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“From site, client, and experience, Frank Harmon spins a highly specific, easy-living modernism.” - Vernon Mays, Residential Architect magazine

Construction Begins On AIA NC’s New, “Green” Headquarters

Wednesday, December 8th, 2010

Future LEED-Platinum building breaks ground in downtown Raleigh.

December 8, 2010 (RALEIGH, NC) – After two years of planning and waiting for financing, the North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects will finally hold its official, public groundbreaking ceremony for its new headquarters building and design center on Thursday, December 9, at 11:30 a.m. The building will be constructed on an oddly shaped, previously unused lot on Peace and Wilmington streets between Peace College and the NC Government Complex.

Designed by Frank Harmon Architect PA after the firm won a professional competition for the project in 2008, the AIA NC Center for Architecture & Design will be “a modern building with a green heart,” as Frank Harmon, FAIA, likes to call it.

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Tags: AIA, AIA Center for Architecture & Design, AIA NC, green architecture, modern architecture, sustainable design
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The Huffington Post: In North Carolina, A Gutsy Move

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

December 2, 2010

By J. Michael Welton

When it breaks ground on its new headquarters building in downtown Raleigh on Dec. 9, the North Carolina chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA NC) also will be deploying three essential tools needed to scale this cliff-like economic downturn known as the Great Recession.

They are vision, courage and leadership.

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Tags: AIA, AIA NC, architecture, David Crawford, Frank Harmon, green architecture, Raleigh, sustainable design
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Raleigh Art Architecture & Urbanism.com: Update Regarding AIA NC Center for Architecture & Design

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

March 1, 2010

Ever since Frank Harmon won the competition for the AIANC Center for Architecture & Design in January 2008, not much had been made public about how the project was progressing. Even some of our sources close to the project seemed skeptical that the project would be built soon. Given the current state of the field and economy in general, it would have been understandable if the AIA had decided to put the project on hold. It might not have sent a positive message to its members, but understandable nevertheless.

Fortunately for us, that’s not the case. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Tags: AIA, AIA NC, downtown Raleigh, downtown Raleigh development, NC architects, NC architecture
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Architects+Artisans: David vs. Goliath in Downtown Raleigh

Monday, January 25th, 2010

by J. Michael Welton

Soon, on a site in downtown Raleigh that architect Frank Harmon puckishly likens to the shape of a pork chop, the North Carolina chapter of the AIA will break ground for a slim new Center for Architecture and Design.

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AIA NC Center for Architecture & Design as seen from Peace Street.

Tags: AIA, AIA NC, architecture, design, downtown Raleigh, Raleigh NC
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