Category: architecture competition
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Public Voting Opens for 2023 Matsumoto Prize
North Carolina’s highest honor for Modernist residential architecture. June 19, 2023 (DURHAM, NC) — Public voting is now open at NCMHCOMPETITIONS.ORG to select the best modernist house among 19 submitted from across the state in the 2023 George Matsumoto Prize, the annual design awards program hosted by NCModernist and sponsored by Fitch Lumber / MARVIN.…
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Carrboro Hillside House Wins a Jury Award in 2022 Matsumoto Prize Competition
(CARRBORO, NC) – “Hillside House,” the modern, metal-clad home designed by architect Doug Pierson, AIA, and designer Youn Choi of pod architecture + design for their own family of four, received a prestigious Jury Award during the 2022 George Matsumoto Prize competition recognizing excellence in modernist residential design. Leland Little Auctions in Hillsborough hosted this year’s awards ceremony…
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Chapel Hill Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, Receives Two “Best of Houzz” Awards This Year
Chapel Hill-based architect and Blueplate PR client Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, recently learned that she has received two Best of Houzz Awards for 2021 — one for Design, the other for Client Service — adding to the four Best of Houzz Awards she’s received since 2016. Houzz is a leading platform for home design and…
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Arielle Condoret Schechter’s “Haw River House” Wins Matsumoto Prize
The Paradis-Zimmerman home earns second place in the coveted Jury Awards category. PHOTOS BY TZU CHEN The modern, Net Zero house that Chapel Hill, NC, architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, designed for Kate Paradis and Scott Zimmerman received a high honor last week. Perched on a rocky knoll overlooking the rapids, the “Haw River House”…
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Chapel Hill Firm Wins AIA Kentucky Award for Modern Bourbon Distillery in Downtown Louisville
In a ceremony in Cincinnati, Ohio, last week, Doug Pierson, AIA, and Youn Choi, partners at pod architecture + design (pod a+d) in Chapel Hill, NC, received their second design award for Rabbit Hole Distillery, the metal, glass, and blackened wood structure they designed in downtown Louisville, KY, that the president of the Kentucky Distillers Association called “a modern…
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METAL CONSTRUCTION NEWS: “Dynamic Distillery” – Rabbit Hole takes the Grand Award
Blueplate PR client: pod architecture + design LLC In the 2018 Metal Construction News Building & Roofing Awards By Mark Robins, Senior Editor Form follows process. This is contemporary bourbon maker, founder and CEO of Rabbit Hole Distilling, Kaveh Zamanian’s vision for life and for his Rabbit Hole Distillery manufacturing building in downtown Louisville, Ky.…
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Steel-Clad House in Duke Forest Receives 2018 AIA Triangle Honor Award
Photography © Tzu Chen Photography “Piedmont Retreat,” a modern, single-family home clad in Cor-Ton® steel, earned for Tonic Design of Raleigh, NC, one of only three Honor awards — and the only residential design among the three — in the 2018 AIA Triangle Design Awards. The awards were presented March 22 during a gala event at the Contemporary…
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For The Third Consecutive Year, Chapel Hill Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter is Awarded “Best of Houzz” for Client Satisfaction
Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, of Chapel Hill, NC, has been voted by Houzz.com as a winner of a Best of Houzz 2018 award, marking the third consecutive year she has received this award from the popular worldwide online community. From among more than one million active home building, remodeling, and design industry professionals associated with Houzz, Schechter won in…