The year brought a lot of big news in real estate, construction and development in Charlotte, including the conviction of Mayor Patrick Cannon in a development-related bribery scandal; a continued apartment construction boom; announcements and groundbreakings for the first office ...
Tagged with: Boggs Paving reframing charlotte
Read More »Voting will end Sept. 30 for entries in The Mecklenburg Times’ architectural challenge, Reframing Charlotte. Earlier this year, The Meck Times challenged area architects to create a uniquely “Charlotte-style” house, drawing on the region’s history, culture, natural resources, climate and ...
Tagged with: reframing charlotte
Read More »
Jim Gleeson’s intention when creating his vision of a uniquely Charlotte-style home was to design a house adaptable enough to fit into the region’s existing neighborhoods while being on the forefront of energy efficient technology and environmentally holistic construction. “The ...
Tagged with: reframing charlotte
Read More »
When Jennifer Underwood looked for inspiration for a modern “Charlotte-style” house, she looked to a neighborhood that no longer exists, cleared away decades ago from Uptown’s southern Second Ward. The Brooklyn neighborhood was the community center for the area’s black ...
Tagged with: reframing charlotte
Read More »
When we issued our challenge to area architects to look to the Queen City’s culture, history, natural resources and climate for inspiration in creating a “Charlotte-style” house, Jim Kirby and Rick Kazebee dug deep. And looked up. The pair – ...
Tagged with: reframing charlotte
Read More »
Ray Sheedy and Cale Watts have made a 20-year career out of putting a modern twist on traditional houses. The pair, under the name Sheedy Watts Design and with the help of office-mate Kenya, a German Shepherd, has “built a ...
Tagged with: reframing charlotte
Read More »
Who knew that walking just a few steps could take you from Independence Square to the N.C. Music Factory? In “Queen Sophia’s Victorian,” however, bridging that distance will require you to step down a few stairs. Michael Kazak, an intern ...
Tagged with: reframing charlotte
Read More »
Editor’s Note: The Mecklenburg Times, in partnership with the American Institute of Architects Charlotte section, asked area architects to create a suburban home that represents Charlotte, drawing on history, culture, natural resources and climate. It was to have a construction ...
Tagged with: reframing charlotte
Read More »
Beginning in the next issue and running for about a month – and available at any time on our website – you can see the results of imaginative work by local architects, to whom we threw down a challenge: Design ...
Tagged with: architecture reframing charlotte
Read More »
Mecklenburg Times: News for Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties Real Estate, Development, Construction, and Community News in the Charlotte area and throughout Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties
