Category: construction
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Carrboro Architects To Complete $15 Million Project in Louisville before Derby Day
pod architecture+ design finishes eagerly anticipated Rabbit Hole Distillery. From their modest studio inside the old train depot on Main Street in Carrboro, award-winning architect Doug Pierson, AIA, partner/wife, designer Youn Choi, and their team at pod architecture + design are focused on making sure their $15 million project in Louisville, Kentucky – the 55,000-square-foot Rabbit Hole Distilling facility and campus — is…
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Steel-Clad House in Duke Forest Receives 2018 AIA Triangle Honor Award
Photography © Tzu Chen Photography “Piedmont Retreat,” a modern, single-family home clad in Cor-Ton® steel, earned for Tonic Design of Raleigh, NC, one of only three Honor awards — and the only residential design among the three — in the 2018 AIA Triangle Design Awards. The awards were presented March 22 during a gala event at the Contemporary…
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LOUISVILLE COURIER JOURNAL: “A grand opening for this new distillery in NuLu is set for Kentucky Derby night”
By Kirby Adams We don’t know who but we do know where — 2018 Kentucky Derby celebrities may choose to party after the races at a new distillery in downtown Louisville. he Rabbit Hole Distillery, 711 E. Jefferson St., will celebrate its grand opening Saturday, May 5 with an invitation-only event… …The new multimillion-dollar distillery in Louisville’s historic NuLu neighborhood is designed by award-winning architect…
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LOUISVILLE BUSINESS FIRST: “First Look: Plenty of progress to be seen around Rabbit Hole Distillery”
By David A. Mann Rabbit Hole Distillery is taking shape. The facility has been under construction on Jefferson Street, near Clay Street, since late last year. It’s still months away from completion, but many of the key elements, including the still, are in place today. The distillery is expected to have a grand opening on…
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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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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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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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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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Trig Modern Announces…
Architects and designers create cool, modern cat houses for an auction to benefit SAFE Haven For Cats. Trig Modern design center and showroom in Raleigh announces “The Cat’s Meow,” an auction of modern, professionally designed houses for cats to benefit SAFE Haven for Cats, a non-profit, no-kill shelter in Raleigh dedicated to finding homes for homeless cats and kittens. The…
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