Author: Blueplate PR
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VMZINC® Enjoys Record Attendance at Expo CIHAC
November 21, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — If attendance at the VMZINC® booth at Expo CIHAC last month is any indication, Mexico will be a thriving market for Umicore Building Products, as the global company anticipates. Expo CIHAC is the premier event in Mexico and Latin America for the building, construction, and housing industries. Held at…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Names 2012 Advisory Council
November 17, 2011 (DURHAM, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), has named the organization’s 2012 Advisory Council. TMH is a 501C3 nonprofit established in 2007 to preserve and promote Modernist architecture in the Triangle. The award-winning website is now the largest educational and historical archive for Modernist residential design…
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Umicore Building Products Holds Open House in New Headquarters
November 15, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – Umicore Building Products USA, manufacturer of VMZINC® architectural zinc, held an open house together with its parent company Umicore USA in its new North American headquarters at 3600 Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 1. Umicore invited site managers from North America as well as corporate executives…
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Umicore Building Products Wins Project of Distinction Award
American Builders Quarterly praises Gateway Center project. November 2, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — American Builders Quarterly magazine (ABQ) has chosen the Gateway Center at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, as a Project of Distinction in its 2011 Building Excellence Awards. Umicore Building Products USA (UBP) entered the 70,000-square-foot project in ABQ’s annual competition…
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The Wall Street Journal Endorses The Frugal Travel Guy
As the go-to blog for credit card sign-up bonuses for frequent flier miles November 1, 2011 (Hilton Head Island, SC) – “Do you want 500,000 frequent-flier miles for free? It can be done, fairly easily,” wrote the Wall Street Journal’s Scott McCartney in his WSJ blog “The Middle Seat,” recently. “Hard-core frequent-flier junkies are churning…
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TMH Announces 2011 Macon Smith Research Grant Recipients
To support research into residential modernist architecture and architects October 27, 2011 — David Hill, Assistant Professor of Architecture at North Carolina State University’s College of Design, has won a second Mason Smith Research Grant from Triangle Modernist Houses, the non-profit, award-winning organization dedicated to documenting, preserving and promoting modernist residential design. Hill and his…
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Fullsteam Brewery Hosts TMH “Thirst4Architecture” Happy Hour
Triangle Modernist Houses takes monthly T4A event to Durham. October 18, 2011 (Durham, NC) – Fullsteam Brewery and Tavern in Durham will host Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH) “Thirst4Architecture” (T4A) Happy Hour on Thursday, October 27, from 6-8 p.m. The cash-bar event, sponsored by Ellen Cassilly Architecture and Urban Durham Realty, is free and open to…
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Travel For Boomers.com Targets Baby Boomers Who Love To Travel
New travel blog is authored by “Boomers” for “Boomers.” October 10, 2011 — A group of self-professed “travel fanatics” and veteran “travel hackers” have launched Travel For Boomers.com, a new blog specifically targeted to “Baby Boomers” (people born between 1946 and 1964), who either love to travel or want to travel, and “want to do…
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