ARCHCLUB trip 2009

We've begun plans for this year's Architecture Club trip at school to visit Philadelphia, PA. Among the possible destinations in/near: Vanna Venturi house - Robert Venturi Guild house - Rovert Venturi Esherick house - Louis Kahn Fisher house - Louis Kahn Richards Medical Research - Louis Kahn PA Academy of Art - Frank Furness Also a walking tour by the Center for Architecture. More details to follow. ARKTEK

NCSBDC 2009 Update

We had an opportunity to visit the site of this year's NC Sustainable Building Design Competition last Saturday and found it quite helpful. The insight into the needs of the people who'll be living in the multi-family residential building, as well as the requirements of the development/maintainance company, forced me to re-assess the progress my team and I had made. This week has seen good progress with us taking the best points of our different individual schemes and meshing those into a cohesive approach while taking into account the information we learned from the site visit which will help us modify our ideas to conform more to what the developer and clients needs are. About seven or eight weeks remain. ARKTEK

Local Anniversary Getaway

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I've mentioned the Proximity Hotel in Greensboro, NC before, and I have visited on a few occassions: once with a class field trip for a tour of the hotel and once for a kick-off meeting of the local USGBC chapter.

My wife and I stayed there this past weekend as a joint Christmas gift from my parents (they kept the kids for us too)/Anniversary getaway (our 10th).

We had a great time; enjoyed the hotel and the food from the whole weekend (Fourth Street Filling Station in Winston-Salem for dinner Friday night, Solaris in Greensboro for a drink and an appetizer Saturday evening, then on to Print Works Bistro for dinner. Brunch Sunday morning at McCoul's.)

I have a few more photos in the Set from the Proximity on my Flickr page--added to the existing set from the class field trip.