Category: architecture
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Putting The Ease in Easements: How To Save Modernist Houses From Future Bulldozers
July 22, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) — Property easements aren’t sexy, but they are important, especially when they concern property with historic value. Easements protect historic structures by assuring that the property’s intrinsic values will be preserved through subsequent ownership. To help the general public understand how easements work, what they protect, their advantages and disadvantages,…
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Triangle Modernist Houses. com Awards Its First Research Grant
July 15, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) — David Hill, assistant professor architecture at North Carolina State University’s College of Design in Raleigh, has received Triangle Modernist Houses’ first Macon Smith Research Grant. Triangle Modernist Houses.com is the online entity of Triangle Modernist Archives, Inc., an award-winning nonprofit which preserves, advocates, and builds community around modernist residential…
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Blueplate PR Goes Modern with Triangle Modernist Houses.com
July 7, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill “Triangle” region of North Carolina has the third-largest concentration of modernist houses in the nation, bested only by Los Angeles and Chicago. This fact surprises most people, even those who live in the Triangle. But not TriangleModernistHouses.com (TMH), an award-winning nonprofit which preserves, advocates, and builds…
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National Journal Features Case Study of Duke’s First LEED-Gold Building
July 2, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – Duke University’s only LEED Gold-certified building – the Ocean Conservation Center in Beaufort, NC – is featured in a case study in this month’s Environmental Design + Conservation, a professional journal and premier source for integrated high-performance building dedicated to efficient and sustainable design and construction. Designed by award-winning…
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TriangleModernistHouses.com Wins National Architecture Award
July 1, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) — Triangle Modernist Houses, an online, nonprofit educational archive for cataloguing, preserving, and advocating modernist residential design in the Triangle area of North Carolina, was honored recently with the 2009 Paul E. Buchanan Award from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. The Buchanan Award was established in 1993 to recognize contributions to…
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Charleston’s Studio A Launches New User-Friendly Website
May 27, 2009 (CHARLESTON, SC) – Architect Whitney Powers, AIA, principal of Studio A, Inc., in Charleston, South Carolina, recently underscored her commitment to innovative design by launching a new and improved website and news blog at www.studioa-architecture.com. Created by Buff Ross of Alloneword Design in Charleston, Studio A’s revamped site is intended to be…
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Design Team Member Becomes Registered Architect
May 26, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – Frank Harmon Architect PA in Raleigh, NC, is pleased to announce that Matthew Griffith has successfully completed his registration exams and is a registered architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Griffith joined Frank Harmon, FAIA’s award-winning firm in November of 2006 after moving to Raleigh…
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