Vinny Petrarca got into design/build because too many of his projects were being shelved. “By the time we’d gone through three meetings with the client and the builder, the costs to build were too high,” he said of his early experience with a respected Raleigh-based firm. So the self-described...
Ambergris Cay in the Turks and Caicos may not be for everyone – but for those who can afford it, it’s unforgettable. The 1,100-acre private island is three miles long and one mile wide, with eight miles of beaches and shoreline. There’s whale-watching at a man-made cove on one end, and world...
Where army officers once imbibed at a private club on their base near Monterey, dyslexic K-8 students now celebrate the use of water at Chartwell School. “They tend to learn in a more experiential way, rather than in a rote manner,” said Bry Sarte, principal at Sherwood Design Engineers of San Francisco,...
Mike Rantilla looked for three years to find the right site for the modern Raleigh home he wanted to design for himself. “There were restrictions and hindrances to a modern building,” he said. “I probably looked at 50 lots, and got close on five of them. But then I would have had to do brick, […]
On a site in downtown Raleigh that architect Frank Harmon likens to the shape of a pork chop, the North Carolina chapter of the AIA soon will break ground for a new Center for Architecture and Design. “It’s on less than an acre, and we placed it parallel to Peace Street,” Harmon says. “It’s...
Jacob Marks is a history major turned furniture maker. He sees similarities between the two fields that may not be obvious to most. “Both require skill, discipline and attention to detail,” he said. “But the design of furniture comes more easily to me than the writing of history.” It shows....
For the past six years, Judith Shatin, professor of music at The University of Virginia, has enjoyed an office in the Stanford White-designed Old Cabell Hall on the Lawn. She has an inspiring view of Jefferson’s Rotunda. “I happened to be sitting in Old Cabell, looking at that beautiful scene, when...
House 6 in Menlo Park is a tactile excursion into the sensuous appeal of concrete. At the heart of the 4,000 square foot home is a hybrid core of concrete and wood framing. While some of its walls are rough, board-formed concrete, others are hyper-smooth and seemingly polished. Still others are articulated...
With Indigo Modern in central Tucson, Rob Paulus Architects has tuned into the concept of easy, stark beauty. Indigo Modern was designed as an environmentally friendly community of 11 single-family homes, each 1,800 square feet, with three bedrooms, two baths, private outdoor space, a common parking...
It may look new, but architect Chad Everhart’s “Farmhouse Redux” is built largely out of recycled materials. He and his wife bought the two-and-a-half acres where it stands near Boone, N.C. – along with an original 1930s-era farmhouse – in 2007. “We looked at it, and it was the cheapest...
