Category: modern architecture
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Triangle Modernist Houses Hosts Tour of 1959 Carter Williams House
“Blue Haven” will be open to the public for one day. July 6, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — The 1959 Carter Williams House Tour, designed by prolific Raleigh architect F. Carter Williams, FAIA, for his family, with landscape design by Dick Bell, FASLA, will be open for public touring on Saturday, July 23, from 10 a.m.…
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Triangle Modernist Houses’ Founder Addresses NCSU Class
George Smart will present talk, house tour for College of Design Students July 4, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – George Smart, founder and director of the award-winning non-profit organization Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), will be a guest lecturer for a summer class in the NC State University College of Design on July 5th. On July 6th,…
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Kenneth Hobgood Architects Anticipates Completion of Glass Villa in Kuwait
The residence will be a showcase of modern design, special engineering and meticulous construction. June 24, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) — Construction is nearing completion on Villa Al Bahar, a modern, 22,000-square-foot, four-level glass house in Kuwait City, Kuwait, designed by of Kenneth Hobgood Architects of Raleigh, NC. Designing and building a glass and steel villa…
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George Smart Receives 2011 Preservation Durham Advocacy Award
Triangle Modernist Houses’ founder and director praised at awards ceremony. June 20, 2011 (Durham, NC) — George Smart, founder and director of Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving and promoting modernist residential design, is a 2011 recipient of Preservation Durham’s Advocacy Award for individual effort. The 2011 Preservation Awards were…
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Kenneth Hobgood Architects Sweeps Residential Category of AIA Triangle Awards
Raleigh firm receives the only awards for houses submitted in the 2011 design awards program. June 8, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – Kenneth E. Hobgood Architects of Raleigh received both of only two Merit Awards for residential architecture presented recently by the American Institute of Architects’ Triangle Section in its 2011 Design Awards. The firm’s award-winning…
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Triangle Modernist Houses Takes Its Message To Real Estate Agents
Founder George Smart Addresses the Durham Regional Association of Realtors. June 8, 2011 (Durham, NC) — George Smart, founder and director of the award-winning non-profit Triangle Modernist Houses (TMH), will present “Mayberry Modernism: North Carolina’s Modernist Legacy” to a meeting of the Durham Regional Association of REALTORS® on Thursday, June 23, at 2 p.m. “Mayberry…
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Pinecote
By Frank Harmon, FAIA Few building forms are more familiar than the one-story gabled roof. The earliest Greek temples feature this form, as do 19th century tobacco warehouses, churches, and government buildings. Our own state Capitol in Raleigh, designed by Town and Davis in 1840, is adorned by the upright columns and V-shaped roof of…
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Cool Without AC: Dewees Island House Featured in Mother Earth News
Vacation home by Whitney Powers, AIA, one of three projects selected. May 24, 2011 (Charleston, SC) – A sustainable beach house on Dewees Island, SC, designed by Whitney Powers, AIA, of Studio A, Inc., in Charleston, is one of three houses selected by Robyn Griggs Lawrence whose blog “Natural Home & Garden” is carried in…
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Frank Harmon Architect PA Makes “Architect 50” List For Third Straight Year
The small Raleigh, NC, firm ranks 21st this year among the top 50 firms in the nation in terms of design quality, sustainability ethos, and profitability. May 16, 2011 (Raleigh, NC) – For the third consecutive year, Frank Harmon Architect PA has made Architect magazine’s “Architect 50” list of architectural firms from across the nation,…
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Triangle Modernist Houses.com Debunks Modernist Houses Myths
Founder/director George Smart counters “flat-roof” prejudice. May 12, 2011 (Durham, NC) – George Smart of Durham, NC, has spent the past four years working to document, preserve, and promote Modernist residential design through his award-winning website Triangle Modernist Houses.com. Modernist residential design typically features open plans, extensive use of glass to blur the line between…
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