Category: architecture
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METAL ARCHITECTURE: “A Modern Retreat”
Corten steel helps residence blend into surroundings seamlessly By Marcy Marro, Editor Located in a wooded cul-de-sac neighborhood in Durham, N.C., this single-family residence, nicknamed Piedmont Retreat, is wrapped in vertical Corten steel panels facing the street, and vast expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass and cantilevered windows in the back that overlook the surrounding forest. The owners reached out to Raleigh, N.C.-based Tonic Design…
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Works In Progress: Chapel Hill Architect Arielle Schechter, AIA, Announces Three New Residential Projects
RENDERING: PRIVACY FOR TWO December 11, 2017 (Chapel Hill, NC) — Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, Architect, a full-service architecture firm based in Chapel Hill, NC, has announced three new residential projects, each with remarkably different aspirations. Big House for a Big Family: Arielle Schechter, principal and founder, describes one of her newest clients as a…
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INHABITAT: “Weathered steel and reclaimed materials blend a modern home into the woods.”
by Lisa Wang Raleigh-based Tonic Design completed a creative new home that plays with the contrast between old and new through the use of reclaimed and contemporary materials. Tucked into the forests of Durham, the Piedmont Retreat is a 3,800-square-foot single-family home that embraces the outdoors in its use of weathered materials and large cantilevered windows. Reclaimed materials,…
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AECCafe.com: “Award-winning LA Architecture Firm Relocates to Carrboro, North Carolina”
December 4, 2017 (Carrboro, NC) – Architect Doug Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, and environmental graphics designer Youn Choi — partners in life and in pod architecture + design (pod a+d) — have joined the flurry of businesses relocating to the Triangle region. They’ve moved their architectural firm from Los Angeles to Carrboro, where they’re currently…
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Award-winning L.A. Architecture Firm Relocates to Carrboro, NC
December 5, 2017 (Carrboro, NC) – Architect Doug Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+ (left), and environmental graphics designer Youn Choi (below left) — partners in life and in pod architecture + design (pod a+d) — have joined the flurry of businesses relocating to North Carolina’s Triangle region. They’ve moved their architectural firm from Los Angeles to Carrboro, where they’re currently…
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Tonic Design Partner Appointed to Raleigh Appearance Commission
The Raleigh City Council has appointed architect Katherine Hogan, AIA, co-owner of Tonic Design, to the Raleigh Appearance Commission. The City Council established The Appearance Commission in 1973 to provide guidance, advice, and recommendations regarding the visual quality and aesthetic characteristics of the City of Raleigh. The commission consists of 15 members, the majority of whom have special training…
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On The Boards: Arielle Condoret Schechter Designs A Modern Family Destination
Modernist architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, has a host of projects underway these days. Among the residential work taking shape in her home studio and office, high atop Stillhouse Bluff in Chapel Hill, is a Modern Cabin out in rural Orange County, North Carolina. A couple from San Francisco commissioned Schechter to design their Modern Cabin where one of their…
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CUSTOM BUILDER: “Backstory: Playing Both Sides”
A creative duo’s partnership is driven by client needs, site specifics, and school schedules (Photos: Tzu Chen) By Stacey Freed Masonry, glass, metal, concrete … these are the building materials that Vincent “Vinny” Petrarca and Katherine Hogan, AIA, owners of the firms Tonic Design and Tonic Construction, in Raleigh, N.C., favor. “These things last…
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Making History: Katherine Hogan, Vincent Petrarca Receive Kamphoefner Prize for Modern Architecture
The first husband-wife partnership Katherine Hogan, AIA, and Vincent Petrarca, partners in life and in the award-winning Raleigh firm Tonic Design, were honored to receive the 2017 Kamphoefner Prize at the AIA North Carolina Design Conference held in Wilmington September 13-15. Named for the founding dean of NC State University’s School (now College) of Design, Henry…
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Sir Walter Salutes Five Points Icon: Tonic Design receives 2017 Sir Walter Raleigh Award
1700 Glenwood Avenue before (bottom) and after (top). For transforming an odd, vacant eyesore into a gleaming glass, energy-efficient commercial building that deserves its place at the pinnacle of Raleigh’s Five Points intersection, Tonic Design principals Katherine Hogan, AIA, and Vincent Petrarca received a 2017 Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Community Appearance for their work on the building at…
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