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November 25, 2009 |
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Our friends at Triangle Modernist Houses — a Raleigh nonprofit documenting and celebrating the region's amazing collection of modern homes — are going to the movies this winter with four architect-oriented films at Cary's Galaxy Cinema.
The scheduled films and dates are:
Thurs., Jan. 14: Ayn Rand's classic The Fountainhead
Thurs., Feb. 18: The romantic drama The Lake House, starring Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock
Thurs., Mar. 18: Infinite Space, a new documentary feature about visionary genius John Lautner
Thurs., Apr. 22: Visual Acoustics, a documentary on architectural photographer Julius Shulman
(date rescheduled from December)
Showtime for all movies is 7:00 pm. Advance tickets are $7.95 each, or $23.95 for the four-movie series.
Go to www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/pnc to buy your tickets and TMH will make a donation to Preservation North Carolina for each purchase.
Tell your friends! And save us some popcorn.
www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/pnc
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November 18, 2009 |
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Developers seeking to rezone the 1958 Commencement House property needed six votes Tuesday night, but they only got four. The result is a brief reprieve for the innovative collaborative design project by Woman's College students.
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November 11, 2009 |
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It is 1958 and a house designed by Woman's College students and architect Edward Loewenstein has just opened to acclaim in Greensboro. Fast-forward to 2009 and the Commencement House — dismissed as nothing more than a student home ec project — is slated for demolition.
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June 30, 2008 |
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Good contemporary architecture, always a precious resource, is often a victim of the rush to replace.
Benjamin Briggs, executive director at Preservation Greensboro, describes the challenges—and opportunities—in protecting the Gate City's recent past.
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January 28, 2008 |
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George Smart Jr.'s website, Triangle Modernist Houses, is a guide to homes by more than fifty architects, many associated with the NC State University School of Design. Development threatens many of these one-of-a-kind buildings, and now, as Smart says, is the time to act to preserve them.
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