Category: Blueplate PR clients
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Arielle Condoret Schechter’s Award-Winning Haw River House Open for Public Touring May 3, 2025
(Chatham County, NC) — Perched above a rocky knoll overlooking the Haw River in Pittsboro, the Matsumoto Prize-winning, net-zero Haw River House in Chatham County will be open for public touring on Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This special tour has been organized by George Smart, CEO of NCModernist, the nonprofit…
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ODE TO THE I-BEAN
Architect Doug Pierson addresses the steel industry on opening night of the 2025 AISC conference. His passion for metal as an expressive wall choice as well as a durable, environmentally sustainable structural material has remained throughout his career, said Blueplate PR client Doug Pierson (AIA, LEED AP, BD+C), co-founder/partner and design principal at pod architecture…
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Blueplate PR client Arielle Schechter Makes FORBES’ 2025 “Top 200 Residential Architects in America” List
Chapel Hill architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, known for the comfortably modern, energy-efficient, net-zero houses she’s designed all over North Carolina’s “Triangle” region, is honored to have been selected for Forbes Magazine’s first-ever list of “America’s Top 200 Residential Architects.” Forbes announced its inaugural residential architects list on the magazine’s website. Previously, Forbes’ senior architecture contributor Richard Olson…
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WALTER MAGAZINE Takes Readers Into Frank Harmon’s Garden on a Typical Saturday Morning…
by Addie Ladner | photography by Liz Condo Behind a muted pink stone wall adorned with jasmine, rich conversations and hot coffee flow. Tall, breezy live oaks shade a sandy courtyard area populated with miscellaneous folding chairs and a round table. Bluebirds sing, crinum lilies bloom and velvety white gardenias perfume the air. Here’s where…
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News & Observer features Blueplate PR client Arielle Condoret Schechter: “She started out as her father’s draftsperson. She now runs her own architect firm”
BY CHANTAL ALLAM Arielle Condoret Schechter grew up studying cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. As the daughter of the late renowned local architect Jon Condoret, she trained at NC State’s School of Design and got her start working as her father’s draftsperson in the 1980s. For decades, she sketched by his side…
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A Truly Modern, Net-Zero Farmhouse designed by Blueplate PR client Arielle Schechter, AIA, is featured in WALLPAPER*:
“This low-energy farmhouse is a net zero architectural re-set for a Californian client, an East Coast relocation for a more engaged and low-key lifestyle” By Jonathan Bell North Carolina, where this low-energy farmhouse is located, is a long way from California; but that was the scope of the move made by Arielle Schechter’s client when…
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In West Asheville, a 1930s Bungalow is Repurposed into Three Modern, Stylish Apartments
Designers/owners fuse authentic historic charm with modern interior architecture to create a multi-family residence befitting its cool community. PRESS RELEASE — At 818 Haywood Road in West Asheville, architect Doug Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, and experiential designer Youn Choi have completely gutted the two-level, 1930s bungalow there. Now the husband-and-wife team behind the award-winning…
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Transnational Couple’s Net-Zero “Dream Home” to be Featured on Fall 2023 Modapalooza Tour
When transnational couple Satish Reddy (India) and Ping Yu (China) decided to relocate from California and Texas to Chapel Hill, NC, they dreamed of building their own custom-designed, net zero house to reduce their new home’s carbon footprint and environmental impact. To make this dream come true, they turned to Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, the award-winning, Chapel Hill-based…
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With Champagne Metal & Linear Light:
Chapel Hill Design Firm and Louisville Distillery Receive Category’s Top Prize in 2022 Metal News Construction Awards Metal Construction News magazine (MCN), a national trade publication for the metal industry, has announced that the new Tank Expansion Building on Rabbit Hole Distillery’s campus in downtown Louisville, KY, designed by Chapel Hill, NC’s pod architecture + design…