Category: sustainability
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DWELL: “The Mason-Grabell ‘Beech’ House by Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA
Anne and Bruce, the clients for this project, had recently relocated to Chapel Hill from Florida. They considered themselves “climate refugees” who no longer wanted to live through the yearly hurricanes they were experiencing in Florida. They selected Arielle Schechter for her modernist style, then agree to ramp up the design “Net-Zero Ready” in accordance…
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Smart, Stylish, Sustainable: House in Beech Forest Featured on Fall Modapalooza Tour
The name Arielle Condoret Schechter has become synonymous in the Triangle with smart, stylish, Net Zero Passive houses whose modern horizontal forms appear as comfortable on their sites as the forests that often surround them. Fans of this Chapel Hill architect’s work were pleased to learn that her most recently completed house — this…
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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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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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DESIGN MILK: “Venice House is a California House with a Sloping Trapezoidal Roof”
By Caroline Williamson Among the tightly packed lots in Venice, California, the Venice House is a three-story, energy-efficient residence topped off with a unique, sloping trapezoidal roof. The beach house was designed by pod architecture + design (pod a+d), who also happen to be the owners, and it spans 1390-square-feet, which proved challenging as they had to build…
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Carrboro Architects To Complete $15 Million Project in Louisville before Derby Day
pod architecture+ design finishes eagerly anticipated Rabbit Hole Distillery. From their modest studio inside the old train depot on Main Street in Carrboro, award-winning architect Doug Pierson, AIA, partner/wife, designer Youn Choi, and their team at pod architecture + design are focused on making sure their $15 million project in Louisville, Kentucky – the 55,000-square-foot Rabbit Hole Distilling facility and campus — is…
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For The Third Consecutive Year, Chapel Hill Architect Arielle Condoret Schechter is Awarded “Best of Houzz” for Client Satisfaction
Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, of Chapel Hill, NC, has been voted by Houzz.com as a winner of a Best of Houzz 2018 award, marking the third consecutive year she has received this award from the popular worldwide online community. From among more than one million active home building, remodeling, and design industry professionals associated with Houzz, Schechter won in…
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THE MODERN SHELTER: “MidZENtury paradise”
By Sara Mingote Hi there, welcome! Please, make yourself at home. This is the first post in the blog, and also a very special one. This is the residence of Arielle Condoret Schechter, architect and designer, a space with great character but serene, filled with natural light and good decisions. With a mid-century modern inclination and…
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METAL ARCHITECTURE: “A Modern Retreat”
Corten steel helps residence blend into surroundings seamlessly By Marcy Marro, Editor Located in a wooded cul-de-sac neighborhood in Durham, N.C., this single-family residence, nicknamed Piedmont Retreat, is wrapped in vertical Corten steel panels facing the street, and vast expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass and cantilevered windows in the back that overlook the surrounding forest. The owners reached out to Raleigh, N.C.-based Tonic Design…
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Works In Progress: Chapel Hill Architect Arielle Schechter, AIA, Announces Three New Residential Projects
RENDERING: PRIVACY FOR TWO December 11, 2017 (Chapel Hill, NC) — Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, Architect, a full-service architecture firm based in Chapel Hill, NC, has announced three new residential projects, each with remarkably different aspirations. Big House for a Big Family: Arielle Schechter, principal and founder, describes one of her newest clients as a…
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