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Raleigh Wide Open – Convention Center Opening

Raleigh Wide Open 3 happened on schedule, despite the threat of Tropical Storm Hanna. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this annual festival was the grand opening of the City’s new Convention Center. The building occupies the space of a much smaller convention building, that was built in the late seventies and demolished in 2006.

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AIA NC Center for Architecture and Design

A little bit of news on the Architecture front. Blue Lime Studio has released some new rendered images of the upcoming American Institute of Architects NC Headquarters building in Raleigh. The project was part of a statewide competition which brought in 69 proposals from across North Carolina to design a new headquarters for the AIA. […]

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Rock You Like a Hurricane

In an interesting turn of events, we have a Tropical Storm (expected to return to Hurricane strength soon) Bearing down on the Eastern coastline, and scheduled to show up late Friday and peak sometime Saturday morning.

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Water Management

Dealing with water on our little wooded lot has proven to be quite the bear in the (just under) three years that we’ve been here. After the great flood with Tropical Storm Alberto, we’ve been pretty fortunate to not have any major maintenance issues as a result of it. The only real result of all […]

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