Category: modern architecture
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University of Kansas Welcomes Frank Harmon as Distinguished Guest, Keynote Speaker
For Studio 804’s 20th anniversary celebration in March 2015. North Carolina-based architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, will be the distinguished guest and keynote speaker when the University of Kansas’s School of Architecture, Design & Planning holds its celebration of Studio 804’s 20th anniversary on March 27-28, 2015. The celebration will include speakers of international stature who will support the theme “[Re]…
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The Raleigh Architecture Co. Hires A New Project Manager
Matthew Fornaro joins the design-build team. Robby Johnston, AIA, and Craig Kerins, AIA, partners in The Raleigh Architecture Company in Raleigh, announce that Matthew Fornaro has joined their team as a project manager. The Raleigh Architecture Company (RACo) is a full-service, design-build-fabrication firm known for modern architecture and craftsman quality construction. The firm maintains both its office…
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NCMH Announces 2015 Matsumoto Prize for Modernist Residential Design
Sponsored exclusively this year by Leland Little Auctions. North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) announces that the naming sponsor for the 2015 George Matsumoto Prize for North Carolina Modernist residential design is Leland Little Auctions, the Southeast’s premier estate auction gallery, based in Hillsborough, NC. NCMH created the Matsumoto Prize in 2012 to honor George Matsumoto, FAIA, one of the founding…
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HIP ON HILLSBOROUGH: The Raleigh Architecture Co. completes two commercial projects side-by-side.
The Raleigh Architecture Company (RACo), a young design-build firm with numerous projects in downtown Raleigh, has completed two more commercial up-fit projects that just happen to sit side-by-side in a multi-tenant building on the 400 block of Hillsborough Street: State of Beer, a beer bar and bottle shop, and Runologie, a specialty sporting goods store for serious runners.…
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Ambiente To Host February’s “Thirst4Architecture”
A networking event for fans of Modernist design. The Ambiente Collection, a showroom of contemporary and modernist furniture in Raleigh, will host the “Thirst4Architecture,” a networking event sponsored by North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) and Emilie Huin/501 Realty, on Friday, February 27, from 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public, T4A events are opportunities for…
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Indoor-Outdoor Living — Literally
To accommodate a tight budget, architect Frank Harmon made half of this modern coastal home open-air. Award-winning Raleigh architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, recently completed a single-family house on South Carolina’s St. Helena Island that solved tight budget constraints in an unusual way: To keep costs down, 50 percent of this 1600-square-foot Modern house is composed entirely…
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Chapel Hill Architect Introduces “Micropolis” House Plans
Architect-designed building plans for tiny Modern homes. Growing up in North Carolina, architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, of Chapel Hill, NC, saw a problem: The mobile homes scattered or clumped together across North Carolina filled a great need for small housing options but they had no design integrity, they were usually made of poor materials,…
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New Design Book Features Three Houses By Frank Harmon, FAIA
Representing Southern architects whose styles vary as much as the region. Contemporary Southern Homes, a new hardcover book published by Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, features three Modern houses designed by Raleigh architect Frank Harmon, FAIA: the Low Country house in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; the Strickland-Ferris house in Raleigh, NC; and Harmon’s own home, also in…
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NCMH Opens 2015 With Back-To-Back Events In Downtown Durham
A film on Santiago Calatrava’s “Turning Torso” building and a networking event at Kontek. North Carolina Modernist Houses (NCMH) will open 2015 with two back-to-back Durham events: a special screening of a film about world-renowned architect Santiago Calatrava and a “Thirst4Architecture” (T4A) design networking event at Kontek Systems. On Wednesday, January 7, at 7:30 pm, the NCMH MODTriangle…
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Duke University’s Ocean Conservation Center Achieves LEED Platinum
The highest Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification. Raleigh architect Frank Harmon, FAIA, principal of Frank Harmon Architect PA, recently learned that the Ocean Conservation Center (OCC) his firm designed in Beaufort, NC, for Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment Marine Laboratory has achieved LEED Platinum certification. Platinum is the highest Leadership in…
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