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Bachelor of Architecture alumnus Curt Fentress’s firm Fentress Architects was named number one in The Zweig Letter “Hot Firm” List. The Zweig Letter Hot Firm List recognizes both small and large firms for their successes. To read more visit: http://bit.ly/8ZsjMI

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Each year, the Design Guild - a body of alumni and friends in the design community - hosts a reception honoring College of Design scholarship recipients and their sponsors. This year’s gathering held Nov. 5 in the Belk Rotunda in Brooks Hall involved a record turnout and featured a visit by NC State University Chancellor [...]

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Last week, Blue Cross / Blue Shield of North Carolina announced a major initiative to attack the obesity problem in the state - and the NC State University College of Design is a part of the fight.
Shape NC brings together the College’s Natural Learning Initiative (NLI) with two other high profile health promotion partners - [...]

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“Construction is the medium through which architecture is made,” states part of the description of Prof. of Architecture Patrick Rand’s course on Architectural Construction Systems at the School of Architecture at the NC State University College of Design.
Getting to know the building blocks of structures was literally the goal of that course’s annual masonry design [...]

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Matthew Gilbride’s “Elements” provides lighting, heating, and cooling features in a scalable package.

Those with an eye for design know how to spot patterns.

One obvious pattern: yet another industrial design student from the College of Design has placed in a prestigious product design competition.

The Design Lab Competition sponsored by Electrolux asked design students to imagine [...]

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Associate Professor of Art + Design Vita Plume was one of 18 artists in North Carolina to receive the 2010-2011 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship Awards. Artists receive a $10,000 fellowship to “deepen their work and explore new ground.”

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Architecture student Christopher Pietsch recently presented his work in the Ninth Annual NC State University Undergraduate Summer Research Symposium at the McKimmon Center. Pietsch won a $1500 undergraduate research grant to study craft in prefabricated architecture. As part of his research, he traveled to San Francisco to visit the offices of Anderson Anderson Architects where [...]

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Graphic Design alumna Nikki Orellana (’04) won an Emmy award for Outstanding Achievement in Motion Title and Graphic Design. Orellana created the opening graphics for the PBS cooking show Avec Eric. You can view the video at: http://eater.com/archives/2010/06/29/avec-eric-wins-emmy-for-main-title-design.php The show appears on Sundays at 3 p.m. on PBS.
Orellana was also in the Top 50 list for [...]

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Architecture Alumnus Curt Fentress (’72) is this year’s recipient of the Jefferson Award and was featured in Architectural Record magazine. Fentress will be the world’s first airport design architect honored with the Thomas Jefferson Public Architecture award.

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AIA Triangle Homes Tour announces the winning architects and award homes that will be featured October 2, 2010. Congratulations to: Angerio Design, Bizios Architect, Cherry Huffman, Ellen Cassilly Architect, Frank Harmon Architect, John Reese, Studio B Architecture, Tina Govan Architect and Vernacular Studio.
Each of the featured architects selected by the visiting Austin AIA Jury demonstrates positive [...]

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Congratulations to Industrial Design student Steven Ryan Valenziano for winning the Undergraduate Research Award (one of thirty awards for the university). Steven presented his work on Universal Design Cookware: Making Cooking Safer and Easier for Everyone at 19th Annual NC State Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium. Steven received his award at the Sigma Xi Scientific [...]

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The students in Assistant Professor of Architecture Paul Battaglia’s ARC232: Introduction to Structures and
Materials course participated in the CCMA/NCMA Blockfest and Student Design Competition on Saturday, April 10, 2010. The event was held at the Southern Ideal Home Show at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds.
The event was sponsored by Carolinas Concrete Masonry Association (CCMA), [...]

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Left to right: Matt Tomasulo, Rebecca Myers, Daria Khramtsova, Jeff Pleshek, and Maria Papiez. (photo by Melissa Jacobs, Urban Land Institute)
A joint team of design graduate students from the NC State College of Design and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill claimed the top spot in this year’s Urban Land Institute (ULI) Gerald D. [...]

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Industrial Design students under the direction of Associate Professor of Industrial Design Bong-Il Jin have placed first, second, third and fifth in the New York International Automobile Show. The students will be invited to accept their scholarships and give a brief statement about their projects at the World Traffic Safety Symposium on Friday, April 9, [...]

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GREG HATEM IS A SPARK, A CATALYST, A FORCE BEHIND THE RESURGENCE OF DOWNTOWN RALEIGH. As founder and managing partner of Empire Properties, Greg has guided the company’s portfolio of projects, consisting of more than 40 rehabilitation projects with 550,000 square feet of retail and office space which have truly enhanced not only the [...]

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