Archive for the 2017 Award Winners Category

Architect: GenslerProject Location: Raleigh, NCProject Completion Date: April, 2016 Short Description: What was once a storage facility for dishes and dining ware has been reimagined as a work and social space for a local investment firm. Located on a hilltop overlooking downtown Raleigh, the 50-year-old building has been

Architect: ThoughCraft ArchitectsProject Location: Chapel Hill, NCProject Completion Date: December, 2016 Short Description: The design creates a central living room within the landscape. With floor to ceiling glass either side, the room may be fully opened to the meadow for inside/outside living. This is analogous to the southern

Architect: Clark NexsenProject Location: Durham, NCProject Completion Date: August, 2015 Short Description: Described as “fortress-like” by students, Edens Quad was the least desirable place to live on campus. A series of strategies were developed for reviving the quad, creating a vibrant residential community connected to and engaged with

Architect: in situ studioProject Location: Raleigh, NCProject Completion Date: 2016 Short Description: Ocotea is a renovation, demolition, and addition project near downtown Raleigh. The existing house was designed by an architect and built in 1959. Over the years, the house had been serially and poorly renovated, yielding dark,

Architect: Szostak Design Inc. Project Location: Durham, NCProject Completion Date: Oct., 2016 Short Description: The Brinegar House is sited on the golf course in Durham’s historic Hope Valley neighborhood. The design respects its context and also reflects our client’s vision for a modern house with space to enjoy

Architect: Cluck Design CollaborativeProject Location: Charlotte, NCProject Completion Date: 2016 Short Description: Nestled in NODA’s historic fabric, Haberdish embodies our focus on detail, and creative problem solving. Just as the chefs serve ethical and local, southern inspired food, we designed the space to enhance the preexisting structure and

Architect: Clark NexsenProject Location: Asheville, NCProject Completion Date: June, 2016 Short Description: The Lower School consists of a renovated existing facility, designed in 1958 by Asheville modernist Bertram King, and an addition containing administrative offices and a multipurpose library. The addition establishes a new face for the school,

Architect: Don KranbuehlProject Location: Raleigh, NCProject Completion Date: March, 2013 Short Description: This adaptive reuse project transforms a typical suburban colonial house into a dwelling that is open, naturally day lit, and engaged with the landscape, garden, and sky. Located on a steep forested corner lot, reforming the

Architect:Perkins+WillProject Location: Raleigh, NCProject Completion Date: — Short Description: There is power and truth in what lies beneath the surface.  The concept draws inspiration from the subterranean root system of the mighty oak tree, which draws a parallel to North Carolina’s rich history that has depended greatly on