Category: modern architecture
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Chapel Hill Firm Wins AIA Kentucky Award for Modern Bourbon Distillery in Downtown Louisville
In a ceremony in Cincinnati, Ohio, last week, Doug Pierson, AIA, and Youn Choi, partners at pod architecture + design (pod a+d) in Chapel Hill, NC, received their second design award for Rabbit Hole Distillery, the metal, glass, and blackened wood structure they designed in downtown Louisville, KY, that the president of the Kentucky Distillers Association called “a modern…
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Hybrid Design Firm Moves Into Downtown Chapel Hill
On August 21, pod architecture + design (pod a+d), the award-winning design firm previously located in Carrboro, moved its multi-disciplinary studio from the historic Depot on that town’s Main Street to offices at 201-A North Columbia Street in Chapel Hill. The move reflects the partners’ desire to establish their studio in the more nationally known Chapel Hill…
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Leading Design Firms Team Up to Propose Elegant Concept for J.W. Rutledge Distillery
pod architecture + design, Luckett & Farley present scheme to investors at special event During a special event held recently in downtown Louisville, KY, pod architecture + design (pod a+d) of Carrboro, NC, and Luckett & Farley architects and engineers of Louisville, presented a surprising concept for a modern, environmentally sustainable, mid-sized distillery to an…
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Carrboro Architect Douglas Pierson Appointed to the AIA Triangle Board of Directors
Douglas Pierson, AIA, LEED AP, BD+C, co-founder and a principal designer of pod architecture + design (pod a+d), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Triangle section, American Institute of Architects (AIAT) for a two-year term. The AIA Triangle’s mission is “to serve its members and the Triangle community by enhancing and…
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RALEIGH MAGAZINE: “A Smooth Transition”
Blueplate PR client: Tonic Design by Jane Porter | photo by Keith Isaacs When old design meets new, there’s often an element of surprise to the final result. For a residence in Raleigh’s Historic Cameron Park neighborhood, architect Katherine Hogan and designer Vinny Petrarca, the principals of Tonic Design, created an air of the unexpected…
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METAL CONSTRUCTION NEWS: “Dynamic Distillery” – Rabbit Hole takes the Grand Award
Blueplate PR client: pod architecture + design LLC In the 2018 Metal Construction News Building & Roofing Awards By Mark Robins, Senior Editor Form follows process. This is contemporary bourbon maker, founder and CEO of Rabbit Hole Distilling, Kaveh Zamanian’s vision for life and for his Rabbit Hole Distillery manufacturing building in downtown Louisville, Ky.…
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Tonic Design Selected for WCPSS Master Professional Services Agreement
Blueplate PR client: Tonic Design To provide architecture services for Wake County public schools. Tonic Design, a multi-award-winning architectural firm based in Raleigh, NC, has qualified to provide architecture services to the Wake County Public School System, the largest school district in North Carolina, under the WCPSS’s Master Professional Services Agreements. To qualify, Tonic Design…
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on the boards: pod architecture + design partners reveal plans for their modern house on a hillside
Blueplate PR client: pod architecture + design LLC Scale model of Carrboro House by pod architecture + design Eager to plant their roots more deeply into their new hometown, experiential graphics designer Youn Choi and award-winning architect Doug Pierson, AIA, partners in life and founding partners of pod architecture + design (pod a+d) in Carrboro, have designed…
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INHABITAT: “Micropolis custom net-zero home generates all its own energy”
Blueplate PR client: Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA By Lucy Wang When Cheryl and Ken Serdar saw one of the homes belonging to Micropolis®, a collection of sustainable and contemporary house plans designed by architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, they knew they wanted a custom home based on the original 950-square-foot “Happy Family” plan. Taking into account the…
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Custom Home online: “Hillcrest House Addition: An Innovative Approach to Old + New”
PROJECT DESCRIPTION The project involved designing a modern, 1500-square-foot addition for a two-story, red brick, Georgian Revival-style house built in 1916 in a historic inner-city neighborhood with narrow lots and minimal set-backs between houses. The addition would become the primary hub of activity for a growing family and an ideal space for entertaining. Programmatically, it…
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