Category: historic preservation
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Charleston Architect Serves On AIA/Tennessee Awards Jury
August 24, 2009 (MEMPHIS, TN) — South Carolina architect Whitney Powers, AIA, principal and president of the award-winning firm Studio A, Inc., in Charleston, was among the jurors who recently selected nine award winners out of 97 entries during the American Institute of Architects/Tennessee’s 2009 Design Awards program. A LEED-certified practitioner, Powers brought her expertise…
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Durham Modernist House Tour: Jewel In The Woods
August 7, 2009 (DURHAM, NC) – Triangle Modernist Houses.com (TMH), the educational archive for modernist residential design in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area of NC, will host tours of the Christine and Michael Coates residence in Rougemont, NC, on Saturday, October 3, from 1-3:30 p.m. Tucked away on a 10-acre site just north of Durham, the…
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Putting The Ease in Easements: How To Save Modernist Houses From Future Bulldozers
July 22, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) — Property easements aren’t sexy, but they are important, especially when they concern property with historic value. Easements protect historic structures by assuring that the property’s intrinsic values will be preserved through subsequent ownership. To help the general public understand how easements work, what they protect, their advantages and disadvantages,…
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Triangle Modernist Houses. com Awards Its First Research Grant
July 15, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) — David Hill, assistant professor architecture at North Carolina State University’s College of Design in Raleigh, has received Triangle Modernist Houses’ first Macon Smith Research Grant. Triangle Modernist Houses.com is the online entity of Triangle Modernist Archives, Inc., an award-winning nonprofit which preserves, advocates, and builds community around modernist residential…
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Blueplate PR Goes Modern with Triangle Modernist Houses.com
July 7, 2009 (RALEIGH, NC) – The Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill “Triangle” region of North Carolina has the third-largest concentration of modernist houses in the nation, bested only by Los Angeles and Chicago. This fact surprises most people, even those who live in the Triangle. But not TriangleModernistHouses.com (TMH), an award-winning nonprofit which preserves, advocates, and builds…
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Expanding Broadband Could Be Tourist Boon For Rural Regions
May 4, 2009 (CHARLESTON, SC) – The new economic Stimulus Package’s proposed spending on broadband Internet access could prove to be a huge boon for recreational tourism and economic development in rural regions that could greatly benefit from tourists’ dollars, according to recreation planner Edwin Gardner of Heritage Strategy Group in Charleston, South Carolina. In…
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Recreation Planners Use Technology To Get Public Participation
April 9, 2009 (CHARLESTON, SC) — “A 21st century way to engage the public directly in recreation and conservation decisions” – that’s how planner Edwin S. Gardner of Heritage Strategy Group describes the approach he and his team are taking to make sure the public is keenly involved in the 2010-2020 Tennessee State Recreation Plan.…
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Slow Food & A Small Footprint: Charleston Architect Serves Up “Green” Options
March 30, 2009 (CHARLESTON, SC) – Want to eat and live well in harmony with the natural environment? “Green” architect Whitney Powers, AIA, of Studio A, Inc, in Charleston served up solutions for reducing your home’s carbon footprint during Slow Food Charleston’s “Spring Pot Luck” dinner held Sunday, March 29, at the Circular Congregational Church…
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Tennessee Selects Studio A, Inc., For Long-Range Rec Plan
March 25, 2009 (CHARLESTON, SC) — Heritage Strategy Group, a subsidiary of Studio A., Inc. an architectural firm in Charleston, has inked a contract from the State of Tennessee to prepare that state’s 2010-2020 Tennessee State Recreation Plan. The contract includes the state’s 2020 Land and Water Vision Plan as well as the five-year Statewide…
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Charleston’s Studio A, Heritage Strategy Group Join Forces
March 9, 2009 (CHARLESTON, SC) – Studio A, Inc., an award-winning architecture firm in Charleston, SC, has joined forces with Heritage Strategy Group to bring a specialized planning component to the firm’s offerings. Heritage Strategy Group is a planning initiative, headed by Edwin Gardner, to develop recreational areas and scenic byways in a manner that…
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