Author Archive

B+D6: Amy Black

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  Huddled above the Cary Street glam promenaders, Amy Black  harkens us back to an image of old Richmond. Before we were the bike racers, the river town of the year, the flying squirrels, in… Continue reading

B+D6: Briget Ganske

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Briget Ganske pulls you quietly into a space, an opportunity, or an adventure. Through her photography and films, she invokes your senses and your own remembered experiences to take part in a way antithetical… Continue reading

B+D6: Tall Tales

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Join us for an evening of storytelling and embellishment.  Our friends at the Visual Arts Center open their art-filled home and the good folks from Three Brothers Brewing pour us a few.

thank you, beer gods

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Never get lost or thirsty again. The Brew Trail website’s got us covered.

B+D5 is in the books.

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Dan Zimmerman from Alloy Workshop, presenting to a capacity crowd at B+D5: Hammer & Pencil.  Thanks to John White and Heather Grutzius from 510, as well as Marie and Keith Zawistowksi from OnSite Architecture… Continue reading

B+D 5: Hammer & Pencil

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You’re the only one not here. Join us, you deserve it…  

B+D 5: You’ve got to move it…

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  to Balliceaux for Beer+Design 5: Hammer & Pencil at 5:30pm.  203 N. Lombardy Street in our River City.

B+D 5: Alloy’s Dan Zimmerman!

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  The good: We get Dan Zimmerman tonight of Charlottesville design build firm Alloy Workshop! Woohooo!  He’s ripe for this discussion – check out Alloy’s website! The bad: We don’t get Brian Barker.… Continue reading

B+D 5: Balliceaux

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  This is not your beautiful house – it’s Balliceaux!  Join us in the back room for Beer + Design 5: Hammer & Pencil today at 5:30 pm. 203 N Lombardy Street. And… Continue reading

B+D 5: 510_

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Heather Grutzius and John White’s 510_ visions include not just the process of how they make, but how that creative process looks, how it feels to manipulate the tools of their trade. They… Continue reading

B+D5: Brian Barker

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Brian Barker’s creative talents outsize the theatah. He’s talented in advertising, creative identity, photography, and he apparently knows about slime. Find out more tomorrow at Beer+Design 5: Hammer & Pencil.  5:30pm, September 18th at… Continue reading

B+D 5: Keith and Marie Zawistowski

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Keith and Marie Zawistowski’s design/build LAB students help guide trusses into place at the Covington Farmer’s Market. There’s more to this story to be told at Beer+Design 5: Hammer & Pencil  at Balliceaux’s… Continue reading

B+D5: 510_

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  What are they doing in there? Collaborating with former B+D presenters Tektonics Design Group and fellow B+D5 presenters Keith and Marie Zawistowski and the VT design/build LAB team. Come here more from… Continue reading

B+D5: Keith and Marie Zawistowski

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Keith and Marie Zawistowski’s design/build LAB at Virginia Tech promotes and architecture of connectivity. Their Clifton Forge Amphitheater project seeks to give a forum to a community who is struggling to embrace tourism as their… Continue reading

B+D5: Balliceaux

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photo by RVA news Balliceaux owners Steve and Lanie Gratz reworked a popular Fan watering hole into a place you’d be proud to take your design-minded out-of-towners. Big sliding door, check. Concrete niches for… Continue reading

B+D5: Brian Barker

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    Brian Barker‘s design realm is a fleeting moment – events, television backdrops, theatrical shows. How does these relatively temporary conditions influence design, where an idea, theme, or emotion must be expressed quickly… Continue reading

B+D5: 510 Spaces

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Heather Grutzius and John White’s studio, 510 Spaces, excel in balancing a mixture of scales within their work. They know when to wear their black architect duds, their canvas work garb, and when… Continue reading

B+D5: Keith and Marie Zawistowski

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Virginia Tech design/build LAB ‘s Keith and Marie Zawistowski work as instructors and architects reaches past the shiny detail and the glossy image. They thrive in calloused-hand projects,  their joints and muscles aching at the end of the… Continue reading