Category: design-build
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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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Tonic Design Selected for WCPSS Master Professional Services Agreement
Blueplate PR client: Tonic Design To provide architecture services for Wake County public schools. Tonic Design, a multi-award-winning architectural firm based in Raleigh, NC, has qualified to provide architecture services to the Wake County Public School System, the largest school district in North Carolina, under the WCPSS’s Master Professional Services Agreements. To qualify, Tonic Design…
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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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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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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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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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NEWS & OBSERVER HOME & GARDEN: “The 2016 winners in the annual George Matsumoto Prize modernist house contest”
BY ANDREA WEIGL On Thursday, N.C. Modernist Houses announced the winners of its annual statewide modernist residential design contest. The big winner of the 2016 George Matsumoto Prize contest is Will Alphin of Alphin Design Build. Alphin took home the first-place prize in the juried competition for a four-level house in Raleigh’s Cameron Park neighborhood.…
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