Our office reopens Monday in a limited capacity! We are thankful for the leadership of our governor, Roy Cooper, through this very trying time. We hope that you and yours are safe, happy, and healthy. Lots of announcements below as summer begins!
Brittany and Jazz!
We are excited to announce that Brittany Siegert has joined our office full-time after two years of internships! And, this summer, Jasmeen Kaur has joined us as an intern! Brittany and Jazz are both former students from the NCSU School of Architecture who did incredible work in the studio setting. They both have incredible graphic and leadership abilities, and we are looking forward to further cultivating their natural talents for architecture in our office. Learn more about them here!RuMo
Our team is in the final stages of preparing for construction on the Russell Moore Residence (aka RuMo). Construction documents wrapped up earlier this month, and we will hopefully start demo of an existing house on the site in the next couple of weeks. We are excited to be working with the wonderful people at John C. Sanders & Company, who also built the Stimmel Residence and Clark Court.BoSa
Construction is about to begin for a new house we have designed on Prince Drive in Raleigh! Situated on a semi-wooded suburban lot, the modest exterior of this home gives way to dynamic interiors with an intimate relationship to exterior gathering spaces. A large light monitor washes the stucco fireplace wall with north light. A wall made entirely of millwork organizes the kitchen, dining, and bar areas, and an indoor climbing wall on the second floor is visible from the street! We are thrilled to watch this project come to life with the help of Arrowhead Building Co.Construction Update
Work continues on several of our houses across the Triangle. One of our favorite parts in building the process is documenting small vignettes that materialize during the installation of finishes. These vignettes represent the culmination of hard work, while still allowing space to hope for what is yet to come! This month we’ve been tracking the layering of roof planes at Crane Fly, the installation of the steel portal at House BC, the skylight at the Lewis Residence, and the stone wall at Morgan Creek. We can’t wait to share more of these moments as these projects finish up this fall.NCSU
This semester at the NCSU College of Design took an unexpected turn after Spring Break due to the COVID-19 outbreak, with all courses moving to remote learning. Vince, Jake, Zach and Matt were teaching studios in the first three years of the architecture curriculum and managed to transition to on-line teaching and critique. The students, to their credit, responded very well! Of course there were a number of aspects of face-to-face teaching that were impossible to replace, but the students worked hard and produced very good work nonetheless. Kudos to the leadership at the College, and especially to Architecture School Head, David Hill for guiding the faculty and students through this challenging time!
Book of the Month – “Bird by Bird”
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird was written in 1995 and remains relevant, even now, in its 25th year. It is a book specifically about life and writing, but similarities between writing and most creative pursuits allow the book to enjoy a much wider reach. The title speaks to an anecdote from Anne’s childhood about undoing paralysis brought on by the intimidation of something that is seemingly impossible. It is a serious and lighthearted read for anyone, especially in this “great pause,” where sometimes all we can do is take it day by day, or bird by bird.
Cheers.
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