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Built in 1887 and rising eighty-five feet in downtown Raleigh, the AIA Tower, built originally by the Raleigh Water Works, has reopened as headquarters for the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
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2328
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While designing school projects is lucrative for architects, they often must deal with layers of local bureaucracy in completing a project. Elimination of the Department of Public Instruction's Division of School Planning adds to the problem.
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3151
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Lee Nichols Helper Architecture, a Charlotte firm, received the 1996 Kamphoefner Prize. This is the first time a firm and not an individual received the award, which is named for North Carolina State University School of Design founder, Henry Kamphoefner.
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35442
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This legislative report focused on a fiscal fallout, where the construction of new buildings is concerned, taking place with NC universities. Or at least the fallout is being felt by campus constituents paying for buildings that take into account fashion more than function. As the author suggested, paying more for less leads to less in a lot of ways for students covering the exorbitant construction prices of new campus buildings.
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35454
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Offered in detail for this issue’s report was a school bond slated for voter approval. How the impact could be felt: more classroom space not in trailers; newer buildings; more facilities complying with state building codes. Speaking of better building standards, that took a residential tone as local building professionals met for a seminar. Their goals: learn ways to improve their construction quality, so they could offer home buyers higher customer satisfaction.
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35475
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NC's 1995 General Assembly faced elections yields that were a conglomerate of national and local interests. The national and local legislative wish list focused on reforms to taxation, welfare, governmental operations, and bureaucratic operations. NC’s voters sought improvements in their design and construction industries. The item on their wish list: single prime contracts, boasted to be more time and cost efficient than multi-prime contracts.
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1545
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Representative Foyle Hightower, Jr. (D-Anson) introduced a bill in the General Assembly that would repeal Qualification-Based Selection for architectural and engineering services on public projects and require the state to consider bids for such services
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1544
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Ligon B. Flynn received the 1993 Kamphoefner Prize, administered by the North Carolina Architectural Foundation, which goes annually to a NC architect or architectural firm that has made a sustained contribution of excellence to the Modern Movement.
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With over 20,000 new students entering the state's schools systems each year for the next decade, school personnel, local officials, and state legislators are challenged by two issues: the critical need for new school buildings and how to pay for them.
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1843
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has awarded a posthumous fellowship to Turner G. Williams of Raleigh.
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Passage of a state bond issue, and federal funding have facilitated a number of public building projects, including the Joyner Library renovation and addition at East Carolina University.
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2097
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Marvin Malecha has been appointed dean of the School of Design at North Carolina State University. Prior to this he was dean of the College of Environmental Design at California State Polytechnic University.
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5588
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Kenneth Hobgood, AIA, of Raleigh, received the state's most prestigious architectural award for 1997, the Kamphoefner Prize. The award recognizes architects for their continuing contribution to the modern movement in architecture.
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14.Off the Drawing Board by No author given North Carolina Architecture Vol. 44 Issue 2, Spring 1996
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35445
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This article’s topic inspiration: Architect and Architecture Appreciation Week. Ways the profession and products were honored featured a kudos to an energy efficiency project implemented in Johnston County schools. Included as kudos was a Jefferson Memorial Designer award recipient receiving twice told recognition for his impact, John Russell Pope.
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Christos A. Saccopoulos has been named the new head of the Department of Architecture at N.C. State University.
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