Archive for the Design Award Winners Archive Category

Architect: Weinstein Friedlein Architects (visit website) Location: Durham, NC 100 Word Description: Twenty-four households pooled resources to purchase a half-acre site in downtown and pursue a dream. They envisioned a shared multifamily environment that would be more sustainable than their scattered suburban homes. They hoped to reduce their consumption of resources

Architect: Perkins+Will (visit website) Location: Atlanta, GA 100 Word Description: The design of the Center is driven by the idea of creating a Space for Action. This concept is inspired by great urban spaces from around the world that are synonymous with historic civil and human rights events such as the National

Architect: Gensler (visit website) Location: Charlotte, NC 100 Word Description: Founded in 2011, Barringer Construction has built a reputation in Charlotte for quality and craftsmanship. But these creative masters of construction management had grown too big for their space. What they needed was a new home, one that would allow them

Architect: Szostak Design, Inc. (visit website) Location: Raleigh, NC 100 Word Description: This multi-phase, $3 million project begun in 2011 consists of a series of additions and renovations to the Raleigh campus of the Capitol Broadcasting Company, which houses their corporate headquarters, sales and marketing division and broadcast

Architect: Gensler (visit website) Location: Raleigh, NC 100 Word Description: This project re-imagines a brutalist concrete box as a light-filled, gallery-like showroom for furniture and an inviting workplace environment for one of Raleigh’s oldest companies. By removing ” and recycling ” the majority of existing finishes, a clean

Architect: Smith Sinnett (visit website) Location: Albemarle, NC 100 Word Description: The Boathouse sits on the edge of a bank at the confluence of the Yadkin, Pee Dee, and Uwharrie Rivers within Morrow Mountain State Park. Due to the archeological significance of the park, the boathouse was designed

Architect: LS3P Associates (visit website) Location: Wilmington, NC 100 Word Description: The expanded North American headquarters for this German manufacturer tailors a German aesthetic to an American workplace.  The addition maximizes the constrained site and strict budget, with clean lines and modernist design. The result is crisp, contemporary,

Architect: BBH Design (visit website) Location: Raleigh, NC 100 Word Description: The design concept of the first parking deck on WTCC’s Northern LEED Campus is “filtered gatewayâ€. This idea sets a precedent for a future phase 2 parking structure that will complete the gateway in the densely wooded

Architect: Cline Design (visit website) Location: Raleigh, NC 100 Word Description: Replacing The Salvation Army’s inadequate facility in downtown Raleigh, the Judy D. Zelnak Center of Hope is a LEED-certified, adaptive reuse of the Edwards & Broughton Printing Company building, originally constructed in 1956. Benefitting the community by

Architect: Odell Associates (visit website) Location: Fletcher, North Carolina 100 Word Description: The Putsch Group’s new 13,000 SF headquarters, “the Machine in the Field,” is designed to embody the client’s expertise in producing industrial machinery for their North American operations.  The addition creates a fresh identity for the