Category Archive: architecture

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: 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+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: 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

B+D5: Hammer & Pencil

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Mark your calendars for the next installment of Beer+Design.  We have honed the lineup and are pleased to bring you a variety of perspectives on the topic of “design-build.”

B+D4: re:4m design build

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  Prior to spreading her design wings with Ben, Gwen Murray worked with the now historic Kytin Design and Fabrication in San Francisco. Some of their work can be seen here, here, and… Continue reading

B+D4: ecoMOD’s John Quale

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John Quale’s ecoMOD team designed & built this home in conjunction with Habitat for Humanity not far from their previous builds in Charlottesville. Built between 2008 and 2010, the THRU house comes the… Continue reading

B+D4: re:4m

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  Gwen and Ben Murray’s re:4m design build, featured in R Home Magazine’s January/February 2013 edition, presents environmentally and internationally-Richmond informed projects, balanced by a few good British pints. Educated at VMI, Virginia… Continue reading

B+D4: John Quale

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What are they doing in there? John Quale heads UVA’s ecoMOD and ecoREMOD initiatives. Maybe you’ve swung a hammer with them. If not, think economy, ecology, modular, modern, regenerate, reframe. John recently published… Continue reading

Wolf Ackerman

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Hubba hubba. See more at Beer + Design 3: Get Outta Here. February 6th, hey that’s today! 5:30pm, Storefront for Community Design – 205 E. Broad Street.

Fred Wolf and Dave Ackerman

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Wolf Ackerman. In their own words: Our approach to design is shaped by our belief that architecture celebrates function and has the power to elevate the spirit. Prepare yourself for a tectonic gift when… Continue reading

What does Thom White see?

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A shirtless fellow carrying his parcles up Hull Street, eagerly eyeing a pizza joint? A member of the 2011 Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects Emerging Leaders in Architecture class, Thom White… Continue reading

Nelly Kate + Enric Miralles?

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  How often have you read a quote from a non-Frank Lloyd Wright architect on an artist/musician’s website? How about the great land/arch/time imaginings of Enric Miralles?  Nelly Kate brings cross-genre creativity to… Continue reading

Wolf Ackerman’s Hughes addition

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Fred Wolf and Dave Ackerman break the contextual constraints with honorable design decisions and thoughtfully integrated spaces. Hear more of their architectural meanderings at Beer + Design 3: Get Outta Here,  February 6th, about… Continue reading