Tag: architecture
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Arielle Condoret Schechter’s Award-Winning Haw River House Open for Public Touring May 3, 2025
(Chatham County, NC) — Perched above a rocky knoll overlooking the Haw River in Pittsboro, the Matsumoto Prize-winning, net-zero Haw River House in Chatham County will be open for public touring on Saturday, May 3, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This special tour has been organized by George Smart, CEO of NCModernist, the nonprofit…
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ODE TO THE I-BEAN
Architect Doug Pierson addresses the steel industry on opening night of the 2025 AISC conference. His passion for metal as an expressive wall choice as well as a durable, environmentally sustainable structural material has remained throughout his career, said Blueplate PR client Doug Pierson (AIA, LEED AP, BD+C), co-founder/partner and design principal at pod architecture…
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Blueplate PR client Arielle Schechter Makes FORBES’ 2025 “Top 200 Residential Architects in America” List
Chapel Hill architect Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, known for the comfortably modern, energy-efficient, net-zero houses she’s designed all over North Carolina’s “Triangle” region, is honored to have been selected for Forbes Magazine’s first-ever list of “America’s Top 200 Residential Architects.” Forbes announced its inaugural residential architects list on the magazine’s website. Previously, Forbes’ senior architecture contributor Richard Olson…
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News & Observer features Blueplate PR client Arielle Condoret Schechter: “She started out as her father’s draftsperson. She now runs her own architect firm”
BY CHANTAL ALLAM Arielle Condoret Schechter grew up studying cubist artists like Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. As the daughter of the late renowned local architect Jon Condoret, she trained at NC State’s School of Design and got her start working as her father’s draftsperson in the 1980s. For decades, she sketched by his side…
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A Truly Modern, Net-Zero Farmhouse designed by Blueplate PR client Arielle Schechter, AIA, is featured in WALLPAPER*:
“This low-energy farmhouse is a net zero architectural re-set for a Californian client, an East Coast relocation for a more engaged and low-key lifestyle” By Jonathan Bell North Carolina, where this low-energy farmhouse is located, is a long way from California; but that was the scope of the move made by Arielle Schechter’s client when…
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Raleigh Couple Rescues Midcentury Modern Gem from Certain Demolition: Matsumoto House Will Be Moved Saturday, January 20, 2024
PRESS RELEASE — The 1954 Midcentury Modern house at 606 Transylvania Avenue, Raleigh, designed by internationally renowned architect George Matsumoto for Bill and Betty Weber and once threatened with demolition, will begin its seven-mile journey to a new location on Saturday, January 20, at 6 a.m. The destination: an empty lot on Delmont Street immediately next door to…
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Transnational Couple’s Net-Zero “Dream Home” to be Featured on Fall 2023 Modapalooza Tour
When transnational couple Satish Reddy (India) and Ping Yu (China) decided to relocate from California and Texas to Chapel Hill, NC, they dreamed of building their own custom-designed, net zero house to reduce their new home’s carbon footprint and environmental impact. To make this dream come true, they turned to Arielle Condoret Schechter, AIA, the award-winning, Chapel Hill-based…
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Public Voting Opens for 2023 Matsumoto Prize
North Carolina’s highest honor for Modernist residential architecture. June 19, 2023 (DURHAM, NC) — Public voting is now open at NCMHCOMPETITIONS.ORG to select the best modernist house among 19 submitted from across the state in the 2023 George Matsumoto Prize, the annual design awards program hosted by NCModernist and sponsored by Fitch Lumber / MARVIN.…
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With Champagne Metal & Linear Light:
Chapel Hill Design Firm and Louisville Distillery Receive Category’s Top Prize in 2022 Metal News Construction Awards Metal Construction News magazine (MCN), a national trade publication for the metal industry, has announced that the new Tank Expansion Building on Rabbit Hole Distillery’s campus in downtown Louisville, KY, designed by Chapel Hill, NC’s pod architecture + design…
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Carrboro Hillside House Wins a Jury Award in 2022 Matsumoto Prize Competition
(CARRBORO, NC) – “Hillside House,” the modern, metal-clad home designed by architect Doug Pierson, AIA, and designer Youn Choi of pod architecture + design for their own family of four, received a prestigious Jury Award during the 2022 George Matsumoto Prize competition recognizing excellence in modernist residential design. Leland Little Auctions in Hillsborough hosted this year’s awards ceremony…
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