Category: architecture
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Smart, Stylish, Sustainable: House in Beech Forest Featured on Fall Modapalooza Tour
The name Arielle Condoret Schechter has become synonymous in the Triangle with smart, stylish, Net Zero Passive houses whose modern horizontal forms appear as comfortable on their sites as the forests that often surround them. Fans of this Chapel Hill architect’s work were pleased to learn that her most recently completed house — this…
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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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Hybrid Design Firm Moves Into Downtown Chapel Hill
On August 21, pod architecture + design (pod a+d), the award-winning design firm previously located in Carrboro, moved its multi-disciplinary studio from the historic Depot on that town’s Main Street to offices at 201-A North Columbia Street in Chapel Hill. The move reflects the partners’ desire to establish their studio in the more nationally known Chapel Hill…
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Scuppernong Books in Greensboro Welcomes Native Son Frank Harmon and ‘Native Places” on January 27
FRANK HARMON (Photo by Christine Simeloff) Multi-award-winning architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, grew up in the 1950s on Rolling Road in Greensboro. In the introduction to his new critically acclaimed book Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See, Harmon relates that he “discovered reading in the Greensboro Public Library” and that he “learned most of what…
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Edisto Art Guild to Host Architect/Author Frank Harmon and ‘Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See’
Architect and author Frank Harmon, FAIA, who designed the modern, award-winning Sunday School addition to the historic Circular Congregational Church in Charleston and the “Seven Sisters” residence on St. Helena Island, will present his new, critically acclaimed book Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See when the Edisto Art Guild hosts a book-signing event…
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Leading Design Firms Team Up to Propose Elegant Concept for J.W. Rutledge Distillery
pod architecture + design, Luckett & Farley present scheme to investors at special event During a special event held recently in downtown Louisville, KY, pod architecture + design (pod a+d) of Carrboro, NC, and Luckett & Farley architects and engineers of Louisville, presented a surprising concept for a modern, environmentally sustainable, mid-sized distillery to an…
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Carrboro Architect Douglas Pierson Appointed to the AIA Triangle Board of Directors
Douglas Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, co-founder and a principal designer of pod architecture + design (pod a+d), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Triangle section, American Institute of Architects (AIAT) for a two-year term. The AIA Triangle’s mission is “to serve its members and the Triangle community by enhancing and…
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RALEIGH MAGAZINE: “A Smooth Transition”
Blueplate PR client: Tonic Design by Jane Porter | photo by Keith Isaacs When old design meets new, there’s often an element of surprise to the final result. For a residence in Raleigh’s Historic Cameron Park neighborhood, architect Katherine Hogan and designer Vinny Petrarca, the principals of Tonic Design, created an air of the unexpected…
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So & So Books To Host An Afternoon with Frank Harmon – a book signing event for ‘Native Places: Drawing as Way of Seeing”
Blueplate PR client: Frank Harmon, FAIA, author FRANK HARMON, FAIA (Photo by William Morgan) So & So Books, an independent bookstore in downtown Raleigh’s trendy Person Street commercial district, will host a book-signing event for architect/author Frank Harmon, FAIA, and his new book Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See on Saturday, December 1. Beginning at 5…
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