UNC School of the Arts has taken another step in the long-awaited renovation of the Stevens Center by selecting Winston-Salem s Frank L. Blum Construction Co. and W.C. Construction Co. as
UNC School of the Arts launched on Thursday the long-awaited renovation of the Stevens Center by announcing the design team for the multiphase project.
UNC School of the Arts launched on Thursday the long-awaited renovation of the Stevens Center by announcing the design team for the multiphase project.
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The next phase of redevelopment efforts at Charlotte s Camp North End will feature concepts from four local Black architects.Their designs incorporate the site s current elements as well as the city s history.
Skyscrapers. High-rise apartment buildings. Announcements about corporate headquarters moving in. It’s easy to focus on what’s new in Charlotte.
So easy, in fact, that sometimes the city’s history can sometimes get drowned out by the rush to the future.
Camp North End is one of several sites across the city going in a different direction. To a degree, it’s new. And it’s certainly hip. But it’s also old, a former industrial complex in the shadow of uptown now teeming with food stalls, art studios and gathering spaces. The reclamation project doesn’t shy from its manufacturing past, with elements of its history proudly displayed.
Licensed and aspiring Black architects selected to design facades for new retail pavilions at Camp North End.
Clockwise from top left: Marcus Thomas, Melanie Reddrick, Hasheem Halim and Aleah Pullen.
By Katrina Louis
January 29, 2021
Two dozen candidates answered the call in December when New York-based ATCO Properties & Management announced that it wanted Black architects, and emerging Black architects, to be part of the next development phase of Camp North End.
Twenty-four submissions for the design competition were narrowed to 10, and on Wednesday, four winners were announced.
Two licensed architects Marcus Thomas and Melanie Reddrick and two architectural designers Aleah Pullen and Hasheem Halim will have their designs grace the exterior facades of four new retail pavilions at Camp North End.