Category: architecture
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NC Botanical Garden’s New LEED Platinum Education Center Opens
October 13, 2009 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – Frank Harmon Architect PA of Raleigh, NC, has completed the North Carolina Botanical Garden’s new and thoroughly “green” 29,656-square-foot Education Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Governor Beverly Perdue attended the dedication ceremony and praised the project for being slated as the first LEED…
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Triangle Modernist Houses’ Director George Smart Receives Sir Walter Raleigh Award
October 8, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) – George Smart, Jr., founder and executive director of Triangle Modernist Houses.com, has received a 2009 City of Raleigh Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Community Appearance. The awards ceremony was held October 7 at the Fletcher Opera Theater in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh.…
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Triangle Modernist Houses’ Raleigh Tour To Spotlight Architects’ Personal Residences
October 1, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – Three Modernist houses that architects designed for their own families in West Raleigh will be the focus of Triangle Modernist Houses’ (TMH) Homes Tour to be held Saturday, November 7, from 1-4 p.m. The tour will spotlight the private residences of architects Thomas Crowder, Raymond Sawyer and Brian Shawcroft.…
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North Carolina’s First “Green” Oyster Hatchery Starts Construction in Wilmington
September 9, 2009 (WILMINGTON, NC) – Construction on the “green” Oyster Hatchery Research facility at the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, NC, has begun this week, heralding improvement of the state’s oyster population and, in turn, cleaner coastal waters. And both will emanate from in an environmentally sustainable building. The onset of construction is…
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Local Advocate Hopes Good News for Housing Market Means Good News for Modernist Houses
August 25, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) — After the Associated Press reported last week that “the U.S. housing market is rebounding faster than expected” (News & Observer), George Smart of Durham, NC, the founder and director of Triangle Modernist Archives Inc, (TMA) is hoping some of that momentum will help preserve some of the modern houses…
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Charleston Architect Serves On AIA/Tennessee Awards Jury
August 24, 2009 (MEMPHIS, TN) — South Carolina architect Whitney Powers, AIA, principal and president of the award-winning firm Studio A, Inc., in Charleston, was among the jurors who recently selected nine award winners out of 97 entries during the American Institute of Architects/Tennessee’s 2009 Design Awards program. A LEED-certified practitioner, Powers brought her expertise…
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Ocean Conservation Center Featured On Treehugger.com’s “Ten Best Environmental Programs” List
(BEAUFORT, NC) – The Ocean Conservation Center in Beaufort, NC, designed by Raleigh, NC-based Frank Harmon Architect PA, is one of the reasons Treehugger.com has placed Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences on its list of “10 of the Best College Environmental Program in the U.S.” Treehugger.com is an international media…
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Durham Modernist House Tour: Jewel In The Woods
August 7, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), the educational archive for modernist residential design in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of NC, will host tours of the Christine and Michael Coates residence in Rougemont, NC, on Saturday, October 3, from 1-3:30 p.m. Tucked away on a 10-acre site just north of Durham, the…
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Exemplary Mid-Century Home Endangered In Durham
August 3, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) – A 1950’s house going on the market isn’t news. When that house is exemplary of its style and period and in danger of demolition, it is. The 1958 John and Binford Carr residence in Durham, NC, overlooking Hope Valley Golf Course is for sale. Triangle Modernist Houses, an archiving…
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Triangle Modernist Houses’ Summer Doubleheader Tour Sells Out Quickly
July 22, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses has sold out its first August tour, a “Behind-The-Scenes” look at the Durham Performing Arts Center in downtown Durham and architect Phil Szostak residence in Orange County. The tour will be held on Saturday, August 1, from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Phil Szostak, FAIA, principal…
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