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50 Years of Modernism
Triangle Modernist Houses held its inaugural Modernist Mini-Tour on May 17th in Durham. The tour featured three houses designed by three of North Carolina’s prominent modernist architects. Spanning fifty years of design, the public was treated to a glimpse of the past and present of modernism in North Carolina. Click through for recap and images…
College of Design Preps for 60th Anniversary
Manual Bromberg circa 1954 It has been sixty years since The College of Design started as the School of Design in 1948- beginning with two programs- architecture and landscape architecture. Three years later industrial design was added, followed by graphic design and an arts program later. More Below The Fold
Renovation Right: The Circle House by Cannon Architects
Click Image for Slideshow [Photography: JWest Productions] Welcome to The Circle: a small looped residential pocket in the Bloomsbury subdivision of the Five Points Neighborhood. Our subject is a 2004 renovation to a 1930’s bungalow that makes a striking contemporary addition to the rear of the house, almost completely hidden from the street.
RBC Plaza Tower Tops Out - Adds Spire
The spire was added this morning to the top of the RBC Centura Bank Tower in Downtown Raleigh. This means that the building has officially reached its tallest point of 538 feet. Now the fun part (infill) begins. Click through for slideshow.
2008 AIA Triangle Design Awards
The Triangle Chapter of the AIA North Carolina held its annual Design Awards Banquet and Lecture last week. Robert Hull, who is nationally renowned for his regionalist architecture with Miller Hull Partnership, chaired the awards jury and gave the lecture Tuesday night in Downtown Raleigh’s Warehouse District. Click through for slideshows and project descriptions of this year’s best architecture in the Triangle.
AIA Triangle Awards Banquet and Lecture
The past year has been an interesting one for the new Contemporary Art Museum in Downtown Raleigh. Proposals were made for a new complex just before the condo boom slowed down. Money was tight, so they decided to have a benefit party at a mall? All that said, tonight, CAM will host it’s first event, The AIA-Triangle Awards Banquet and Lecture, in years at its current location in the warehouse district. The public is invited, so bring your best black outfit and check out some of the best architecture in the region.
Renovation Right: 1014 West Cabarrus
Click Image for Slideshow This renovation of a historic structure in historic Boylan Heights, at the western edge of Downtown Raleigh, lies just north of the Dorothea Dix property. Renovated by Alphin Design/Build, the modifications were made under a watchful eye from the Raleigh Historic Districts Commission. Teaching modern and historic to play nice and share…
LEED Gold Visitor Center by Raleigh Architect, Frank Harmon
Merchant’s Millpond State Park is in Gatesville North Carolina, where construction is underway for a new visitor center designed by the studio of Frank Harmon, Architect in Raleigh. The structure will aim for LEED Gold certification, and will mark the first instance of a LEED certified building for North Carolina Parks and Recreation. More…
Downtown Raleigh Home Tour - Save the Date
Want a chance to see inside many historical homes, condos and other nicely designed (or decorated) abodes in Downtown Raleigh? May 17th will be your chance. It will be held on the same weekend as Artsplosure, and there is usually a good amount of people downtown for this Saturday event. Tickets are available for $10.
Klingons Angered by Stolen Bridge Design
Angered by the inappropriate usage of their ceremonial bridge design, a Klingon battalion has taken over the Raleigh I-440 greenway bridge. The group is armed and will not allow any afternoon joggers to pass. Read more
Ronald Glasser Speaking Tonight at UUFR
Dr. Ronald Glasser was on The State of Things last week and has been speaking over the past couple of days in various venues in the area. Glasser was a medic in the Vietnam War and has a good amount of stories to tell.
Hue Raleigh Material Mockup
As mentioned last week, Hue Raleigh has set up a sales office on the West end of Martin Street as construction continues on the condo building. To continue the triangulation of Hue’s presence in the West End, they have also been building a material mock-up just west of the train tracks on Hargett Street, just down the hill from Sidetrack Brewpub and Bloomsbury Estates.
Renovation Right: House Addition by Kenneth E Hobgood Architects
Does the house in the above photo look like a good tear-down candidate? Many Raleigh residents might think so, but not homeowners John and Betty Aldridge, who took a more patient and respectful approach to expanding their living situation. More…Click Image for Slideshow
Contemporary Modernist House on Lake Boone Trail
You’ve seen it, being built in the past couple of years along Lake Boone Trail, near the intersection of I440. Designed by…
Clarence E. Lightner Public Safety Center Pre-Design
Click Image for Slideshow The Clarence E. Lightner Public Safety Center will combine the City Police and Fire Departments, Emergency Communications and Operations, Traffic Control, Information Technology and Data, Sheriff Dispatch, Building Maintenance and Credit Union Offices all into one building. Details…
Campbell University Selects Architects for Downtown Raleigh Law School
Two architecture firms have been selected to develop Campbell University’s new law school in downtown Raleigh. The project will be a renovation of and addition to the Hillsborough Place office building.
Raleigh Wide Open Three to Open Raleigh Convention Center
Fayetteville Street was reopened to car traffic in late summer of 2006. Downtown Raleigh has not been the same since. This celebration was titled Raleigh Wide Open and estimates say that between 60,000 and 70,000 people attended the street festival. A year later, Raleigh Wide Open Part Two celebrated the year anniversary of the inaugural event. Not much had changed on Fayetteville Street in that first year, but the crowds still came. In September of 2008, almost exactly two years after Fayetteville Street reopened, the city will celebrate the opening of the long awaited Raleigh Convention Center. The title of this celebration? You guessed it, Raleigh Wide Open III and “It’s going to be the biggest party our community has ever had,” Mayor Charles Meeker said.
Stuff Downtown Raleigh Likes: Warehouses
1When looking at the history and current state of downtown Raleigh, there is no doubt that it likes warehouses. It just can’t get enough of them. Downtown Raleigh even has a district called “The Warehouse District.” Then again, don’t most cities have “warehouse districts”? They do IF they haven’t torn all the warehouses down to make room for stucco laced condos or big box retail. Red clay makes up most of the soil in the midlands of North Carolina. Bricks are made of red clay. And what are warehouses made of? Yes, that’s right, brick. Warehouses embody history and we love history. Therefore, deductive logic states that Downtown Raleigh must celebrate its warehouses.
Sarah Susanka at 1880 Hall and on WUNC
The Not So Big House. The Not So Big Life. These are phrases as well as concepts that are logical in preparation for downsizing your life and lowering your carbon footprint. Sarah Susanka has books published with the both as titles and both have become best sellers. She will bring her ideas and thoughts to The Longview Center next Tuesday for a discussion on how to make your life better, not bigger. Also, just in time for her appearance, WUNC’s The State of Things re-aired an interview with Susanka yesterday.
RBC Centura Headquarters, Plaza Condominiums: Mixed-Use Project Reflects Downtown Raleigh Context
Any poetic qualities of the new RBC Plaza come out here, on the Boylan Bridge at twilight: the building’s ability to mirror it’s surroundings is becoming evident as the glass sheathing rises up towards the spire, reflecting the sunset in an otherwise darkening lineup of familiar downtown Raleigh buildings.
