October 12, 2007
  2007 Award Winners Showcase North Carolina’s Design Excellence
AIA North Carolina presented its annual design and chapter awards at the chapter’s 2007 Design Awards Banquet, September 14. More than 150 AIA members and their guests gathered to honor the 10 award-winning projects selected from a field of 105 total entries. This year’s award-winning projects evidence the depth and scope of AIA members’ design experience in a celebration of physical form. From a light and open upscale restaurant interior to a colorful and graphically expressive African-American Cultural Center, this year’s awards recipients represent much of the finest work produced by AIA North Carolina architects in 2007.

Inspired by the Flag
Fort McHenry’s new visitor center will lift all eyes to the Star Spangled Banner
GWWO Inc./Architects of Baltimore recently unveiled plans for a new 17,200 square-foot visitor center for the Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine in Baltimore Harbor. The graceful new building, scheduled to begin construction in 2009, takes its inspiration and curved shape from the defiant American flag that flew over the fort and survived the 25-hour British bombardment during the War of 1812—the Star Spangled Banner.

New Alex Haley Interpretive Center Highlights Life and Work of Noted Author
After years on the drawing board, the Alex Haley House and Museum designed by Louis R. Pounders, FAIA, of Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects (ANF Architects) has begun construction of a new interpretive center, situated just behind the best-selling author’s boyhood home in Henning, Tenn. The center will provide interpretive education, interactive exhibits, and artifacts from Haley’s life set in an engaging facility design that spotlights the setting where Haley first heard the family stories that sparked his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Roots: Saga of an American Family.

 

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