Category: modern architecture
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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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Salisbury Couple To Host Reception for Preservationists
Event to follow “Mayberry Modernism” at Historic Salisbury Station May 18, 2010 (SALISBURY, NC) – Anne and Marc Hoffman of Salisbury will host a cocktail reception for architectural historian George Smart, members of the Historic Salisbury Foundation, and other invited guests immediately following Smart’s presentation at the Historic Salisbury Station on Thursday, May 27th. Smart,…
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Dick Bell, Brian Shawcroft Headline Final “Appetite 4 Architecture” Dinner & Discussion
May 18, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) –Two North Carolina masters of modern design – landscape architect Dick Bell, FASLA, and architect Brian Shawcroft, AIA – will headline the final “Appetite 4 Architecture” dinner and discussion on Tuesday, June 1, at Solas restaurant on Glenwood South in Raleigh. Appetite 4 Architecture (A4A) is sponsored by Triangle Modernist…
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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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Architectural Historian George Smart To Present “Mayberry Modernism” in Salisbury
May 12, 2010 (SALISBURY, NC) — What’s North Carolina’s best-kept secret? The Triangle region has the third largest concentration of Modernist houses in the nation, behind Los Angeles and Chicago — literally hundreds of mid-century gems thanks to the Modernist influence of the North Carolina State University College of Design’s faculty and students over 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…
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George Smart To Present “Mayberry Modernism” in Wilmington
April 20, 2010 (WILMINGTON, NC) – George Smart, founder of Triangle Modernist Houses.com, likes to say that the vast collection of modernist houses in the Triangle area is one of North Carolina’s best-kept secrets. That secret is rapidly becoming not-so-secret, however, as he continues his series of speaking engagements across the state. On Monday, May…
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