’ 2015 George Matsumoto Prize awards for Modernist residential design on Thursday, July 23, from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public, the awards presentation will be part of a “Thirst4Architecture” design networking event. Along with the awards presentation, entertainment for the evening will include free…
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2015 Matsumoto Prize Online Public Voting Is Now Open
Public online voting for the 2015 George Matsumoto Prize, which recognizes excellence in Modernist residential design throughout North Carolina*, is now open at https://ncmhcompetitions.squarespace.com/vote. The Prize, this year sponsored by Leland Little Auctions, includes public voting to determine three “People’s Choice” winners. *Anyone in the world may vote by email (one time per email address) after viewing the submissions at the…
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