Category: green architecture
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Triangle Modernist Houses Presents “Fairmount” Tour
The Joseph Rowand Residence will be on public tour for the first time. July 5, 2010 (CHAPEL HILL, NC) – “Fairmount,” a 4500-square-foot house designed by Chapel Hill architect Phil Szostak, FAIA, for Somerhill Gallery owner Joseph Rowand, will be open for public touring on Saturday, July 24, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. The…
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Whitney Powers Named One of Charleston’s “Most Influential”
Studio A’s president makes Charleston Home & Design’s 2010 list. July 1, 2010 (CHARLESTON, SC) – Architect Whitney Powers, AIA, founding principal and president of Studio A, Inc., is featured in the summer edition of Charleston Home & Design magazine as one of the historic city’s “Most Influential Home and Design Professionals” of 2010. Charleston…
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2010 Modernist Home Tour Destinations Unveiled
Triangle Modernist Houses’ Raleigh Tour features eight plus one iconic office building. June 15, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses today unveiled the eight architecturally remarkable homes and one commercial space that comprise the “TMH Modern 2010,” the non-profit organization’s 13th home tour, on Saturday, September 25, from 1- 430 p.m. in Raleigh. The…
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Frank Harmon, FAIA, To Discuss Building with Craft at HandMade Expo in Asheville
Celebrated architect advocates collaboration between architects and artisans. June 3, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) — Architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of the award-winning firm Frank Harmon Architect PA in Raleigh, will present a talk entitled “On Building with Craft” at HandMade: The Western North Carolina Craft, Architecture & Design Expo in Asheville on Friday, June 25,…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Announces 2010 Modernist Home Tour
Event to feature nine modernist houses in Raleigh from the 1950s to today. May 24, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) — What’s Raleigh’s best-kept secret? The Triangle has the third largest concentration of Modernist houses in the country, behind LA and Chicago — literally hundreds of exceptional houses — due to the Modernist influence of the NCSU…
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National Journal Spotlights Small North Carolina Project
Merchants Millpond Visitors Centers captures ARCHITECT magazine’s attention. May 21, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) – “Even small buildings can have an important, and positive, environmental impact,” writes architecture critic Vernon Mays in an article on the Merchants Millpond Visitor Center in Gatesville, NC, for Architect magazine, one of the nation’s leading professional architecture journals. The Visitors…
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Regional Modernism in the South: Frank Harmon To Address AIA Jacksonville
May 17, 2010 (JACKSONVILLE, FL) – The importance of “place” in the process of creating innovative, sustainable and regionally appropriate contemporary design will be the theme for the lecture by architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, during AIA Jacksonville’s Design & Honor Awards Gala on Friday, May 21, at 5:30 p.m., at the Downtown Library, 303 Laura…
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2010 List Released: Frank Harmon Architect PA Ranks 13th Among The Nation’s Top 50
Frank Harmon Architect PA moves up in Architect Magazine’s annual list of best firms. May 12, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) – Frank Harmon Architect PA, a multi-award-winning firm based in Raleigh, NC and recognized nationally as a leader in innovative, modern, and regionally inspired “green” architecture, has placed 13th on Architect magazine’s 2010 list of the…
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A Different Kind of “Love Triangle”
April 29, 2010 (DURHAM, NC) – Recent Past Preservation Network (RPPN), the national non-profit organization that promotes the preservation of modern architecture, has published an eight-page feature called “Love Triangle” in the April RPPN Bulletin, their online magazine. But in this version, there’s no steamy sex. Tiger Woods, Sandra Bullock, nor any other celebrities were…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Announces “ModShop” Day Trip
Destinations: Design Within Reach, Ikea, and a Modernist house tour April 24, 2010 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH) has just announced another not-to-be-missed opportunity for modernist homeowners and anyone who loves modern interior design: “ModShop,” a group excursion to Charlotte, NC, to shop at Design Within Reach and Ikea, and to tour an…