Category: green architecture
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East of Edenton: Two Homes Tours Highlight Young Firm’s Pioneering Project in Downtown Raleigh
AIA Triangle and NC Modernist Houses tour-goers discovered Raleigh Architecture Co.’s innovative urban infill houses in an old neighborhood. “Hungry Neck,” an old, established neighborhood just east of Downtown Raleigh, is not an expected destination for homes tours. A mixed-use neighborhood, most of the houses there were built between 1900 and 1940 and many of…
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North Carolina Modernist Houses Announces the 2015 Matsumoto Prize Jury
Nationally known architects to judge annual Modernist house competition North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH), the award-winning non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, and promoting Modernist residential design across the state, has announced the 2015 George Matsumoto Prize Jury. The 2015 jury includes MacArthur Fellow Jeanne Gang, FAIA, Studio Gang Architects, Chicago; Harry Bates, Bates Masi…
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Webcast Focuses On “Riding The Red Hot Healthy Home Trend”
Chapel Hill architect Arielle Schechter, AIA, helps builders embrace high-performance houses. Should homebuilders produce houses that are as “21st century” as cell phones and automobiles? TecHomeBuilder.com believes they should. From sustainability technologies to CO2 monitoring, the website’s mission is to help homebuilders and designers learn how to create high-performance houses by including high-tech features both efficiently and profitably.…
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Uber-Green House in Chatham County Is Finalist For USGBC Award
Recognizing systematic integration of sustainability and LEED standards. The Happy Meadows Courtyard House, a thoroughly sustainable Modern residence designed by Chapel Hill architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA is a finalist for the 2014 Green Gala Sustainable Business Awards in the Residential category. The US Green Building Council / North Carolina chapter selects and presents the…
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“Appetite4Architecture” Dinner Features Special Guest Frank Harmon
The first in a series of dinners sponsored by Triangle Modernist Houses. January 18, 2012 (Raleigh, NC) – Frank Harmon FAIA, founder and principal of the award-winning firm Frank Harmon Architect PA in Raleigh, will be a featured guest at the first 2012 “Appetite4Architecture” dinner on Tuesday, January 31, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in 18…
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Frank Harmon Discusses The New AIA NC Center for Architecture and Design in New Video
Harmon and landscape architect Gregg Bleam talk about the design process. December 6, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — Architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, of Frank Harmon Architect PA, recently posted a new video on his website (www.frankharmon.com) in which he and landscape architect Gregg Bleam discuss the design process behind the soon-to-be-completed AIA NC Center for Architecture…
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VMZINC® Enjoys Record Attendance at Expo CIHAC
November 21, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — If attendance at the VMZINC® booth at Expo CIHAC last month is any indication, Mexico will be a thriving market for Umicore Building Products, as the global company anticipates. Expo CIHAC is the premier event in Mexico and Latin America for the building, construction, and housing industries. Held at…
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Umicore Building Products Holds Open House in New Headquarters
November 15, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – Umicore Building Products USA, manufacturer of VMZINC® architectural zinc, held an open house together with its parent company Umicore USA in its new North American headquarters at 3600 Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh, North Carolina, on November 1. Umicore invited site managers from North America as well as corporate executives…
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Umicore Building Products Wins Project of Distinction Award
American Builders Quarterly praises Gateway Center project. November 2, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — American Builders Quarterly magazine (ABQ) has chosen the Gateway Center at Westchester Community College in Valhalla, New York, as a Project of Distinction in its 2011 Building Excellence Awards. Umicore Building Products USA (UBP) entered the 70,000-square-foot project in ABQ’s annual competition…
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